Kaplan & Sadock's Pocket Handbook of Clinical Psychiatry

by Robert Cancro, Virginia Alcott Sadock

Now in its Fourth Edition, this popular quick-reference handbook remains a staple for medical students on psychiatric rotations, psychiatric residents, practitioners, and mental health professionals. In an easy-to-scan outline format, the book summarizes the etiology, epidemiology, clinical characteristics, diagnosis, and treatment of all psychiatric disorders. Coverage has been thoroughly updated with DSM-IV-TR diagnoses and new information on pharmacotherapy. This edition is replete with DSM-IV-TR and other tables and includes boxed, highlighted Clinical Hints. Each chapter ends with specific page and chapter references to Kaplan and Sadock's Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry, Eighth Edition . Color photographs of psychiatric drugs are also included.

Genres: Psychology, Medicine, Medical, Psychiatry

518 pages, Paperback

First published November 13, 2000

Reviews

[Milena]

So I read this almost three times :/
Not necessarily out of my own volition but here we are.

It's not poorly written, almost like a novel even. However, I don't know if the editor actually went through it because I (and friends) found a plethora of mistakes.

Would I recommend this? Maybe, if you want to try to do a little diagnosing on the side then this might be right up your alley.

Finally, could it fit in my pocket? No.

[Procrastinating Slytherin]

As someone fascinated by mental illness, it really pains me to say that this book is outrageous. My first thorough experience with clinical psychology (a field I deeply love and therefore intend to devote my research interest to in the future), it left me confused and often exasperated. Though intended for psychiatrists instead of psychology majors (which could partly explain my confusion), all in all, it lacks in structure and organization, while (it being psychoanalytically orientated) it often provides FALSE information about other therapeutic approaches, often confusing behaviorism with CBT. To be frank, I wouldn’t recommend this to anyone. Now that the new DSM is released the authors should take this opportunity and reconsider the structure, as well as the language of the book –let alone its accuracy- in order to have a more reader-friendly result.

[Yamaguchi]

Can you believe I passed this class? Yeah... me neither. This book is badly written (and that comes from someone that loves tables and structure) and too subjective for my taste when I read science (which surprised me too, since one would think this is 100% facts- it isn't).

[Ana González Toledo]

it's a great synthesis, for rapid consultation, and has a lots of plusses in the matter of treatment and essential high lights to make the right diagnosis

[Bruce Campbell]

I use this book weekly in my practice. Much more accessible than the DSM.

[HuDa AljaNabi]

one of my favorite medical school books!

[Enas Ahmed]

nice and concise .. yet I didn't like the font
it was really so small