Psychiatry for Medical Students

Thoroughly revised and updated, this classic text for medical students is broad based, extremely readable, and comprehensive. Without compromising sophistication and complexity in this overview of psychiatry, Dr. Waldinger prepares medical students for the challenge of diagnosing and treating the broad range of psychiatric disorders they will encounter in primary care settings. If students read only one book on psychiatry, this should be it. Cynthia N. Kettyle, M.D., Director of Medical Student Education in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Belmont, Massachusetts This easily read text teaches the medical student fundamentals in the interviewing of patients in psychopathology. The text also describes psychopathology cleanly and simply. Dr. Waldinger guides the medical student with examples on how to interview and do a complete psychiatric diagnosis. This edition is updated and uses DSM-IV terminology. Recent advances in areas such as neurotransmitter systems, genetics, antipsychotics, and antidepressants are current in this edition. The bibliography is also updated to include the most recent research findings. Marcia Slomowitz, M.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, Illinois

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.

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.