**Selected as a Doody’s Essential Title for 2025!**

Accurate, reliable, objective, and comprehensive, *Kaplan & Sadock’s Synopsis of Psychiatry* has long been the leading clinical psychiatric resource for clinicians, residents, students, and other healthcare professionals in the United States and around the world. Now led by a new editorial team of Drs. Robert Boland and Marcia L. Verduin, it continues to provide a trusted overview of the entire field of psychiatry while incorporating the latest information on key topics and developments in this complex specialty. The twelfth edition has been completely reorganized to make it more useful and easier to navigate in today’s busy clinical settings.

* A revised table of contents places the most clinically relevant material at the beginning of the book, including sections on diagnosis, psychopathology and psychiatric conditions, treatment across the lifespan, and therapy and other interventions.
* Reformatted clinical chapters feature clearer section headings and concise summaries of key information, making it easier to quickly locate answers to specific clinical questions.
* Includes numerous case studies to enhance understanding and reinforce clinical learning.
* Presents the latest treatment approaches, including descriptions of modern psychotherapeutic techniques.
* Features descriptive tables for all relevant DSM-5 and ICD-10 diagnoses, along with an up-to-date psychopharmacology section organized by mechanisms of action.
* Continues the tradition of excellence established by Drs. Benjamin J. Sadock and Virginia A. Sadock, with Dr. Pedro Ruiz returning as Consulting Editor.