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Psychiatry: Past, Present, and Prospect provides a set of perspectives written in essay form from eminent contributors, covering the major developments in psychiatry over the last 40 years.
List of contents
- 1: Steven Hyman: Neuroscience
- 2: Peter McGuffin: Psychiatric genetics
- 3: Vishal Bhavsar and Robin M Murray: Clinical research with a focus on schizophrenia
- 4: Dana March and Ezra Susser: Epidemiology and causality
- 5: Anne Becker and Arthur Kleinman: Cultural psychiatry
- 6: Julian Leff: Community psychiatry
- 7: Norman Sartorius: Psychiatry in developing countries
- 8: George Szmukler: Mental health law
- 9: Stephen Green and Sidney Bloch: Psychiatric ethics
- 10: German Berrios: Diagnosis and classification
- 11: Don Lipsitt: Consultation-liaison psychiatry
- 12: Michael Rutter: Child and adolescent psychiatry
- 13: Catherine Oppenheimer: Psychiatry of the elderly
- 14: Paul E Mullen and Danny H Sullivan: Forensic psychiatry
- 15: Arieh Shalev: Psychological trauma
- 16: Jerome Jaffe: The addictions
- 17: Edwin Harari: Personality disorders
- 18: Philip B. Mitchell and Dusan Hadzi-Pavlovic: Psychopharmacology
- 19: Max Fink: Convulsive therapies
- 20: Aaron T. Beck and David J. A. Dozois: Cognitive-behaviour therapy
- 21: Jeremy Holmes: Psychodynamic psychiatry
About the author
Sidney Bloch,
Emeritus Professor and Honorary Consultant, University of Melbourne and St Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia, Stephen A. Green,
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington DC, USA, Jeremy Holmes,
School of Psychology, University of Exeter, UK
Summary
Psychiatry: Past, Present, and Prospect provides a set of perspectives written in essay form from eminent contributors, covering the major developments in psychiatry over the last 40 years.
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Each contributor writes about his or her personal involvement in the speciality, which is almost always the history of the advancement in that particular field....No matter where you are in your career, I believe that you can learn a lot from these words of wisdom by our elders.
