A concise review of current research into suicide providing a guide to understanding this disease and its increasing incidence globally.

This pocket-sized guide organizes a range of information into a quick-reference format. Numerous tables and a glossary of legal terms summarize essential information. This edition has been updated to include many of the changes in legal issues.

Presents a comprehensive guide to some of the most popular operas from the classic period to the present; and explores the careers of the great composers as well as descriptions of their operas.

Adverse medication reactions account for up to 7,000 deaths annually in the United States. In today's era of polypharmacy, busy clinicians - especially those who practice in medical/surgical settings - must be able to quickly find and even anticipate psychiatric drug interactions.

An understanding of drug interactions has become essential to the practice of medicine. Since publication of the first edition of this Concise Guide in 2001, our increasing pharmacopoeia—coupled with prolonged human life spans—has made polypharmacy commonplace. Like the first edition of this unique pocket reference, the Second Edition is written expressly for clinicians. With four new contributors, this bestseller includes expanded sections on both phase I and phase II metabolism, updates of existing chapters and tables, new graphics, and extensive Web site references. Brand-new chapters discuss P-glycoproteins, "minor" cytochrome P450 enzymes, pain management with narcotic and nonnarcotic analgesics, prescribing guidelines, and medicolegal issues. This exceptionally practical guide is divided into four parts: 1. An easy-to-read, succinct review of pharmacology, written with clinicians in mind, explaining the importance of understanding our metabolic system and pharmacokinetics and P-glycoprotein drug interactions. 2. Thorough, carefully referenced reviews of the most clinically relevant phase I and phase II metabolic enzymes highlighted with newly expanded tables and study cases. 3. A section unique to this book on drug interactions by medical specialty, with drug tables arranged by how they are used in specialties such as gynecology, infectious diseases, internal medicine, neurology, oncology, psychiatry, and pain medicine. 4. Chapters on practical matters: prescribing guidelines, how to identify drug interaction patterns, strategies for reviewing the current literature, and medicolegal concerns. Enhanced by detailed descriptions and clinically based explanations, and complemented by a unique pocket guide to the most common and potent inhibitors and inducers of drug metabolism, this updated concise "how-to" guide will prove indispensable for busy students, teachers, and practitioners in all medically specialties.

An introduction to the concepts and techniques of psychoanalytic psychotherapy, aimed at clinicians seeking to find the best treatment for the pain and suffering of their patients with psychiatric illness. Covered are patient evaluation, resistance, transference, dreams and termination.