Psychiatry: Behavioral Science and Clinical Essentials

This is a new Eedition to the Psychiatry series. It is a companion to Tasman's Psychiatry and it combines current scientific information with more traditional theories regarding mental illness. The book stresses the relationship of traditional theory with scientific findings. It offers numerous tables, charts, boxed information, decision trees, and line drawings.

Emphasises the doctor-patient relationship throughout the text.

Addresses the etiology, pathophysiology, clinical assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of a broad range of psychiatric conditions.

Analyses the comparative benefits and risks of different therapeutic optionsconsidering such factors as medical comorbidity and constitutional, sociocultural, and situational issues.

Details the principles of medical interviewing.

Discusses normal physiological, psychological, and social development across the human life cycle.

Reviews the scientific basis of psychiatry and behavioural science with coverage of learning and memory, behaviour genetics, sleep, brain imaging, the biology of trauma, and more.

Describes significant treatment issues in special populations, including children and adolescents, the elderly, and emergency patients.

Explores a wide spectrum of gender and sexual issues in a chapter written by nationally recognised scientists.

Makes reference easier with numerous tables, charts, decision trees, and line drawings.

Integrates all the categories of psychiatry and behavioural science addressed in Parts I and II of the USMLE.