Essential Psychopathology & Its Treatment

Psychiatry stands at a crossroads, balancing heightened societal expectations with pointed criticism. Meeting these challenges requires more than diagnosis-it demands a broader approach. Any clinician who assesses a patient solely through DSM or ICD criteria misunderstands the process. Good care begins with accurate diagnosis but extends to the patient's context: family, upbringing, genetics, physical health, stressors, and psychodynamics. Long considered a leading text on the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of psychiatric disorders, this book rejects the caricature of modern psychiatry, offering instead a dedicated, humanistic, and common-sense approach.
This latest revision includes cutting-edge updates in psychopharmacology, computational neuroscience, and functional neuroimaging. Geared to graduate students in psychiatry, psychology, counseling and related disciplines, it makes practical, readable sense of psychopathology.

Mark D. Kilgus, MD, PhD, is clinical professor of neuropsychiatry and behavioral science with the University of South Carolina School of Medicine. He teaches psychiatry for Graduate Medical Education at Lexington Medical Center. Dr. Kilgus resides in Columbia, South Carolina.