New Oxford Textbook of Psychiatry

• An established and highly-praised textbook of psychiatry which has come to be regarded as one of the most popular and trusted standard psychiatry texts among psychiatrists and trainees
• Written and edited by the foremost international authorities, it presents a comprehensive account of clinical psychiatry, with reference to its scientific basis and to the patient`s perspective throughout
• Integrates biological, psychological, and social approaches, providing the broadest possible coverage of the field
• Sections on treatment combine an evidence-based approach with practical advice based on extensive clinical experience

New to this Edition:

• Extensively re-structured and streamlined to keep pace with significant developments that have taken place in the fields of clinical psychiatry and neuroscience since publication of the second edition in 2009
• Updated throughout to include the most recent versions of the two main classification systems used throughout the world for the diagnosis of mental disorders, the DSM-5 and the ICD-11
• Guy M. Goodwin, Senior Research Fellow at the University of Oxford and the Past-President of the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ECNP) joins the editor team
• The list of sections and chapter topics has been completely reorganized in order to follow the "lifespan approach" to management of mental disorders and to eliminate repetition/overlap
• The total number of chapters has been reduced from 271 in the Second Edition to 146 in the Third Edition, whereas the number of sections has increased from 11 to 24. The print edition has been streamlined from 2 volumes to 1 volume.