Overview

A concise textbook for trainee psychiatrists preparing for the MRCPsych and similar exams, covering in one volume all the subjects required for the exam.

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Author:   Padraig Wright ,  Julian Stern ,  Michael Phelan ,  Padraig Wright
Publisher:   Elsevier Health Sciences
Imprint:   W B Saunders Co Ltd
Edition:   2nd Revised edition
Dimensions:   Width: 21.90cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 27.60cm
Weight:   1.860kg
ISBN:  

9780702027185

ISBN 10:   0702027189
Pages:   672
Publication Date:   23 November 2004
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of stock  

Table of Contents

Part 1 The Foundations of Psychiatry - A brief history of psychiatry. Clinical neuroanatomy. Psychiatric genetics. Human personality development. Psychology. Descriptive psychopathology. Social psychiatry and sociology. Cultural psychiatry. Epidemiology. Critical appraisal: reading academic papers and reviewing scientific evidence. Challenges to psychiatry: antipsychiatry, the user movement and stigma. Part 2: Clinical Psychiatry - Psychiatry of learning. Child and adolescent learning. Personality disorders. Anxiety disorders. Psychiatry and general medicine. Eating disorders. Schizophrenia and related disorders. Unipolar depression. Bipolar disorder. Suicide and deliberate self harm. Unusual psychiatric syndromes. Psychiatry and women. Adult sequelae of childhood sexual abuse. Sexual disorders. Organic psychiatry. Drugs and alcohol. Psychoactive drugs other than alcohol. Community psychiatry. Forensic psychiatry. Psychiatry of old age. Part 3: Diagnosis, investigation and treatment - Clinical assessment of psychiatric patients. Classification and diagnosis. Neuroimaging and electroencephalography. Risk assessment and emergency psychiatry. Psychotherapy - individual, family and group. Behavioural and cognitive psychotherapies. ECT and psychosurgies. Psychopharmacology. The law and psychiatry.

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You really do need a textbook for psychiatry and this one works for me. It is comprehensive as a textbook should be but not so voluminous or stuffed with rarefied detail so as to overwhelm (unlike some other textbooks). This is an excellent book which targets its audience...It really seems to have been written with the trainee in mind. BMA Awards 2005 This is not just a textbook for psychiatrists. This is an essential book for all doctors dealing with patients with mental health problems. As a general practioner, this book occupies and deserves its valued place on my consulting room shelf. Univadis medical website

You really do need a textbook for psychiatry and this one works for me. It is comprehensive as a textbook should be but not so voluminous or stuffed with rarefied detail so as to overwhelm (unlike some other textbooks). This is an excellent book which targets its audience...It really seems to have been written with the trainee in mind.<br> BMA Awards 2005 <br>This is not just a textbook for psychiatrists. This is an essential book for all doctors dealing with patients with mental health problems. As a general practioner, this book occupies and deserves its valued place on my consulting room shelf.<br> Univadis medical website

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