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Written and edited by leading emergency psychiatrists, this is the first comprehensive text devoted to emergency psychiatry. This text brings together relevant principles from many psychiatric subspecialties—community, consultation/liaison, psychotherapy, substance abuse, psychopharmacology, disaster, child, geriatric, administrative, forensic—as well as from emergency medicine, psychology, law, medical ethics, and public health policy. The emerging field of disaster psychiatry is also addressed. Case studies are used throughout to reinforce key clinical points.





