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Edited by Marc E. Agronin and Gabe J. Maletta. 762 pp. Philadelphia, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2006. $149. ISBN 978-0-7817-4810-0.

Training in geriatric psychiatry is often lacking, and the clinical results are often disastrous. Principles and Practice of Geriatric Psychiatry is an outstanding book on the topic for all clinicians involved in geriatrics. It serves two important purposes by providing both a thorough introduction to the specialty of geriatric psychiatry and an approachable, clinically focused treatise on the psychiatry of geriatrics.

In his foreword to the book, Robert Butler eloquently articulates its importance and relevance: "This unique textbook of geriatric psychiatry exemplifies the enormous strides made in aging over the past 30 years. It offers not only clinical science, but . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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