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Edited by Michael G. Gelder, Juan J. López-Ibor, and Nancy Andreasen. 2131 pp. in two volumes, illustrated. New York, Oxford University Press, 2000. $249. ISBN 0-19-262970-0.
Edited by Fritz Henn, Norman Sartorius, Hanfried Helmchen, and Hans Lauter. 1069 pp. in three volumes, illustrated. New York, Springer-Verlag, 2001. $350. ISBN 3-540-65805-X.

Two international, multivolume, multiauthored textbooks of psychiatry appeared almost simultaneously at the start of the millennium: the two volumes of the New Oxford Textbook of Psychiatry, derived mostly from Anglo-American sources, and the three volumes of Contemporary Psychiatry, derived mostly from German and Swiss psychiatric centers. Each is truly international, and the scope of each extends into the other's orbit.

The books are called "textbooks" but are actually encyclopedias. Each provides authoritative essays or chapters on most topics pertaining to clinical psychiatry as it is understood at the beginning of the 21st century, from the description of psychiatric disorders themselves . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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