Publisher's Synopsis
Providing clinical descriptions, diagnostic guidelines and codes for all mental and behavioural disorders commonly encountered in clinical psychiatry, this book has been developed from chapter V of the 10th revision of "The International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD-10)". The clinical descriptions and diagnostic guidelines were finalized after extensive field-testing by over 700 clinicians and researchers in 110 institutes in 40 countries.;The classification divides disorders into ten groups according to major common themes or descriptive likeness, a new feature aimed at increased convenience of use. For each disorder, the book provides a detailed description of the main clinical features and other important but less specific associated features.
