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<b>Study Guide and Self-Examination Review for Synopsis of Psychiatry and Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry</b>, by Harold I. Kaplan and Benjamin J. Sadock, 4thed, 442pp, ISBN0-683-04535-0, Baltimore, Md, Williams &amp; Wilkins, 1991. <b>Pocket Handbook of Clinical Psychiatry</b>, by Harold I. Kaplan and Benjamin J. Sadock, 335 pp, ISBN 0-683-04523-7, Baltimore, Md, Williams &amp; Wilkins, 1990. <b>Comprehensive Glossary of Psychiatry and Psychology</b>, by Harold I. Kaplan and Benjamin J. Sadock, 215 pp, paper $14.95, ISBN 0-683-04527-X, Baltimore, Md, Williams &amp; Wilkins, 1991. Other physicians have complained for years that psychiatrists speak an idiosyncratic and generally incomprehensible language that excludes them from the mainstream of medicine. The decline of psychoanalysis and the "remedicalization" of psychiatry have helped reopen the dialogue among psychiatrists, their patients, and their medical peers. Crucial to this process has been the availability of psychiatric textbooks that synthesize (or gloss over) the internal contradictions of current psychiatric theory and present

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