Modern Clinical Psychiatry

Abstract

Textbooks of psychiatry are becoming more numerous and are steadily improving in scope and character. This book is no exception to the trend. It is a welcome addition and will prove of definite value as a book for clinicians and students. Noyes states in the preface his point of view regarding behavior as representing the integrated response of the organism and has constructed the textbook on a psychobiologic basis in terms of the total integration of the organism. This is a sound approach for any psychiatric text at this stage of the development of the field of psychiatry. The material shows a great breadth of view and acceptance on the part of the author. He presents fairly the different theories, as well as the different descriptions applied to an understanding of psychiatry and its clinical syndromes. The first seven chapters deal with the preparatory discussion on the causes and nature

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