Campbell's Psychiatric Dictionary [Hardcover]

Robert Jean Campbell (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0195152212 | ISBN-13: 978-0195152210 | Publication Date: October 30, 2003 | Edition: 8

The eighth edition of this authoritative and highly acclaimed dictionary continues to pursue its goal of keeping readers abreast of new developments in psychiatry. Technological advances have enabled researchers to trace neurotransmission, to uncover the mechanisms of drug action, and to monitor brain activity in real time. Psychiatry has increasingly embraced the neurosciences in studies of learning and memory, sleep and dreaming, and behavioural genetics. There has been cross-fertilization with different fields - among them pharmacology, physiology, biochemistry, and experimental and developmental psychology - and many terms from those disciplines have been incorporated into the Dictionary. This thoroughly revised edition reflects achievements not only in the basic sciences but also in their practical application, as well as changes in the organization and delivery of health care. It covers the full range of treatments for mental illness including psychopharmacologic agents, psychoanalysis, behaviour therapy, cognitive therapy, interpersonal therapy, and other brief therapies. Studies of different forms and combinations of treatments continue to refine and individualize approaches to the particular patient. To make all of this meaningful to mental health professionals and to those outside that field who are interested in what psychiatry is doing to meet the needs of patients, the editor has retained the encyclopaedic approach to the definition of important terms. The eighth edition will be invaluable to psychiatrists and neurologists (and their students and trainees), to psychologists, nurses, social workers, counsellors, lawyers, claims reviewers, and to the lay reader.

Editorial Reviews

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From reviews of previous editions:

"If you frequently read contemporary psychiatric, psychological, or sociologic literature, you should own this dictionary. That it has continued into the seventh edition is probably more convincing praise than I can give. If you own the sixth edition, you should consider buying the new one: Campbell has added more than 2000 new terms and has taken pains to incorporate new terms and diagnostic criteria from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual IV of the American Psychiatric Association. And for a book this size and content, its price is eminently fair."--Edward J. Huth, M.D., in Annals of Internal Medicine

"Once again, Dr. Campbell has produced a work of prodigious scholarship that belongs on the shelf of every trainee and in every psychiatric clinic." --JAMA

"One of the stated aims of this work is to provide a dictionary that is comprehensible to the nonspecialist, and Campbell achieves that aim. For this reason, this work is recommended for libraries supporting degree programs in psychology, counseling, and social work. As for selection by medical school libraries, the dictionary is a must..."--Penny Pagangelis in American Reference

About the Author

Robert J. Campbell is at Weill-Cornell Medical College, NY.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 728 pages
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; 8 edition (October 30, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0195152212
• ISBN-13: 978-0195152210
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 7.1 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.9 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,256,350 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great book to have if you work in psychiatry, October 16, 2007

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This review is from: Campbell's Psychiatric Dictionary (Hardcover)

As a person who works in the psychiatric field, You can only remember so many terms before the brain turns off. Many of the older physicians use terms used years ago from the days pre-DSM or DSM I or II. Or, if you work around some of the psychoanalysts, they use terms all the time that just aren't used practically. Well, this dictionary is very helpful to look that stuff up in. much easier to navigate than the big bible of psychiatry, Kaplan and Saddock, and definitely more helpful that the DSM-IV, which doens't do squat to define a thing...it assumes you know what they are talking about. So no matter what level you are, Tech, nurse, student, resident, or Doctor, this is a great book to have in those slow moment of memory.

3.0 out of 5 stars Maybe I should read books before I rate them!, September 4, 2011

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This review is from: Campbell's Psychiatric Dictionary (Hardcover)

I always thought this the definitive dictionary for psychiatry and certainly it is hors concours and very useful as a companion particularly in training (I say this with the wisdom of hindsight).

That said, I just opened my fresh copy of the most recent edition of Campbell's and read the entry of "psychosis", every definition but the correct one and no citation to support his eccentric and dated definitions. That's not good. Then I found a weird error under "Creutzfeldt-Jakob", he lists another name for this as "Heidenheim disease", at the same time that he lists the Heidenhain variant. I know the Heidenhain variant, the other is a misprint or misunderstanding and does not exist. If you Google the term "Heidenheim disease", only his own book comes up for example. Oops.

Numerous other mistakes or omissions: he includes a definition for "secondary delusion" without ever defining "primary delusion", though he refers to it and it is a critical term. One buggaboo I have with books that provide historical bios: he identifies a historical figure as a "psychiatrist" or a "neurologist" or as a "neuropsychiatrist" without ever defining these terms, reinforcing inaccurate stereotypes that are a product of outdated understandings. Under the entry for "Wagner-Jauregg", he doesnt even mention he won the Nobel Prize.

So use it but don't take it as definitive, particularly because he is not supporting his entries with a citation.