H. Keith Fischer

Depression and Mania

With depression and mania as the unifying nidus of extremely intensive and extensive multidisciplinary psychobiologic research and clinical effort, it is timely that Georgotas leads 54 authors in collecting and evaluating this activity and progress. Five hundred of the 653 pages, which are presented in six parts, focus on etiology, clinical syndromes, and treatment. Twenty of the authors are from New York City and New York state, while seven are from the National Institute of Mental Health. An equal number come from the rest of the United States and from foreign countries. Forty-seven of the authors have MD degrees. Two hundred twenty-six pages, the largest section, are devoted to treatment. About half of this presents psychopharmacology and medication therapy. References are included after each of the 42 chapters, and a topic index of 4 1/2 pages concludes the book. On the broad research side are genetic studies (the Amish study

Modern Clinical Psychiatry

This eighth edition is the first not to bear the name of Arthur B. Noyes, the original and sole author of the first four editions. Lawrence C. Kolb alone takes over its name after being sole author since the 1963 edition (sixth edition). A major organizational change reorders and redesignates chapters to conform to the new Eighth International Classification of Disease. The basic format, at times the language, illustrative case reports, and the significant theoretical and phenomenological material are retained. However, updated and expanded clinical information appears in every chapter and in the bibliography. A chapter on special symptoms is added, and with those on behavior disorders of childhood and adolescence, and mental retardation, together offers a much expanded coverage of disorders of early life. Although the clinical base of psychoanalytic dynamic theory in personality development and conflict is the central functional concept, anatomical, biochemical, adaptational processes and mechanisms all