Foundations of clinical psychiatry. 3rd ed. Sidney Bloch, Bruce S Singh, editors. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2007 (xii + 642 pp). ISBN 978 0 522 85320 9.

A good textbook of psychiatry is hard to find. Not only does such a book have to be well written, but its editors need to think carefully about what information is of relevance and vital to today’s trainee.