APPI: Where Psychiatry's Past, Present, and Future Meet

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Back to table of contents Previous article Next article The Medical Director's DeskFull AccessAPPI: Where Psychiatry's Past, Present, and Future MeetJames H. Scully Jr., M.D.James H. Scully Jr.Search for more papers by this author, M.D.Published Online:1 Sep 2006https://doi.org/10.1176/pn.41.17.0004As you know, APA's publishing arm, American Psychiatric Publishing Inc. (APPI), is at the leading edge of our profession, publishing ground-breaking and clinically useful psychiatric research. But APPI is a treasure trove of history as well. Recently, APPI offered a wonderful gift to history lovers: the Psychiatry Legacy Collection, which makes over a century and a half of psychiatric research and clinical information easily accessible online. The project includes a collection of 162 years' worth of the American Journal of Psychiatry, which from 1844 to 1921 was published as the American Journal of Insanity.This rich collection can be accessed at<www.journals.psychiatryonline.org/>, psychiatry's equivalent of the great Library of Alexandria. By virtue of being online, our collection is widely available around the clock and around the world. APPI CEO Ron McMillen and his team have done a terrific job at putting this resource—some 20,000 articles—at our fingertips.In addition, the collection includes five other peer-reviewed journals from APA and APPI: Academic Psychiatry, Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, Journal of Psychotherapy Practice and Research, Psychiatric Services, and Psychosomatics.For the most part, the journals in the collection go back to their first issue.Most APA members and subscribers have free access to the collection once they have activated the online portion of their subscription.Other Publishing NewsThe APA annual meeting adds life and depth to our field: research papers are presented by investigators, journal readers are there to engage and ask questions, the APPI bookstore moves beyond its usual online realm—you can pick up and peruse the latest titles and meet some of the authors. APPI always draws a big crowd to “publishers row” in the exhibit hall.You might be interested to know that the five best-selling books sold at APA's 2006 annual meeting in Toronto were these:Quick Reference to the American Psychiatric Association Practice Guidelines for the Treatment of Psychiatric DisordersLearning Cognitive-Behavior Therapy: An Illustrated Guide, by Jesse H. Wright, M.D., Ph.D., Monica R. Basco, Ph.D., and Michael E. Thase, M.D., with Glen o. Gabbard, M.D., as series editorBipolar Depression: A Comprehensive Guide, edited by Rif S. El-Mallakh, M.D., and S. Nassir Ghaemi, M.D.Essentials of Clinical Psychopharmacology, edited by Alan F. Schatzberg, M.D., and Charles B. Nemeroff, M.D., Ph.D.The American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Schizophrenia, edited by Jeffrey A. Lieberman, M.D., and T. Scott Stroup, M.D.These are superb books, each contributing substantially to our knowledge base and practice. You can explore these and other offerings at<www.appi.org/>.Also on the Web is PsychiatryOnline— the portal from APPI that unifies access to journals, DSM-IV-TR, and other key texts. Despite its newness, it has more than 1,000 subscribers, including more than 700 APA members. Are you one of them? This is a great and growing resource that now has a new feature—“Book of the Month,” which provides free electronic access (via PDF) to a new APPI book each month.I hope you enjoy the many ways that APPI brings knowledge to us all.▪James H. Scully Jr., M.D., is medical director and CEO of APA. ISSUES NewArchived