The Concepts of Psychiatry

"I’m looking for books that provide a coherent conceptual structure for psychiatry--ones that will permit us to advance rather than retreat, toward a future we can eagerly anticipate. Dr. Ghaemi has written such a book. It provides what I seek and what I know students and leaders of this discipline need... Read here and see the future--not darkly and indistinctly hoping for inspiration, but face to face with the methods and practices that will bring the future to pass."

--Paul R. McHugh, M.D., Former Chairman, Department of Psychiatry, Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Author of The Perspectives of Psychiatry

"Wide ranging and extraordinarily informed, Dr. Ghaemi gives us an indispensable guide to the difficulties and dilemmas of psychiatric work, plus the roadmap for a pluralistic future. A work of truly unusual intelligence."

--Leston L. Havens, M.D.
Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Author of Approaches to the Mind; A Safe Place; Coming to Life; Learning to be Human