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The Perspectives of Psychiatry, second edition

By Paul R. McHugh, M.D. and Phillip R. Slavney, M.D.
The Johns Hopkins University Press
Substantially revised to include a wealth of new material, the second edition of this highly acclaimed work provides a concise, coherent introduction that brings structure to an increasingly fragmented and amorphous discipline. Paul R. McHugh and Phillip R. Slavney offer an approach that emphasizes psychiatry's unifying concepts while accommodating its diversity. Recognizing that there may never be a single, all-encompassing theory, the book distills psychiatric practice into four explanatory methods: diseases, dimensions of personality, goal-directed behaviors, and life stories. These perspectives, argue the authors, underlie the principles and practice of all psychiatry. With an understanding of these fundamental methods, readers will be equipped to organize and evaluate psychiatric information and to develop a confident approach to practice and research.

About the Authors

Paul R. McHugh, M.D., is Henry Phipps Professor and Director in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Phillip R. Slavney, M.D., is Eugene Meyer III Professor of Psychiatry and Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Reviews

"I know many physicians who would like their own liaison psychiatrist in their pocket (in more ways than one). Those who work at Johns Hopkins now have just that. This book comprises the portable advice of the Johns Hopkins Professor of Psychiatry and Medicine to help physicians with some of the commonest psychiatric issues they encounter."—Eleanor Feldman, Psychological Medicine

"A very informative text that does an excellent job of introducing to some and presenting to others effective approaches to psychiatric and neurological symptoms . . . Provides practical, time friendly, concepts that would be usable after only the first read."—M. Ojinga Harrison, M.D., Journal of Psychosomatic Research

"This brilliant book illuminates psychiatry more clearly than any other work I know. . . . This is the best (and the shortest) single volume on psychiatry that anyone could read."—New England Journal of Medicine, reviewing a previous edition

"Every psychiatry department, regardless of ideology, should build a course around this . . . work. Open-mindedness might become fashionable."—Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, reviewing a previous edition

"An elegantly reasoned and eloquently written book that enriches our understanding of clinical events. . . . [It provides] an opportunity to open our eyes to new possibilities."—Hospital and Community Psychiatry, reviewing a previous edition

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