Thoroughly updated for its fifth edition, "Kaplan and Sadock's Pocket Handbook of Clinical Psychiatry" remains a staple for medical students on psychiatric rotations, psychiatric residents, practitioners, and mental health professionals. In an easy-to-scan outline format, this popular quick-reference handbook summarizes the etiology, epidemiology, clinical characteristics, diagnosis, and treatment of all psychiatric disorders in adults and children. Psychopharmacologic principles and prescribing methods are briefly described. The book 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, Ninth Edition".
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1: Classification in Psychiatry 2: Psychiatric History and Mental Status 3: Psychiatric Report and Medical Record 4: Psychiatric Rating Scales 5: Laboratory Tests in Psychiatry 6: Brain Imaging in Psychiatry 7: Delirium and Dementia 8: Amnestic Disorders 9: Mental Disorders Due to a Medical Condition 10: Neuropsychiatric Aspects of HIV and AIDS 11: Alcohol, Opioids, and Other Substance-Related Illnesses 12: Schizophrenia 13: Schizophreniform, Schizoaffective, Delusional, and Other Psychotic Disorders 14: Mood Disorders 15: Anxiety Disorders 16: Somatoform Disorders, Factitious Disorders, and Malingering 17: Dissociative Disorders 18: Sexual Dysfunctions, Paraphilias, and Gender Identity Disorders 19: Eating Disorders 20: Obesity and the Metabolic Syndrome 21: Sleep Disorders 22: Impulse Control Disorders 23: Psychosomatic Disorders 24: Personality Disorders 25: Suicide, Violence, and Other Psychiatric Emergencies 26: Infant, Child, and Adolescent Disorders 27: Geriatric Psychiatry 28: End of Life and Palliative Care 29: Psychotherapy 30: Psychopharmacology and Other Biological Therapies 31: Medication-Induced Movement Disorders 32: Forensic and Ethical Issues in Psychiatry
