How do you make a really good thing even better? This was the problem facing Mary Ann Cohen, M.D., and the other editors and authors of the second edition of the Comprehensive Textbook of AIDS Psychiatry. And it is not a small problem. A second edition usually incorporates the updated information in the field: New research findings, updated treatment recommendations, tables of side-effects and drug-drug interactions are the expected fare. Nothing more is anticipated, and what emerges is a longer, more boring version of the first edition of the textbook. What the authors have done here, however, is nothing short of a rethinking and rewriting of an already informative and useful text to reflect the evolution of health care and to extend our current understanding that best practices should include an integrated approach to care.

More specifically, as the authors state in the first section of the textbook, best practices in the field of delivering psychiatric care to AIDS