October brings access to a free PDF version of this featured book from the APPI Bookstore:  Clinical Manual of Pediatric Psychosomatic Medicine, by Richard J. Shaw, M.B., B.S., and David R. DeMaso, M.D. The mental health assessment and treatment of youngsters with physical symptoms and illnesses commonly pose unique and often complex challenges to clinicians. [...]

August brings access to a free PDF version of this featured book from the APPI Bookstore: The Difficult-to-Treat Psychiatric Patient, edited by Mantosh J. Dewan, M.D., and Ronald W. Pies, M.D. Why do some psychiatric patients fail to get better, even when in the care of competent clinicians? Treatment-refractory conditions are all too common in [...]

July brings access to a free PDF version of this featured book from the APPI Bookstore: Clinical Manual of Women’s Mental Health by Vivien K. Burt, M.D., Ph.D., and Victoria C. Hendrick, M.D. This comprehensive update of the popular second edition of the authors’ Concise Guide to Women’s Mental Health provides the latest evidence-based medical [...]

June brings access to a free PDF version of this featured book from the APPI Bookstore:  Clinical Manual for Management of Bipolar Disorder in Children and Adolescents by Robert A. Kowatch, M.D., Mary A. Fristad, Ph.D., ABPP, Robert L. Findling, M.D., and Robert M. Post, M.D. Written in response to the growing body of knowledge [...]

May brings access to a free PDF version of this featured book from the APPI Bookstore:  Stress-Induced and Fear Circuitry Disorders edited by Gavin Andrews, M.D., Dennis S. Charney, M.D., Paul J. Sirovatka, M.S., and Darrel A. Regier, M.D., M.P.H. As disorders in which stress or fear play major roles present an increasing need for [...]

March brings access to a free PDF version of this featured book from the APPI Bookstore: Resident’s Guide to Clinical Psychiatry edited by Lauren B. Marangell, M.D. The resident’s job is as challenging as it is critical to patient care, and perhaps no specialty is as daunting to the beginning clinician as psychiatry. This book [...]

As subscribers to PsychiatryOnline, Pepperdine University Libraries  get access each month to a free PDF version of a featured book from the APPI Bookstore.  December’s book is Transforming Mental Health Services: Implementing the Federal Agenda for Change edited by Howard H. Goldman, M.D., Ph.D., Jeffrey A. Buck, Ph.D., and Kenneth S. Thompson, M.D. This compendium of [...]

As subscribers to PsychiatryOnline, Pepperdine University Libraries  get access each month to a free PDF version of a featured book from the APPI Bookstore.  The November book is Somatic Presentations of Mental Disorders: Refining the Research Agenda for DSM-V, edited by Joel E. Dimsdale, M.D., F.A.P.M., Yu Xin, M.D., Arthur Kleinman, M.D., Vikram Patel, Ph.D., [...]