disorders, with special chapters on children, adolescents, and the elderly. It also covers special topics such as emergency psychiatry, forensic psychiatry, ethics, and palliative and end-of-life care.
Key Features:* Provides concise but thorough coverage of the entire field of clinical psychiatry, including biologic, psychologic, and sociologic factors in health and disease.
* Contains real-world case histories throughout.
* Includes thorough updates and revisions throughout, all consistent with the DSM-5.
* Features new and extensively revised coverage of childhood disorders, gender dysphoria, issues affecting LGBT persons, reproductive medicine, physician-assisted suicide, PTSD, the effects of terrorism and torture, and much more.
* Includes new chapters on public psychiatry and world aspects of psychiatry, as well as a new section on brain stimulation methods.
* Features a unique, comprehensive glossary of psychiatric signs and symptoms, new to this edition.
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* Powerful search tools and smart navigation cross-links that pull results from content in the book, your notes, and even the web
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