Textbook of psychiatry

• Main Authors: Puri, Basant K. (Author), Treasaden, I. H. (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Edinburgh Churchill Livingstone/Elsevier 2011
• Edition: THIRD EDITION
• Subjects: Mental Disorders; Psychiatry > methods
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This is a new edition of a successful introductory textbook on the subject of psychiatry. Clearly written and rich in pedagogic features - such as summary boxes, clinical cases and other aid memoirs - this book is tailored to the learning needs of those entering the discipline for the first time. Pa...

Table of Contents:

• The life net
• Classification, aetiology, management, and prognostic factors
• Doctor-patient communication
• History taking and clinical examination
• Organic psychiatry
• Psychoactive substance use disorders
• Schizophrenia and delusional (paranoid) disorders
• Mood disorders, suicide, and parasuicide
• Neurotic and other stress-related disorders
• The dissociative (conversion) and hypochondriasis and other somatoform disorders
• Psychiatry of menstruation and pregnancy
• Psychiatry of sexuality
• Sleep disorders
• Personality disorders
• Child and adolescent psychiatry
• Psychiatry of disability
• Eating disorders
• Transcultural psychiatry
• Psychiatry of the elderly
• Forensic psychiatry.