Everyday Psychiatry: Concise, Clinical, Practical

The second edition of this book has more practical utility for civilian medicine than did the first, which was largely oriented to military problems. Since the book is directed to workers outside the specialty, particularly to general physicians, medical students and social workers, the author does not attempt an all-inclusive coverage of psychiatric problems. He wisely focuses attention on the vast borderlands of psychiatry. He speaks of mental and behavioral aberrations most likely to be encountered in general practice, of those not clearcut or incapacitating enough to occasion hospitalization. The entities with which he deals include mental deficiency, psychopathic personality, psychoneurosis, psychosexual deviations, schizoid and cycloid personalities, involutional pictures and chronic alcoholism. The section on involutional syndromes is new and certainly belongs in a book of this kind. The author points out that the involutional process is one of the most neglected and poorly understood subjects in medicine.

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