Written by well-known and highly regarded experts from around the world, it takes a patient-centered approach making it an indispensable resource for all those involved in the care of patients with psychiatric disorders.
For this new edition, the section on the Neuroscientific Foundations of Psychiatry has been completely revised, with a new author team recruited by Section Editors Jonathan Polan and Eric Kandel. The final section, Special Populations and Clinical Settings, features important new chapters on today’s most urgent topics, including the homeless, restraint and geriatric psychiatry.
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The chapter on Cognitive Behavioral Therapies by Edward Friedman, Michael Thase and Jesse Wright is freely available. Please click on Read Excerpt 2 above to read this superb exposition of these important therapies.
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"Tasman et al. have produced an outstanding book in this third edition of Psychiatry.... This is a fine textbook that will serve educators, at all levels, as a curriculum guide and teaching tool. For practitioners, it is a comprehensive reference that will find great use in any library." (American Journal of Psychiatry, July 2009)
This is the book that the reviewer for American Journal of Psychiatry called extremely user friendly wonderfully conceived and beautifully executed in its previous edition. Updated to reflect today s most urgent topics, this patient–centered two–volume set belongs in every clinician s collection. (Psychiatric Times, June 2009)
"This two–volume work is immense, encyclopedic, and extremely comprehensive. Most general textbooks tend to be outdated and have limited usefulness, but that is not the case with this textbook, edited by eminent leaders in American psychiatric education. For its scope and size, the editors have produced a text of striking quality, summarizing major areas of the psychiatric literature and other related topics.
Subjects are presented in a fair, balanced, and objective manner, with special attention given to science and data." (PsychCRITIQUES, July 2009)
Extensively revised and updated this edition reflects the progress and developments in the field. With 127 chapters and over 400 contributors this book is a truly comprehensive exposition of the specialty of psychiatry. Written by well–known and highly regarded experts from around the world, it takes a patient–centered approach making it an indispensable resource for all those involved in the care of patients with psychiatric disorders. This work is comprehensive it illustrates how quickly the landscape is changing due to our improving understanding of the disease process and advancing technology. Content–wise, it is a higher quality reference than many others used today. (Doodys Book Reviews, December 2008)
Jerald Kay, Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychiatry at Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio, is one of the leading Child Psychiatrists and Psychiatry Educators in the US.
Jeffrey Lieberman, Director of the New York State Psychiatric Institute and Chairman of psychiatry at Columbia University Medical Center, is a leading psychiatric drug researcher with excellent clinical, academic and publishing credentials. He received the Adolf Meyer Award of the American Psychiatric Association in 2007.
Michael B First, Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Columbia University and the Psychiatric Institute of New York, is one of the architects of the DSM-IV-TR classification and is playing a key role in the development of DSM-V.
Mario Maj, Professor of Psychiatry at the Primo Policlinico Universitario in Naples, Italy, has been President of the Italian Psychiatric Association (since 2000); President of the Italian Society of Biological Psychiatry (since 1990); Secretary-General of the Association of European Psychiatrists (2001-2002); Editor of "European Psychiatry" and “World Psychiatry”. He became President of the Association of European Psychiatrists in January 2002 and takes on the Presidency of the World Psychiatric Association in September 2008.
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