Fifteen new WPA books have just been published or are going to be published during the year 2002.
The fifth and sixth volume of the series "Evidence & Experience in Psychiatry", dealing respectively with bipolar disorder and eating disorders, are forthcoming. This series, published by J. Wiley & Sons, aims to compare research evidence and clinical experience concerning the diagnosis and management of the most common mental disorders. The background of the series is the acknowledgement of the substantial gap still existing in psychiatry between research evidence and clinical practice: clinicians are sometimes incompletely aware of research findings, or regard them as biased, not convincing or not relevant to their practice. Each volume of the series covers a specific mental disorder, by means of a set of systematic reviews of the available research evidence, each followed by many commentaries produced by psychiatrists from many countries and belonging to different schools of thought. The first four volumes of the series - dealing respectively with depressive disorders, schizophrenia, dementia and obsessive-compulsive disorder - are now sold out and are being reprinted. The royalties from the sales of those volumes have been the second most important source of income for the WPA in the years 2000 and 2001. The tables of contents of the two new volumes are presented in Tables 1 and 2.
Table 1.
Contents of “Bipolar Disorder”, fifth volume of the WPA series “Evidence & Experience in Psychiatry”
| Classification, Diagnosis and Boundaries - Systematic review: H.S. Akiskal. Commentaries: J. Angst, P. Bech, R.H. Belmaker, M. Bourgeois, G.B. Cassano, D. Dunner, M.L. Figueira, S. Gershon, R.M.A. Hirschfeld, D.S. Janowsky, T. Kato, M. Keller, W.A. Nolen, Z. Rihmer, C. Stefanis, S. Strakowski, A.C. Swann, P.C. Whybrow. |
| Prognosis - Systematic review: A. Marneros et al. Commentaries: W. Coryell, M. Harrow, L. Kessing, A. Koukopoulos, B. Lerer, G.S. Leverich, P.P. Roy-Byrne, T. Silverstone, D.A. Solomon, M. Tohen, L. Tondo, M.T. Tsuang, C.L. Turvey, E. Vieta, T.A. Wehr. |
| Pharmacological Treatment - Systematic review: C. Bowden. Commentaries: C. Andrade, R. Baldessarini, M. Berk, J. Calabrese, K.N.R. Chengappa, A. Gelenberg, W. Greil, P. Grof, H. Grunze, S. Kasper, R. Joffe, B.E. Leonard, R.W. Licht, J. Rybakowski, G. Sachs, J.C. Soares, T. Suppes, P. Vestergaard, S. Walton, A. Young, C.A. Zarate. |
| Psychosocial Interventions - Systematic review: M. Bauer. Commentaries: G.A. Fava, P.J. Goodnick, A. Heerlein, N. Huxley, S.L. Johnson, G.I. Keitner, A.G. Mallinger, J. Miklowitz, D. Moussaoui, A. Palmer, Y. Papakostas, S.V. Parikh, E. Paykel, B. Rothbaum, C. Salzman, H.A. Swartz, M.E. Thase. |
| Effects of Gender and Age on Phenomenology and Management - Systematic review: K.I. Shulman et al. Commentaries: J. Allilaire, E. Belfort, C. Berganza, C. Borchardt, G.A. Carlson, S.V. Faraone, B. Geller, J.N. Giedd, G. Goodwin, C.G. Gottfries, V. Kusumakar, E. Leibenluft, P.M. Lewinsohn, Y.C.J. Reddy, R.R. Silva, E.B. Weller. |
| Economic and Social Burden - Systematic review: J. Goldberg. Commentaries: P. Clayton, M. DelBello, J.R. DePaulo, M.J. Gitlin, P.E. Keck, J.H. Kocsis, P.L. Morselli, A. Okasha, G. Parker, G. Simon, D. Souery, J. Unutzer, J.E. Whiteside. |
Table 2.
Contents of “Eating Disorders”, sixth volume of the WPA series “Evidence & Experience in Psychiatry”
| Diagnosis, Classification and Comorbidities - Systematic review: K.A. Halmi. Commentaries: S. Abraham, A. Andersen, L. Bellodi, T. D. Brewerton, K. D. Brownell, A. Claudino, D. Clinton, P. J. Cooper, M. Fichter, M. Flament, H. Matsunaga, D. Westen. |
| Epidemiology and Cultural Aspects - Systematic review: H.W. Hoek. Commentaries: J. Carlat, S. Cervera, A. Drewnowski, A. Furnham, G. Hsu, S. Lee, D. Moussaoui, Y. Nakai, M. A. Nunes, A. Okasha, R. Peng, P. Santonastaso, H. C. Steinhausen, S. Tyano, S. Wonderlich, B. Woodside. |
| Physical Complications and Physiological Aberrations - Systematic review: A. Kaplan. Commentaries: B. Baranowska, W. Kaye, D. Jimerson, K.L. Klump, R.G. Laessle, A. Marcos, G. Milos, P. Monteleone, Y. Nakai, J. Russell, R. Stoving, J. Treasure. |
| Pharmacological Treatment - Systematic review: M. de Zwaan. Commentaries: J. C. Appolinario, J. Bacaltchuk, P. Beaumont, R. H. Belmaker, C. Bergh, J.E. Blundell, F. Brambilla, C. Freeman, J. Mitchell, C.P. Szabo, T. Walsh. |
| Psychological Interventions - Systematic review: T. Wilson. Commentaries: E. Asen, M. Botbol, R. Casper, T. Cordas, P. Hay, P. Jeammet, H. Lacey, M. Lawrence, S. Touyz, N. A. Troop, E. F. van Furth, G. Waller, D.E. Wilfley. |
| Social and Economic Burden - Systematic review: S. Crow. Commentaries: S. Agras, A. Crisp, A. Favaro, P.E. Garfinkel, A. Liakos, R. Palmer, N. Piran, P. Powers, M. Rästam, R. Striegel-Moore, L. J. Surgenor. |
Three more forthcoming volumes published by J. Wiley & Sons will deal respectively with the future of psychiatric diagnosis and classification, the changing social contexts of psychiatry, and psychiatry as a neuroscience. These volumes are based in part on lectures delivered at the 11th World Congress of Psychiatry. In fact, the WPA Executive Committee decided not to produce the usual ponderous volumes containing the proceedings of the World Congress, but to select the most innovative presentations and build from them three high-quality thematic volumes. In order to ensure comprehensiveness, some key issues in the relevant areas not adequately represented in the programme of the World Congress have been covered by additional contributions. The tables of contents of the three volumes are presented in Tables 3-5.
Table 3.
Contents of the volume “Psychiatric Diagnosis and Classification”
| A. Jablensky, R.E. Kendell - Criteria for assessing a classification in psychiatry |
| B. Ustun et al. - International classifications and the diagnosis of mental disorders: strengths, limitations and future perspectives |
| D. Regier et al. - The APA classification of mental disorders: strengths, limitations and future perspectives |
| C.R. Cloninger - Implications of comorbidity for the classification of mental disorders: the need for a psychobiology of coherence |
| H. Fabrega Jr. - Evolutionary theory, culture and psychiatric diagnosis |
| J. Parnas, D. Zahavi - The role of phenomenology in psychiatric diagnosis and classification |
| J. Mezzich et al. - Multiaxial diagnosis in psychiatry |
| C. Pull et al. - Clinical assessment instruments in psychiatry |
| D. Goldberg et al. - Psychiatric diagnosis and classification in primary care |
| N. Wig, S. Murthy - Psychiatric diagnosis and classification in developing countries |
Table 5.
Contents of the volume “Psychiatry as a Neuroscience”
| P. McGuffin - Genetic research in psychiatry |
| S. Stahl, A.B. Niculescu - Molecular and cellular biology research in psychiatry |
| G. Sedvall, S. Pauli - Brain imaging research in psychiatry |
| C.B. Nemeroff, D.A. Gutman - Neuroendocrinological research in psychiatry |
| J.H. Gruzelier et al. - Neurophysiological research in psychiatry |
| K. Ritchie, M. Richards - Neuropsychological research in psychiatry |
| F.M. Benes, C.A. Tamminga - The neurobiology of schizophrenia |
| T.W. Uhde, R. Singareddy - Biological research in anxiety disorders |
| S. Lovestone - Biological research on dementias |
One volume has just appeared and five more are forthcoming within the series "Images of Psychiatry", which aims to provide a picture of the past and the present of psychiatry in individual countries or groups of countries, covering such issues as mental health care, psychiatric education, psychiatric research, epidemiology of psychiatric disorders, child and adolescent psychiatry and geriatric psychiatry. The already published volume deals with Arab countries; the forthcoming ones deal with German-speaking countries, Latin America, Spain, Poland and Greece.
Finally, one volume has just been published and three more are forthcoming within the series "Anthologies in Psychiatry", which contains classical psychiatric texts never appeared up to now in English, accompanied by essays on their authors. The already published volume contains classical texts originally produced in Spanish; the forthcoming ones include texts originally produced in German, Italian and Japanese.
Further information on WPA books can be requested from the Secretary for Publications (majmario@tin.it).
Table 4.
Contents of the volume “Psychiatry in Society”
| L. Eisenberg - The impact of sociocultural and economic changes on psychiatry |
| H. Hafner - Changes in health care systems and their impact on mental health care |
| G. Lewis, R. Araya - Globalization and mental health |
| J.M. Bertolote et al. - The impact of legislation on mental health policy |
| A. Okasha - The new ethical context of psychiatry |
| P. Bebbington et al. - Community mental health care: promises and pitfalls |
| H. Katschnig, M. Krautgartner - Quality of life - a new dimension in mental health care |
| B. Saraceno et al. - Mental health problems in refugees |
| V. Kovess - The homeless mentally ill |
| E. Bromet, J.M. Havenaar - Mental health consequences of disasters |
| O. Cuenca - Mass-media and psychiatry |