Psychiatric Clinics of North America is a quarterly peer-reviewed medical journal covering psychiatry and patient management.

[2] Among the first major publishing projects, in the wake of the launch of the journal, was a series of symposiums on chosen subjects in the field of psychiatry.

In 1978 the journal published a symposium on obesity under the editorship of Albert J.

[3] In 1979 the journal published a second volume in liaison psychiatry, under the editorship of Chase Patterson Kimball.

[6] In 1984 the journal published a symposium on multiple personality under the editorship of Bennett G. Braun,[7] and the following year saw the publication of two volumes, first a symposium on Self-Destructive Behavior, edited by Alec Roy,[8] then a volume on Child Psychiatry, edited by J.H Beitchman.