Table of Contents

1: Steven Hyman: Neuroscience 2: Peter McGuffin: Psychiatric genetics 3: Vishal Bhavsar and Robin M Murray: Clinical research with a focus on schizophrenia 4: Dana March and Ezra Susser: Epidemiology and causality 5: Anne Becker and Arthur Kleinman: Cultural psychiatry 6: Julian Leff: Community psychiatry 7: Norman Sartorius: Psychiatry in developing countries 8: George Szmukler: Mental health law 9: Stephen Green and Sidney Bloch: Psychiatric ethics 10: German Berrios: Diagnosis and classification 11: Don Lipsitt: Consultation-liaison psychiatry 12: Michael Rutter: Child and adolescent psychiatry 13: Catherine Oppenheimer: Psychiatry of the elderly 14: Paul E Mullen and Danny H Sullivan: Forensic psychiatry 15: Arieh Shalev: Psychological trauma 16: Jerome Jaffe: The addictions 17: Edwin Harari: Personality disorders 18: Philip B. Mitchell and Dusan Hadzi-Pavlovic: Psychopharmacology 19: Max Fink: Convulsive therapies 20: Aaron T. Beck and David J. A. Dozois: Cognitive-behaviour therapy 21: Jeremy Holmes: Psychodynamic psychiatry

Promotional Information

Highly commended at the BMA Medical Book Awards 2015

About the Author

Edited by Sidney Bloch, Emeritus Professor and Honorary Consultant, University of Melbourne and St Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia, Stephen A. Green, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington DC, USA, and Jeremy Holmes, School of Psychology, University of Exeter, UKContributors: Aaron T. Beck, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USAAnne Becker, Harvard University, USAGerman Berrios, Chair of the Epistemology of Psychiatry, Life Fellow, Robinson College, University of Cambridge, UKVishal Bhavsa, Institute of Psychiatry, University of London, UKSidney Bloch, Department of Psychiatry, St Vincent's Hospital, University of Melbourne, Victoria, AustraliaDavid Dozois, Department of Psychology, The University of Western Ontario, London, ON, CanadaStephen A. Green, Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington DC, USAMax Fink, Professor of Psychiatry & Neurology Emeritus, Stony Brook University School of Medicine, Long Island NY, USA Dusan Hadzi-Pavlovic, Senior Hospital Scientist, Black Dog Institute, Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick NSW Australia; Conjoint Senior Lecturer, School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Sydney NSW AustraliaEdwin Harari Jeremy Holmes, School of Psychology, University of Exeter, UKSteven Hyman, Harvard University, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USAJerome Jaffe, University of Maryland, USAArthur Kleinman, Harvard University, USAJulian Leff, Institute of Psychiatry, University of London, UKDon Lipsitt, Harvard University, USADana March, Department of Epidemiology, The Joseph L. Mailman School of Public Health Columbia University, USAPeter McGuffin, MRC SGDP Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, UKPhilip Mitchell, University of New South Wales, Sydney, AustraliaPaul Mullen, Monash University, Victorian Institute of Forensic Mental Health, AustraliaRobin Murray, Institute of Psychiatry, University of London, UKCatherine Oppenheimer, Consultant Psychiatrist, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Partnership Mental Healthcare NHS Trust, UK Michael Rutter, MRC SGDP Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London, UKNorman Sartorius, Former Head of Mental Health, World Heath Organization, Geneva, SwitzerlandArieh Y. Shalev, M.D., Department of Psychiatry, Hadassah University Hospital, Jerusalem, IsraelDanny Sullivan, Monash University, Victorian Institute of Forensic Mental Health, AustraliaEzra Susser, Columbia University, USAGeorge Szmukler, Professor of Psychiatry and Society, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, UK

Reviews

I felt that the Editors achieved all of their stated goals in assembling these very readable, inspiring and enlightening essays.
*Richard T. White (A senior psychiatrist's perspective), Australasian Psychiatry, 23(2), 2015*

Psychiatry: Past, Present, and Prospect reminds us how diverse and enriching yet ambitious and ambivalent our speciality can be. . . As the editors state in the introduction, this is a book about the elders of psychiatry passing on their wisdom to the next generation of psychiatrists. . . No matter where you are in your career, I believe that you can learn a lot from these words of wisdom by our elders.
*Shuichi Suetani (A trainee's perspective), Australasian Psychiatry, 23(2), 2015*

Psychiatry - just like individuals - should ask itself the central existential questions: Where am I now? Where do I come from? Where am I going? This book gives quite a few nuanced and thought-provoking answers to these questions that we psychiatrists should engage ourselves thoroughly with occassionally... The result is a very knowledgeable, readable and critical/charming review of psychiatry's development - knowledge-based, action-related and attitudinal.
*Journal of the Norwegian Medical Association*

This is a thought-provoking book on the developments in psychiatry since the 1950s, both good and bad, and how they have affected present-day practice and the future course of psychiatry... Readers may not agree with every expert's opinion, but the book provides welcome food for thought.
*Doody's Notes*

Each contributor writes about his or her personal involvement in the speciality, which is almost always the history of the advancement in that particular field....No matter where you are in your career, I believe that you can learn a lot from these words of wisdom by our elders.
*Shuichi Suetani, Australasian Psychiatry,*