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Edited by Sidney Weissman, Melvin Sabshin, and Harold Eist. 366 pp. Washington, D.C., American Psychiatric Press, 1999. $50. ISBN 0-88048-938-3.

At the end of this millennium, psychiatry is facing revolutionary changes that have already affected the training of psychiatrists and the ways in which they deliver care. The implications of these changes for the future of psychiatry are the subject of this book.

In their contributions to the book, Coyle, Hyman, Callicott, and Weinberger outline the scientific opportunities to unravel complex psychiatric diseases. Coyle gives a particularly useful overview of advances in neurosciences that are relevant to psychiatry, which highlights the brain's remarkable plasticity and vitiates a reductionist approach. The new neuroscientific foundation of psychiatry, encompassing molecular psychopharmacology and the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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