Tasman / Kay / Lieberman Psychiatry (2 Volume Set

Volumes 1 and 2)
3. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-119-96540-4
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 2880 Seiten, E-Book

Extensively revised and updated this edition reflects the progressand developments in the field. With 127 chapters and over 400contributors this book is a truly comprehensive exposition of thespecialty of psychiatry.

Written by well-known and highly regarded experts from aroundthe world, it takes a patient-centered approach making it anindispensable resource for all those involved in the care ofpatients with psychiatric disorders.

For this new edition, the section on the NeuroscientificFoundations of Psychiatry has been completely revised, with a newauthor team recruited by Section Editors Jonathan Polan and EricKandel. The final section, Special Populations and ClinicalSettings, features important new chapters on today's mosturgent topics, including the homeless, restraint and geriatricpsychiatry.

Key features include:

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

* Clinical vignettes describing current clinical practice in anattractive design

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

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

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

The chapter on Cognitive Behavioral Therapies by EdwardFriedman, Michael Thase and Jesse Wright is freely available. Please click on Read Excerpt 2 above to read this superb expositionof these important therapies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tasman, Allan

Kay, Jerald

Lieberman, Jeffrey A.

First, Michael B.

Maj, Mario

Über Autor(innen)

Allan Tasman, Professor and Chairman of the Department ofPsychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of LouisvilleSchool of Medicine, Kentucky, is a Past President of the AmericanPsychiatric Association and President-Elect of the Pacific RimCollege of Psychiatrists. He is a world-renowned psychiatric leaderand educator and is Secretary for Education of the WorldPsychiatric Association, responsible for all of theassociation's worldwide education programmes andinitiatives.
Jerald Kay, Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychiatryat Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio, is one of the leadingChild Psychiatrists and Psychiatry Educators in the US.
Jeffrey Lieberman, Director of the New York State PsychiatricInstitute and Chairman of psychiatry at Columbia University MedicalCenter, is a leading psychiatric drug researcher with excellentclinical, academic and publishing credentials. He received theAdolf Meyer Award of the American Psychiatric Association in2007.
Michael B First, Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at ColumbiaUniversity and the Psychiatric Institute of New York, is one of thearchitects of the DSM-IV-TR classification and is playing a keyrole in the development of DSM-V.
Mario Maj, Professor of Psychiatry at the Primo PoliclinicoUniversitario in Naples, Italy, has been President of the ItalianPsychiatric Association (since 2000); President of the ItalianSociety of Biological Psychiatry (since 1990); Secretary-General ofthe Association of European Psychiatrists (2001-2002); Editor of"European Psychiatry" and "World Psychiatry". He becamePresident of the Association of European Psychiatrists in January2002 and takes on the Presidency of the World PsychiatricAssociation in September 2008.