Allan Tasman & Jerald Kay 
Psychiatry [EPUB ebook] 

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.

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.

Key features include:

* Coverage of the entire field of psychiatry, from psychoanalysis
to pharmacology and brain imaging, including family relations,
cultural influence and change, epidemiology, genetics and
behavioral medicine

* Clinical vignettes describing current clinical practice in an
attractive design

* Numerous figures and tables that facilitate learning and
comprehension appear throughout the text

* Clear comparisons of the DSM-IV-TR and ICD-10 criteria for easy
understanding in a global context

* Diagnostic and treatment decision trees to help both the novice
and experienced reader

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.

Om författaren

Allan Tasman, Professor and Chairman of the Department of
Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Louisville
School of Medicine, Kentucky, is a Past President of the American
Psychiatric Association and President-Elect of the Pacific Rim
College of Psychiatrists. He is a world-renowned psychiatric leader
and educator and is Secretary for Education of the World
Psychiatric Association, responsible for all of the
association’s worldwide education programmes and
initiatives.

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.