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The Oxford Textbook of Psychiatry, rooted in British tradition, offers a more international perspective than U.S. texts, featuring cross‑cultural insights. The book compares ICD‑10 and DSM‑IV criteria throughout, with each of its 22 chapters beginning with introductions that clarify key concepts and organize extensive data. It is praised as a well‑written, pragmatic guide rich in hard‑to‑find clinical tidbits.
This is a well-written textbook with a pragmatic orientation toward practice, chock-full of hard-to-find clinical tidbits. Because of its British roots, the tome is more international in coverage than US texts, such as the Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry/VI (Baltimore, Md: Williams & Wilkins; reviewed in JAMA , March 20, 1996). Accordingly, its pages contain many cross-cultural pearls. Comparisons with the International Statistical Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision (ICD-10) and the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition (DSM-IV) are made throughout. Sometimes authors follow the ICD-10 criteria, other times DSMIV criteria, depending on which they feel are more useful to the clinician; thus, the reader is afforded both classifications. Each of the 22 chapters begins with a useful introduction explaining crucial concepts and principles of the various types of psychiatric disorders, helping the reader to organize the massive amount of data presented. Rather than appearing in a stand-alone chapter,