Kaplan and Sadock's Pocket Handbook of Clinical Psychiatry

by Virginia Alcott Sadock and Benjamin James Sadock

Book Overview

Thoroughly updated for its Fifth Edition, Kaplan and Sadock's Pocket Handbook of Clinical Psychiatry remains a staple for medical students on psychiatric rotations, psychiatric residents,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0781725321
• ISBN13: 9780781725323
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Lippincott Raven
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.2" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

comprehensive resource for medical student psychiatry

Very good resource for medical psychiatry. Font is small, but information is very dense and clinically relevant. I would not consider adding an additional psychiatry resource to my textbook flotilla unless it covered for a deficiency of this text's subject matter. Thus far, I've not found myself wanting additional resources (except for occasional Pub Med searches). Or, if one was particular interested in psychiatry, a more involved psychiatry book (or books) would be needed. For everyone else, this is all you need. I'd recommend it over the Board Review Series Behavioral Science, which was good up to a point but lacked many crucial clinical details.

useful

i was required to buy this book for my behavioral science course in med school. its chapters pretty much follow the dsm with the addition of treatment for each disorder. i can see this being very useful on the psych rotation as well.

Good little handbook

I am starting a psychiatry residency after switching from Pediatrics. This is a good little handbook that just gives you a good overview of psychiatry. It's chapters are congruent with the 17 clinical disorders (d/o)(ie: substance abuse, mood d/o, schizophrenia etc.) within the DSM-IV. It's nice because for each d/o it covers things like epidemiology, causes, DSM-IV criteria, and treatments. Allbeit VERY small font, they have even thought to put tables of the DSM-IV criteria along with each d/o. This is nice because the DSM-IV is the standard, and one does not always want to whip one out when studying. It must be stressed that this book should not be used in place of the larger more comphensive Kaplan and Sadock books. This is JUST in mostly bullet point - VERY HIGH YIELD -information to get a good overview, and or review for exams and such. I definitely will purchase the larger synopsis version along with the question book because taken together all of these should be more than valuable. This handbook would be recommended as a primer for newly starting psychiatry residents or psychiatry staff. It is a readable book due to it's small size and although not super light weight, could be tucked into a white coat if need be. Definitely would give high marks.

Compact and informative

The sectional layout of this edition follows that of the huge comprehensive textbook of psychiatry. However, information is relevant and pertinent to medical students and practicing residents. Although, a bit light on psychotherapeutic treatments it is good on topics of definitions, epidemilogy and psychotropics. Good tables and figures throughout. Good in terms of what it is marketed as... a handbook. Go to the Synopsis or Comprehensive textbooks for fuller understanding.