Handbook of Psychiatry Volume 8

Among the disciplines which are growing at the most accelerated pace is psychiatry and understandably so. Intimately involved with psychology general biology neurology sociology cultural changes of any kind it is constantly enriched by these fields and many others which all converge toward a greater knowledge of man in health and mental illness.This Book is edited by Javad Nurbakhsh Hamideh Jahangiri George E. Gardner Gerald Caplan Nathan W. Ackerman James R. Allen Suzanne Taets van Amerongen E. James Anthony Edgar Auerswald Marjorie L. Behrens Irving N. Berlin Harry R. Brickman Eugene B. Brody Bertram S. Brown Hilde Bruch Gerald Caplan John C. Cassel Morris E. Chafetz Jacob Christ Raquel E. Cohen Shirley Cooper Robert E. Davidson Harold W. Demone Jr.George A. DeVos Jackson Dillon Barbara Snell Dohrenwend Bruce P. Dohrenwend Matthew P. Dumont Leon Eisenberg Dana L. Farnsworth Alan Gartner Albert J. Glass William Goldfarb Ernest M. Gruenberg Beatrix A. Hamburg Norris Hansell Portia Bell HumeJames D. Isbister Gerald F. Jacobson John J. Laffey Maurice W. Laufer Alexander H. Leighton Alan I. Levenson Reginald S. Lourie Alan A. McLean.