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Volume 342:901 March 23, 2000 Number 12
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Difficult Clinical Problems in Psychiatry

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Edited by Malcolm Lader and Dieter Naber. 246 pp. London, Martin Dunitz, 1999. £ 39.95. ISBN 1-85317-550-1.

In the introduction to this book, editors Malcolm Lader and Dieter Naber note that, intricate though our psychiatric nosology has become, it does not offer the kinds of sharp demarcations that would make decisions about treatment easy. Illnesses overlap one with another, and medications developed for one condition prove to be of use for seemingly disparate problems. In day-to-day work with patients, how is the practicing psychiatrist to sort this out? Difficult Clinical Problems in Psychiatry, directed at the general psychiatrist, is an offer of assistance from an international group of experts.

This book tackles 13 tough subjects, including refractory . . . [Full Text of this Article]




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