A comprehensive, up-to-date guide to the broad range of practices and theories of modern psychiatry. Offering an overview - and a point of view-the authors explore both the defined boundaries and the frontiers, both the well-established approaches and the unsolved clinical and research problems confronting psychiatry today. "Drs. Redlich and Freedman have done psychiatry a great service. They have produced a text which, while thoroughly modern, is firmly rooted in history. There is a clear and even light over this book. No area of psychiatry is allowed to go by default; yet no single attitude is allowed to dominate. It is balanced, accurate, and well documented. It is rich in clinical descriptive material. It is rich, also, in the sciences which nourish clinical psychiatry and make it an emerging clinical science. The references are thoroughly up to date. They map the present, and are clear guideposts to the future. This is a student's, teacher's, and physician's text.