Essential Textbook

Essential Psychopathology & Its Treatment,  5th Edition

M. Kilgus & N. Badre

Psychiatry stands at a crossroads, balancing heightened societal expectations with pointed criticism. Meeting these challenges requires more than diagnosis—it demands a broader approach. Any clinician who assesses a patient solely through DSM or ICD criteria misunderstands the process. Good care begins with accurate diagnosis but extends to the patient’s context: family, upbringing, genetics, physical health, stressors, and psychodynamics. Long considered a leading text on the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of psychiatric disorders, this book rejects the caricature of modern psychiatry, offering instead a dedicated, humanistic, and common–sense approach.

This latest revision includes cutting–edge updates in psychopharmacology, computational neuroscience, and functional neuroimaging. Geared to graduate students in psychiatry, psychology, counseling and related disciplines, it makes practical, readable sense of psychopathology.

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SECTION I: Essential Assessment

1 - Human Nature and Well-being 5 - Assessment

2 - Neurobiology 6 - Diagnosis and Prognosis

3 - Psychopathology 7 - Risk assessment

4 - Etiology

SECTION II: Essential Classification

8 - Neurodevelopmental disorders 16 - Dissociative disorders

9 - Neurocognitive disorders 17 - Somatic Symptoms disorders

10 - Substance use disorders 18 - Factitious disorders and Malingering

11 - Schizophrenia & Thought disorders 19 - Eating & Elimination disorders

12 - Mood disorders 20 - Sleep disorders

13 - Anxiety disorders 21 - Sexual & Gender disorders

14 - Obsessive-Compulsive disorders 22 - Disruptive & Impulse control dz

15 - Trauma and Stress disorders 23 - Personality disorders

SECTION III: Essential Treatment

24 - Treatment principles 28 - Symptoms-based practice

25 - Psychotherapy 29 - Ethics and Culture

26 - Psychopharmacology 30 - Forensic psychiatry

27 - Interventional psychiatry 31 - Case examples