"over the book""s course, they oversaw an expansion to two volumes and more than 5,000 pages, with more than 600 contributors. This growth reflects the fantastic expansion of the field of psychiatry, with advances in neuroscience, pharmacology, psychological theory and practice, cultural psychiatry, sociology, and many other affiliated areas. To accommodate this, the sadocks organized the book into different subject area sections, each with an expert contributing editor"

the gold standard reference for all those who work with people with mental illness, kaplan & sadock""s comprehensive textbook of psychiatry, edited by drs. Robert boland and marcia l. Verduin, has consistently kept pace with the rapid growth of research and knowledge in neural science, as well as biological and psychological science. This two-volume eleventh edition offers the expertise of more than 600 renowned contributors who cover the full range of psychiatry and mental health, including neural science, genetics, neuropsychiatry, psychopharmacology, and other key areas.

- provides comprehensive coverage of the full range of topics in psychiatry and mental health, keeping you at the forefront of current developments in the field
- contains thoroughly updated and expanded content throughout, including the full range of psychiatric therapeutics
- offers up-to-date coverage of neural sciences with sections on epigenetics, the microbiome, systems neuroscience, the human connectome project, neurodevelopment, and more
- includes "text within a text" coverage of child psychiatry with comprehensive information on neuroimaging, assessment, genetics, sleep disorders, and the impact on parents of raising a psychiatrically disabled child
- contains abundant case histories that add clarity and represent the vast clinical experiences and wisdom of hundreds of contributing authors
- an indispensable resource for psychiatrists and other physicians, psychologists, psychiatric social workers, psychiatric nurses, students, residents, and other mental health professionals

contents:
volume i
1 neural sciences
2 neuropsychiatry and behavioral neurology
3 contributions of the psychological sciences
4 contribution of the social sciences
5 quantitative and experimental methods in psychiatry
6 theories of personality and psychopathology
7 diagnosis and psychiatry: examination of the psychiatric patient
8 clinical manifestations of psychiatric disorders
9 classification in psychiatry
10 neurocognitive disorders
11 substance-related disorders
12 schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders
13 mood disorders
14 anxiety disorders
15 obsessive-compulsive and related disorders
16 pathological and problem gambling: gambling disorder
17 post-traumatic stress disorder
18 somatic symptom and related disorders
19 factitious disorder
20 dissociative disorders
21 normal sexuality and sexual disorders
22 feeding and eating disorders
23 sleep disorders
24 impulse-control disorders
25 adjustment disorders
26 personality disorders
27 consultation-liaison psychiatry and psychosomatic medicine
28 additional conditions that may be a focus of clinical attention
29 cultural concepts of distress and assessment
30 special areas of interest
volume ii
31 psychiatric emergencies
32 psychotherapies
33 biologic therapies
34 child psychiatry
35 child psychiatric examination
36 genetics in child psychiatry
37 neuroimaging in psychiatric disorders of childhood
38 temperament: risk and protective factors for child psychiatric disorders
39 intellectual disability
40 specific learning disorder
41 developmental coordination disorder
42 communication
43 autism spectrum disorders
44 attention-deficit disorders
45 disruptive behavior disorders in children and adolescents
46 feeding and eating disorders of infancy and early childhood
47 tic disorders
48 elimination disorders
49 other disorders of infancy, childhood, and adolescence
50 mood disorders in children and adolescents
51 anxiety disorders in children
52 early-onset psychotic disorders
53 child psychiatry: psychiatric treatment
54 child psychiatry: special areas of interest
55 geriatric psychiatry
56 public psychiatry
57 psychiatric education
58 ethics and forensic psychiatry
59 history of psychiatry
60 world aspects of psychiatry
appendix a: history of psychiatry table
appendix b: glossary of psychiatry and psychology terms
appendix c: comparative diagnoses