[I]t is a thorough and eminently readable account of the many ways a clinician can treat the patient who is not getting better. Psychiatric Services An incisive, well-written and nearly comprehensive guide to patients for whom treatment failure appears a likely outcome. Perhaps the most valuable element of The Difficult-to-Treat Psychiatric Patient is the overall tone of the volume. The editors manage to convey both sympathy and reassurance for psychiatrists who are faced with especially challenging patients... In short, [this book] is an extremely valuable reference work to which psychiatrists should refer early and often during periods of therapeutic frustration. Michael Brodsky, M.D., Metapsychology Online Book Reviews