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1 - Introduction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 July 2021

By
Audrey M. Walker ,
Steven C. Schlozman  and
Jonathan E. Alpert
Edited by
Audrey Walker ,
Steven Schlozman  and
Jonathan Alpert
Audrey Walker
Affiliation:
Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York
Steven Schlozman
Affiliation:
Harvard Medical School
Jonathan Alpert
Affiliation:
Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York
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Summary

The first edition of Introduction to Psychiatry is a textbook designed to reach medical students, house staff, primary care clinicians, and early-career mental health practitioners. It is the editors’ hope that this text will enable its readers to understand the neuroscientific basis of psychiatry, best practices in the psychiatric assessment and treatment of the patient, the current understanding of core psychiatric diagnoses, and the important underlying issues of population health, public policy, and workforce recruitment and training that must be tackled to bring these advances to all.

Why create a textbook of psychiatry specifically for clinicians not trained for the mental health field? To answer this question, one must understand the troubling challenges facing the mental health workforce, the changing face of mental health care delivery, the enormous comorbidity between psychiatric illnesses and other health conditions, and the impact on non-psychiatric medical illnesses when a comorbid psychiatric disorder is present.

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Introduction to Psychiatry
Preclinical Foundations and Clinical Essentials
 , pp. 1 - 8
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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