Main description:

The updated edition of this classic book provides the busy clinician, psychiatric resident and medical student with the most up-to-date information on etiology, diagnosis and treatment of psychiatric disorders. The reader is provided with contemporary information and literature supported by a close survey of the field. Several new chapters dealing with new concepts in biology and treatment of mental disorders have been added to complete this expanded edition.

Contents:

Section I Syndromes - Adult

1. The mental status examination
Hagop S. Akiskal ...........................................................................

2. Syndromes of brain dysfunction presenting with cognitive impairment
or behavioral disturbance: delirium, dementia, and mental disorders due
to a general medical condition
Keith Isenberg, Keith Garcia .............................................................

3. The amnestic syndrome
Hillel Grossman ............................................................................

4. Bipolar illness
Paula J. Clayton ...........................................................................

5. Major depressive disorder
David L. Dunner ...........................................................................

6. Schizophrenia
S. Hossein Fatemi .........................................................................

7. Schizoaffective and schizophreniform disorders
William Coryell ............................................................................

8. Delusional disorders
Raymond R. Crowe, Marc-Andre Roy ..................................................

9. Anxiety disorders
Richard Shelton, Aaron J. Hunt .........................................................

10. Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Tanya K. Murphy, Sarah Frazier, Soo-Jeong Kim ....................................

11. Somatoform and dissociative disorders
C. Robert Cloninger, Mehmet Dokucu ..................................................

12. Anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa
Elke Eckert ....................................................................................

13. Antisocial personality disorders
Karen Derefinko, Thomas A.Widiger .....................................................................

14. Alcoholism
James C. Garbutt .............................................................................

15. Drug addiction
Joseph J. Westermeyer, Gihyun Yoon ......................................................

16. Sexual Disorders: Dysfunction, Gender Identity and Paraphilias