Professionalism in Psychiatry Bonnie E. Litowitz and Other Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviors

and Other Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviors seeks to remedy this situation by synthesizing the latest research on body-focused repetitive disorders and presenting it in a systematic

will help psychiatric trainees and educators alike to make sense of the complex clinical situations they encounter and guide them to advance their skills as clinicians and educators

it examines how speakers employ various discourse-level resources to structure interaction and create meaning

Critical information clinicians need in order to read the clinical signs in their patients and predict the "switch" from unipolar to bipolar disorder

and treatment of substance use disorders and other addictions within the DSM-5 (R) framework

Professionalism in Psychiatry Bonnie E. Litowitz and Other Body-Focused Repetitive BehaviorsPhysicians and psychiatrists typically see themselves as true professionals. But in the past, some displayed behavior far beneath the confines of professionalism, including exploding at nurses, not returning calls, or conducting insensitive interactions with patients, that was usually tolerated and seldom disciplined. Today, the rise of professionalism in medicine in general and psychiatry in particular has prompted a quiet revolution in how doctors