{"product_id":"theory-and-practice-of-psychiatry-9780195149388","title":"Theory and Practice of Psychiatry","description":"\u003cp\u003eBased on years of teaching psychiatry to medical students and residents  this single-authored textbook offers a conversational yet detailed guide to modern psychiatric theory and practice. Exploring various approaches to psychiatric disorders - including neurobiology  dimensional personality assessment  behavioral science  and psychodynamic and cognitive theories - it lucidly illustrates each approachs strengths and weaknesses and suggests how clinicians can interweave them in working with patients. Using clinical vignettes and recent research findings to illustrate the connections between phenomenology  pathophysiology  and treatment  it covers all of the major psychiatric disorders and includes tables listing their DSM-IV-TR diagnostic criteria.  The book offers balanced coverage of subjects that receive scant attention in other introductory textbooks  including the limitations of the DSM-IV categorical approach to psychiatric diagnosis  controversies surrounding the dissociative disorders and \"recovered memories \" and the prescription of stimulant medications to children with suspected attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder. Later chapters provide practical guidelines for estimating a patients risk of suicide and violence and for assessing competence to consent to medical or psychiatric treatment. In eschewing a dry recitation of clinical syndromes for an engaging discussion aimed at teaching the reader how to \"think psychiatrically \" the book will appeal to medical students  psychiatric residents  mental health clinicians  and primary care physicians.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45648131588149,"sku":"ByrdShop_0195149386","price":99.78,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780195149388.jpg?v=1781710495","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/theory-and-practice-of-psychiatry-9780195149388","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}