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edited by Philip Solomon, Vernon D Patch, 623 pp, paper, $7, Los Altos, Calif, Lange Medical Publications, 1969.

Samuel Friedman, MD, Reviewer
Fairfield Hills Hospital Newtown, Conn

JAMA. 1970;211(7):1191-1192.

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Assisted by a large staff of relatively young contributors, Solomon and Patch have put together a text aimed at the general practitioner, first-year psychiatric resident and ancillary personnel. To paraphrase, rarely have so many covered so much ground in so relatively little space.

Although the book follows fairly classical lines of presentation, it extends somewhat beyond the usual boundaries, viz, the chapter on statistics in psychiatry. An initial section on history, examination, theory, etc, precedes the sections devoted to clinical syndromes and treatment. The somewhat novel chapter on common psychiatric signs and symptoms and the suggested differential diagnoses appears particularly worthwhile. I would, however, take some exception to the statement that anxiety neurosis is "largely a diagnosis of exclusion." The discussion of adolescent and college psychiatry is also most pertinent in view of the burgeoning problems in this area. Thirteen chapters on therapy cover kaleidoscopically all phases of treatment. The . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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