Kaplan Sadocks Pocket Handbook Of Clinical Psychiatry

Download or read book Kaplan & Sadock's Pocket Handbook of Clinical Psychiatry written by Benjamin J. Sadock and published by Lippincott Raven. This book was released on 2001 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thoroughly updated for its Third Edition, this popular quick-reference handbook remains a staple for medical students on psychiatric rotations as well as psychiatric residents and practitioners. In an easy-to-scan outline format, the book presents the etiology, epidemiology, clinical characteristics, and treatment of all psychiatric disorders. Additional chapters cover the psychiatric examination, special populations, psychotherapy, biological therapies, medication-induced movement disorders, legal issues, and laboratory tests.The book is replete with tables and includes color photographs of psychiatric drugs. Each chapter ends with suggestions for further reading, which include cross-references to specific page numbers in Kaplan and Sadock's Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry, Seventh Edition.