Core psychiatry
A new edition of the BMA award winning textbook for trainee psychiatrists, covering in one concise volume all the subjects required for success in the new MRCPsych and similar exam. Written in highly engaging manner, it will also prove invaluable to qualified psychiatrists who need to keep up-to-dat...
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| Language: | English |
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Edinburgh, UK
Saunders Elsevier
2012
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| Edition: | Third edition |
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Table of Contents:
- A brief history of psychiatry
- Clinical neuroanatomy
- Psychiatric genetics
- Human personality development
- Psychology
- Descriptive psychopathology
- Social psychiatry and sociology
- Cultural psychiatry
- Epidemiology
- Critical appraisal: Reviewing scientific evidence and reading academic papers
- Ethics and the law in psychiatry
- Challenges to psychiatry: Antipsychiatry, the user movement and stigma
- Psychiatry of learning disability
- Child and adolescent psychiatry
- Personality disorders
- Anxiety disorders
- Liaison psychiatry and psychosomatic medicine
- Eating disorders
- Schizophrenia and related disorders
- Unipolar depression
- Bipolar disorders
- Suicide and deliberate self-harm
- Unusual psychiatric syndromes
- Gender and sexuality in psychiatry
- Adult sequelae of childhood sexual abuse
- Sexual disorders
- Organic psychiatry and epilepsy
- Alcohol misuse
- Psychoactive drug misuse
- The organization and development of mental health services
- Forensic psychiatry
- Psychiatry of old age
- Clinical examination of psychiatric patients
- Diagnosis and classification in psychiatry
- Electroencephalography and neuroimaging
- Emergency psychiatry
- Psychotherapy
- individual, family and group
- Behavioural and cognitive psychotherapies
- Electroconvulsive therapy and therapeutic neuromodulation.