Books in the Critical Issues in Psychiatry series

Gives professionals and students across the health and mental health disciplines a working knowledge of drug-related pathology, beginning with pharmacology, drug mechanisms, and genetic factors. This title features clinical/emergency orientation suited to both chronic misuse and acute situations.

Unique in its design and content, this essential handbook provides psychiatric residents with a guide for monitoring their educational development during the residency training experience. Developed by leading psychiatric educators form the United States, Great Britain, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, this book sets forth specific goals, objectives, and priorities for every area within the broad field of psychiatry, giving direction through traditional texts and clinical experiences.

I remembered that it had been almost forty years since he wrote A Manual for Psychiatric Case Study, not one of his well-known but probably the most practical of his books.

`[This] volume provides a unique and advantageous perspective to the trainees and practitioners in the adolescent substance abuse field.

Clinicians have long been fascinated by the rare and exotic in med icine. For this reason, the understanding and insights collected in this volume are likely to have clinical usefulness far beyond those rare occasions when we encounter the exotic in its fully developed form.

I have often stated to students that I felt that one of the most important characteristics of a psychotherapist is the ability to tolerate ambiguity.

When this series was conceived, a book on substance abuse, including alcohol and alcoholism, was to be of highest priority. We wanted a book that would be concise and easily readable but also comprehensive in its presentation of the basic principles underlying clinical manifestations, diagnosis, and management.

vii Preface Each year as I gave a lecture series on child and adult development to the adult and child psychiatric residents at the University of California at San Diego, someone inevitably would ask, "Is there a book that I could understand that has all of this information in it?"

It is sobering to reflect that it has been nearly fifty years since Thomas French's article on the "Interrelations between Psychoanalysis and the Experimental Work of Pavlov," representing the first psychoanalyst to bridge the gap between the theories of conditioning, was published.

A careful reading provides family therapists and researchers with won derful opportunities to examine the ways in which history, socio economie and politieal contexts, and epidemiology can be used to in crease understanding of the family.

of emergency care, The authors consistently present a systematic model emphasizing the interconnection between the process of emergency interven tion and the specific features of clinical crisis.

A careful reading provides family therapists and researchers with won derful opportunities to examine the ways in which history, socio economie and politieal contexts, and epidemiology can be used to in crease understanding of the family.

The field has attained growing respectability, with a textbook recently published, a congressionally man dated National Commission on Sleep Disorders Research, and a growing public awareness of the importance of sleep disorders.

Of particular importance are chapters on human sexuality in American minority popula tions, a chapter on alcohol, medication and other drugs, and a chapter on medical management of sexual problems in the gay population, a subject long-ignored by the profession.

This book is welcomed to the series as a truly unique contribution to the literature on marital therapy.

When Critical Issues in Psychiatry was conceived, there were several sub jects I considered to be of crucial importance in a series devoted to residents and clinicians in psychiatry, as well as to other mental health professionals.

The field has attained growing respectability, with a textbook recently published, a congressionally man dated National Commission on Sleep Disorders Research, and a growing public awareness of the importance of sleep disorders.

`[This] volume provides a unique and advantageous perspective to the trainees and practitioners in the adolescent substance abuse field.