Synopsis

Now in its Fourth Edition, this popular quick-reference handbook remains a staple for medical students on psychiatric rotations, psychiatric residents, practitioners, and mental health professionals. In an easy-to-scan outline format, the book summarizes the etiology, epidemiology, clinical characteristics, diagnosis, and treatment of all psychiatric disorders. Coverage has been thoroughly updated with DSM-IV-TR diagnoses and new information on pharmacotherapy.

This edition is replete with DSM-IV-TR and other tables and includes boxed, highlighted Clinical Hints. Each chapter ends with specific page and chapter references to Kaplan and Sadock's Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry, Eighth Edition. Color photographs of psychiatric drugs are also included.