The updated edition of the Handbook of Psychiatric Practice from the Scientific Publications Parisianou, embraced by the English-speaking psychiatric and medical scientific community, comes to serve as an essential aid for both Greek students and physicians.

Recent developments in the field of psychiatry have been rapid, and the fully updated edition reflects precisely the new knowledge of the evolving science. This handbook summarizes the DSM-5® diagnostic system, various psychiatric disorders and therapeutic approaches, interviewing and assessment, emergency psychiatric cases, and legal issues. The coverage of basic psychiatric concepts that physicians and students have relied on for years continues, resulting in the handbook being exemplary for the science of psychiatry.

This pocket guide, accompanying the sixth edition of the very popular textbook Introduction to Psychiatry, is comprehensive, detailed, and convenient for carrying. This volume, primarily aimed at medical students and novice psychiatry residents, serves as an excellent educational tool and a valuable text for beginner psychiatrists.

Readers will discover within its pages a valid and reliable handbook of practical psychiatry that should not be missing from the library or the medical coats of students and physicians.