The Theory and Practice of Psychiatry.

Abstract

Textbooks are too often an entombment of outdated knowledge. The Theory and Practice of Psychiatry is a welcome exception and a rare accomplishment. It presents clinical insight, experimental data, and theoretical formulation in an appropriately critical and questioning setting. Redlich and Freedman set themselves an enormous task. In their preface they state their belief that psychiatry rests on foundations of both basic biological and behavorial sciences. The first includes genetics and neurophysiological and neurochemical correlates of behavior; second includes psychology, sociology, anthropology, and the biologically oriented science of psychoanalysis. Out of this morass of possible information, authors select what they feel are core problems, issues, facts, and approaches that identify body of general psychiatric knowledge. This material is organized along classic lines of a psychiatric text. In first 11 chapters authors discuss field of psychiatry, its history, normal and abnormal

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