Benjamin James Sadock, M.D.
Menas S. Gregory Professor of Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, New York University School of Medicine;Attending Psychiatrist, Tisch
Hospital;Attending Psychiatrist, Bellevue Hospital Center;New York, New York
Virginia Alcott Sadock, M.D.
Professor of Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, New York University School of Medicine;Attending Psychiatrist, Tisch Hospital;Attending
Psychiatrist, Bellevue Hospital Center, New York, New York
Pedro Ruiz, M.D.
Professor of Psychiatry, Executive Vice-Chair and Director of Clinical Programs,
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences,
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Sadock, Benjamin J., author.
Kaplan & Sadock’s synopsis of psychiatry : behavioral sciences/clinical psychiatry.—Eleventh edition / Benjamin James Sadock, Virginia Alcott Sadock, Pedro Ruiz.
p. ; cm.
Kaplan and Sadock’s synopsis of psychiatry
Synopsis of psychiatry
Preceded by Kaplan & Sadock’s synopsis of psychiatry / Benjamin James Sadock, Virginia Alcott Sadock. 10th ed. 2007.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary: “The goal of this book is to foster professional competence and ensure the highest quality care to those with mental illness. An eclectic, multidisciplinary approach has
been its hallmark; thus, biological, psychological, and sociological factors are equitably presented as they affect the person in health and disease”–Provided by publisher.
ISBN 978-1-60913-971-1 (alk. paper)
I. Sadock, Virginia A., author. II. Ruiz, Pedro, 1936- author. III. Title. IV. Title: Kaplan and Sadock’s synopsis of psychiatry. V. Title: Synopsis of psychiatry.