This newly updated, popular text for medical students and psychiatric residents is a thorough yet concise guide to the diagnosis and natural history of psychiatric disorders. No other text provides such a lucid, well-documented, and critically sound overview of the major syndromes in psychiatry
This newly updated, popular text for medical students and psychiatric residents is a thorough yet concise guide to the diagnosis and natural history of psychiatric disorders. No other text provides such a lucid, well-documented, and critically sound overview of the major syndromes in psychiatry
An Iowa native, Dr. Carol S. North completed her medical education, internship and residency, postdoctoral fellowship training, and master's degree in psychiatric epidemiology at Washington University in St. Louis. She remained there as a faculty member for 18 years, providing major contributions to patient care, teaching, and research while becoming widely recognized for her research in areas of psychiatric epidemiology. Dr. North serves as Medical Director of the Altshuler Center for Education & Research at Metrocare Services in Dallas, Texas. She holds The Nancy and Ray L. Hunt Chair in Crisis Psychiatry as a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. Dr. North is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and past president of the American Psychopathological Association and the American Academy of Clinical Psychiatrists. Dr. Sean H. Yutzy completed medical school at Eastern Virginia Medical School in 1982, then trained at Washington University in St. Louis for Internship and Residency from 1983-1987. Subsequently, he did a fellowship in Forensic Psychiatry at Case Western Reserve in Cleveland Ohio. Returned to Washington University as faculty for 12 years concentrating on teaching, assessment, research and practice directly related to psychiatric nosology. He then completed 10 years at the University of New Mexico Department of Psychiatry focusing on teaching, assessment and practice directly related to psychiatric nosology. He returned to Washington University to be Professor of Psychiatry, Adjunct in 2011.
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Preface: Looking Forward 1. Evolution of Psychiatric Diagnosis 2. Mood (Affective) Disorders 3. Schizophrenic Disorders 4. Panic Disorder and Phobias 5. Posttraumatic Stress Disorder 6. Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder 7. Eating Disorders 8. Somatization Disorder 9. Antisocial Personality Disorder 10. Borderline Personality Disorder 11. Alcohol Use Disorder 12. Drug Use Disorder 13. Delirium and Dementia (Neurocognitive Disorders) 14. The Psychiatric Evaluation
