• Enfoque multidisciplinar en que los factores biológicos, psicológicos y sociológicos se presentan de forma equitativa, entendiendo que son todo factores que afectan a la persona tanto en la salud como en la enfermedad.
• Contenido revisado y actualizado para tener consistencia con el DSM-5.
• Cobertura concisa pero completa de todo el campo de la psiquiatría clínica, incluyendo factores biológicos, psicológicos y sociológicos en salud y enfermedad.
• Incluye todos los trastornos psiquiátricos relacionados con sustancias, así como capítulos especiales dedicados a la infancia, la adolescencia y la tercera edad.
• Abarca temas especiales como psiquiatría de emergencia, psiquiatría forense, ética y cuidados paliativos y de final de la vida.
• Ejemplos clínicos para la mayor parte de los trastornos con objeto de aportar mayor claridad y poner la teoría en el terreno práctico.
• Ofrece una cobertura nueva y ampliamente revisada de los trastornos de la infancia (nuevos trastornos y otros eliminados por el DSM-5), la disforia de género (nueva categoría incluida en el DSM-5), los problemas que afectan a las personas LGBT, la medicina reproductiva, el suicidio asistido por médicos, el trastorno por estrés postraumático, los efectos del terrorismo y la tortura, y mucho más.
• Nuevos capítulos sobre psiquiatría pública y aspectos mundiales de la psiquiatría, así como una nueva sección sobre métodos de estimulación cerebral.
• Incluye nuevos métodos de tratamiento recientes, como el mindfulness y la mentalización.
• Glosario único e integral de signos y síntomas psiquiátricos, nuevo en esta edición.

CONTENIDOS
 
1          Classification in Psychiatry
2          Psychiatric Interview, History, and Mental Status Examination
3          Medical Assessment and Laboratory Testing in Psychiatry
4          Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic Disorders
4.1       Schizophrenia
4.2       Schizoaffective Disorder
4.3       Schizophreniform Disorder
4.4       Delusional Disorder and Shared Psychotic Disorder
4.5       Brief Psychotic Disorder, Other Psychotic Disorders, and Catatonia
5          Mood Disorders
5.1       Major Depression and Bipolar Disorder
 5.2      Dysthymia and Cyclothymia
6          Anxiety Disorders
 6.1      Overview
 6.2      Panic Disorder
 6.3      Agoraphobia
 6.4      Specific Phobia
6.5       Social Anxiety Disorder (Social Phobia)
 6.6      Generalized Anxiety Disorder
 6.7      Other Anxiety Disorders
 7         Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders
 7.1      Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
 7.2      Body Dysmorphic Disorder
            7.3       Hoarding Disorder
            7.4       Hair-Pulling Disorder (Trichotillomania)
            7.5       Excoriation (Skin Picking) Disorder
8          Trauma- and Stressor-Related Disorders
 8.1      Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Acute Stress Disorder
 8.2      Adjustment Disorders
 9         Dissociative Disorders
10        Somatic Symptom and Related Disorders 
 10.1    Somatic Symptom Disorder
 10.2    Illness Anxiety Disorder
 10.3    Functional Neurological Symptom Disorder (Conversion Disorder)
10.4     Factitious Disorder
 10.5    Pain Disorder
 10.6    Other Specified or Unspecified Somatic Symptom Disorder
11        Feeding and Eating Disorders
 11.1    Anorexia Nervosa
 11.2    Bulimia Nervosa
 11.3    Binge Eating Disorder and Other Eating Disorders
 11.4    Obesity and the Metabolic Syndrome
12        Normal Sleep and Sleep-Wake Disorders 
12.1     Normal Sleep
 12.2    Sleep-Wake Disorders
13        Human Sexuality and Sexual Dysfunctions
 13.1    Normal Sexuality
 13.2    Sexual Dysfunction
 13.2    Paraphilic Disorders
14        Gender Dysphoria
15        Disruptive, Impulse-Control, and Conduct Disorders
16        Substance Use and Addictive Disorders
 16.1    Introduction and Overview
 16.2    Alcohol-Related Disorders
 16.3    Caffeine-Related Disorders
 16.4    Gambling Disorder
16.5     Hallucinogen-Related Disorders
16.6     Inhalant-Related Disorders
16.7     Opioid-Related Disorders
16.8     Sedative-, Hypnotic-, or Anxiolytic-Related Disorders
16.9     Stimulant-Related Disorders
16.10   Tobacco-Related Disorders
16.11   Anabolic-Androgenic Steroid Abuse
16.12   Cannabis-Related Disorders
16.13   Other Substance Use and Addictive Disorders
17        Neurocognitive Disorders 
17.1     Introduction and Overview
 17.2    Delirium
 17.3    Dementia (Major Neurocognitive Disorder)
 17.4    Major or Minor Neurocognitive Disorder Due to Another Medical Condition (Amnestic Disorders)
 17.5    Neurocognitive and Other Disorders Due to A General Medical Condition
 17.6    Mild Cognitive Impairment
18        Personality Disorders
19        Emergency Psychiatric Medicine
 19.1    Suicide
 19.2    Psychiatric Emergencies in Adults
 19.3    Psychiatric Emergencies in Children
 20       Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Psychiatry 
 21       Other Conditions That May Be A Focus of Clinical Attention
 22       Physical and Sexual Abuse of Adults
 23       Psychiatry and Reproductive Medicine
24        Psychotherapies
 24.1    Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
 24.2    Brief Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
 24.3    Group Psychotherapy, Combined Individual and Group Psychotherapy, and Psychodrama
 24.4    Family Therapy and Couples Therapy
 24.5    Dialectical Behavior Therapy
 24.6    Biofeedback
 24.7    Cognitive Therapy
 24.8    Behavior Therapy
 24.9    Hypnosis
 24.10  Interpersonal Therapy
 24.11  Narrative Psychotherapy
 24.12  Psychiatric Rehabilitation
 2413   Combined Psychotherapy and Pharmacotherapy
 24.14  Genetic Counseling
 24.15  Mentalization-Based Therapy and Mindfulness
25        Psychopharmacological Treatment 
26        Brain Stimulation Methods
26.1     Electroconvulsive Therapy
 26.2    Other Brain Stimulation Methods
 26.3    Neurosurgical Treatments and Deep Brain Stimulation
 27       Child Psychiatry
 27.1    Introduction: Infant, Child, and Adolescent Development
 27.2    Assessment, Examination, and Psychological Testing
 27.3    Intellectual Disability
 27.4    Communication Disorders
27.5     Autism Spectrum Disorder
 27.6    Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
 27.7    Specific Learning Disorder
 27.8    Motor Disorders
 27.8a  Developmental Coordination Disorder
 27.8b  Stereotypic Movement Disorder
 27.8c  Tourette’s Disorder
 27.8d  Persistent (Chronic) Motor or Vocal Tic Disorder
 27.9    Feeding and Eating Disorders of Infancy or Early Childhood
 27.9a  Pica
 27.9b  Rumination Disorder
 27.9c  Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder
 27.10  Elimination Disorders
 27.10a             Encopresis
 27.10b            Enuresis
 27.11  Trauma- and Stressor- Related Disorders in Children
 27.11a             Reactive Attachment Disorder and Disinhibited Social Engagement Disorder
 27.11b            Posttraumatic Stress Disorder of Infancy, Childhood, and Adolescence
27.12   Mood Disorders and Suicide in Children and Adolescents
 27.12a             Depressive Disorders and Suicide in Children and Adolescents
 27.12b            Early-onset Bipolar Disorder
 27.12c             Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder
 27.12d            Oppositional Defiant Disorder
 27.12e             Conduct Disorder
 27.13 Anxiety Disorders of Infancy, Childhood, and Adolescence
 27.13a             Separation Anxiety Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, and Social Anxiety Disorder (Social Phobia)
 27.13b            Selective Mutism
 27.14  Obsessive-Compulsive disorder in childhood and Adolescence
 27.15  Early-Onset Schizophrenia
 27.16  Adolescent Substance Abuse
 27.17  Child Psychiatry: Other Conditions
 27.17a             Attenuated Psychosis Syndrome
 27.17b            Academic Problem
 27.17c             Identity Problem
 27.18  Psychiatric Treatment of Children and Adolescents
 27.18a             Individual Psychotherapy
 27.18b            Group Psychotherapy
 27.18c             Residential, Day, and Hospital Treatment
 27.18d            Pharmacotherapy
 27.18e             Psychiatric Treatment of Adolescents
 27.19  Child Psychiatry: Special Areas of Interest
 27.19a             Forensic Issues in Child Psychiatry
 27.19b            Adoption and Foster Care
 27.19c             Child Maltreatment, Abuse, and Neglect
 27.19d            Impact of Terrorism on Children
 28       Adulthood
 29       Geriatric Psychiatry
 30       End-of-Life Issues
 30.1    Death, Dying, and Bereavement
 30.2    Palliative Care
 30.3    Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide
 31       Public Psychiatry
 32       Forensic Psychiatry and Ethics in Psychiatry
 32.1    Forensic Psychiatry
 32.2    Ethic in Psychiatry
 33       World Aspects of Psychiatry
 
Glossary of Signs and Symptoms in Psychiatry