Products Psychiatry Book information Product description Author information and services Ordering information Bibliographic and ordering information Book-related information Submit your book proposal Other books in same subject area Support & contact About Elsevier Select your view

	PSYCHIATRY Behavioral Science and Clinical Essentials To order this title, and for more information, click here By Jerald Kay, MD, Professor and Chair, Department of Psychiatry, Wright State University School of Medicine, Dayton, OH Allan Tasman, MD, Professor and Chair Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, KY Jeffrey Lieberman, MD, Professor of Psychiatry, Pharmacology, and Radiology and Vice Chairman, Department of Psychiatry University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC Description This is a new Eedition to the Psychiatry series. It is a companion to Tasman's Psychiatry and it combines current scientific information with more traditional theories regarding mental illness. The book stresses the relationship of traditional theory with scientific findings. It offers numerous tables, charts, boxed information, decision trees, and line drawings. Contents SECTION I: APPROACHES TO THE PATIENT. The Doctor-Patient Relationship. Introduction to Medical Interviewing. SECTION II: HUMAN DEVELOPMENT. Psychological Theories of Human Development and Behaviour. Gender and Sexual Issues in the Practice of Medicine. SECTION III: SCIENTIFIC FOUNDATIONS OF PSYCHIATRY. Introduction. Neurobiology of Behaviour and Psychiatric Disorders. Behavioural Genetics. Psychiatric Epidemiology. Neurobiology of Sleep.Cognitive Neuroscience: Learning and Memory. Psychobiology of Trauma. SECTION IV: EVALUATING PSYCHIATRIC PATIENTS. The Assessment of the Psychiatric Patient. SECTION V: ADULT PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS. The Psychiatric Disorders. SECTION VI: THE TREATMENT OF THE PSYCHIATRIC PATIENT. Therapies. A: Psychotherapies. B: Biological/Somatic Therapies. SECTION VII: SPECIAL CLINICAL SETTINGS AND PROBLEMS. Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Childhood and Adolescent Disorders. Geriatric Psychiatry. Psychiatric Aspects of HIV. Behavioural Medicine. Psychiatric Emergencies. Bibliographic & ordering Information Paperback, 707 pages, publication date: OCT-1999 ISBN-13: 978-0-7216-5846-9 ISBN-10: 0-7216-5846-6 Imprint: SAUNDERS 021/200 Last update: 13 Jul 2008	Book contents Table of contents Reviews Submit your review Bookmark this page Recommend this publication Overview of all books