This concise textbook is ideal for any student or health care professional who needs an authoritative, readable, affordable text that is sharply focused on clinical psychiatry. It contains the most relevant clinical material from the best-selling Kaplan and Sadock's Synopsis of Psychiatry, Tenth Edition and includes updated information on recently introduced psychiatric drugs. The book is DSM-IV-TR compatible and replete with case studies and tables, including DSM-IV-TR tables.

Chapters offer step-by-step guidance on the clinical examination, the psychiatric report, medical assessment of the psychiatric patient, laboratory tests, and signs and symptoms. The major portion of the book covers all psychiatric and substance-related disorders, with special chapters on children, adolescents, and the elderly. Also included are chapters on emergency psychiatry, forensic psychiatry, ethics, and palliative and end-of-life care.

Psychiatric History and Mental Status Examination

Physical Illness and Psychiatric Disorder

Laboratory Tests in Psychiatry

Signs and Symptoms in Psychiatry

Classification in Psychiatry

Psychiatric Rating Scales

Delirium, Dementia, and Amnestic and Other Cognitive Disorders and Mental Disorders Due to a General Medical Condition

Neuropsychiatric Aspects of HIV Infection and AIDS

Substance-Related Disorders

Schizophrenia

Other Psychotic Disorders

Mood Disorders

Anxiety Disorders

Somatoform Disorders

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

Factitious Disorders

Dissociative Disorders

Human Sexuality

Gender Identity Disorder

Eating Disorders

Normal Sleep and Sleep Disorders

Impulse-Control Disorders Not Elsewhere Classified

Adjustment Disorders

Personality Disorders

Psychosomatic Medicine

Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry

Psychiatry and Reproductive Medicine

Relational Problems

Problems Related to Abuse and Neglect

Additional Conditions That May Be a Focus of Clinical Attention

Emergency Psychiatric Medicine

Psychotherapies

Biological Therapies

Child Psychiatry: Assessment, Examination, and Psychological Testing

Mental Retardation

Learning Disorders

Motor Skills Disorder: Developmental Coordination Disorders

Communication Disorders

Pervasive Developmental Disorders

Attention-Deficit Disorders

Disruptive Behavior Disorders

Feeding and Eating Disorders of Infancy or Early Childhood

Tic Disorders

Elimination Disorders

Other Disorders of Infancy, Childhood, and Adolescence

Mood Disorders and Suicide in Children and Adolescents

Anxiety Disorders in Children and Adolescents

Early-Onset Schizophrenia

Adolescent Substance Abuse

Child Psychiatry: Conditions That May Be a Focus of Clinical Attention

Psychiatric Treatment of Children and Adolescents

Special Areas of Interest

Geriatric Psychiatry

Palliative Care and Pain Management

Euthanasia and Physician Assisted Suicide

Clinical-Legal Issues in Psychiatry

Ethics in Psychiatry

Index