Modern clinical psychiatry. [The beginnings of psychiatry -- Development of dynamic psychiatry -- Personality development -- Adaptive processes and mental mechanisms -- Psychopathology -- The causes and nature of mental disorders -- Examination of the patient -- Disorders caused by or associated with impairment of brain tissue function -- Brain syndromes resulting from drug or poison intoxication -- Alcoholism and alcoholic psychoses -- Mental disorders caused by or associated with head trauma -- Acute brain syndromes associated with metabolic disturbances -- Chronic brain disorders -- Mental disturbances with other forms of syphilis of the central nervous system -- Brain syndromes associated with chronic arteriosclerosis ]

Philadelphia, Saunders, 1963, 1963. Good. 6th ed. ; viii, 586 p. ; LCCN: 63-9492 ; LC: RC454; Dewey: 616.89; NLM: WM 100 ; OCLC: 1559343 ; blue cloth ; no dustjacket ; signature on front ep of Dr. John Leonard Pyron (1916-2005), who, with degrees from Birmingham Southern University in 1936 and a Masters in Education from the University of Florida, taught in Florida high schools from 1936-1946, until he attended Emory University and received a degree in dentistry in 1948. In 1998, Emory recognized him for 50 continuous years of service in dentistry ; Contents: The beginnings of psychiatry -- Development of dynamic psychiatry -- Personality development -- Adaptive processes and mental mechanisms -- Psychopathology -- The causes and nature of mental disorders -- Examination of the patient -- Disorders caused by or associated with impairment of brain tissue function -- Brain syndromes resulting from drug or poison intoxication -- Alcoholism and alcoholic psychoses -- Mental disorders caused by or associated with head trauma -- Acute brain syndromes associated with metabolic disturbances -- Chronic brain disorders -- Mental disturbances with other forms of syphilis of the central nervous system -- Brain syndromes associated with chronic arteriosclerosis -- Brain syndromes associated with convulsive disorders (epilepsy) -- Senile psychoses -- Chronic brain syndromes associated with disturbance of metabolism, growth or nutrition -- Chronic brain syndrome associated with intracranial neoplasm -- Chronic brain syndromes associated with diseases of unknown or uncertain cause -- Mental deficiency -- Disorders of psychogenic origin -- Psychotic disorders: involutional psychotic reactions -- Psychotic disorders: affective reactions -- Psychotic disorders: schizophrenic reactions -- Psychotic disorders: paranoid reactions -- Psychophysicological autonomic and visceral disorders -- Psychoneurotic disorders -- Drug addiction -- Child psychology -- Psychotherapy -- Pharmacological therapy -- Shock and other physical therapies -- Psychiatry and the law. ; G