Psychiatry for Medical Students

By Robert J. Waldinger and Dr Robert J Waldinger M.D.

Book Overview

For medical students taking their first course in psychiatry or entering their first clinical clerkship, their early encounters with psychiatric patients and their need to master vast amounts of new information on complicated illnesses can be a bewildering, grueling, and intimidating experience. Fortunately, these newcomers have a reliable and trusted source that makes psychiatry more accessible to them. Widely used in medical schools and allied mental health curricula, the third edition of Psychiatry for Medical Students is the standard against which all psychiatric texts for beginning medical students are measured. This popular book gives medical students, primary care physicians, nurses, social workers, and psychologists a jargon-free introduction to the basics, including topics such as schizophrenia, electroconvulsive therapy, transference, and tranquilizers. The text also helps the reader develop the basic skills needed to carry out a diagnostic evaluation and provides systematic coverage of common psychiatric disorders, groups of patients, specialized psychiatric fields, special problems encountered among patients with a broad range of psychiatric conditions, and psychotherapies and somatic therapies. This updated edition incorporates the changes in DSM-IV and contains discussions of recent developments throughout the field. Filled with new references and the latest research, this book can be used as a quick reference during clinical work and a starting point for further reading.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0880487704
• ISBN13: 9780880487702
• Release Date: August 1997
• Publisher: American Psychiatric Association Publishing
• Length: 632 Pages
• Weight: 2.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.3"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

Great book.

This is a great review book for the most commonly found conditions in psychiatry as well as covering geriatric AND pediatric issues. It has the DSM-IV criteria for these conditions, a great section on differentials (which comes in SUPER handy at test time). Took off 1 star as a few items (mainly treatment related) are outdated or not present as it is from 1997.