Stedman's Psychiatry Words (4th ed.)

摘要

I have to confess that I had never come across this publication before. When the editor offered it to me I assumed that it was a dictionary of psychiatry. There are innumerable dictionaries of psychiatry, the doyen of which is probably the eighth edition of Campbell (2004) (RR 2004/298). I was not sure that the world really needed another, but I was happy to have a look at it just in case. What it is, however, is exactly what it says on the label: a list of words (and abbreviations and phrases) likely to be used by American psychiatrists, in straight alphabetical order, with absolutely no definitions or explanations.