Description :
This Shorter Oxford Textbook of Psychiatry succeeds the Oxford Textbook of Psychiatry, third edition (1996). It continues in the tradition of providing clear, comprehensive and practical coverage of clinical psychiatry specifically tailored to the needs of trainees, as well as providing a useful reference work for psychiatrists in practice and general practitioners. This new edition has been extensively revised and updated with the help of a team of expert advisors; however, it continues to be written by just three authors retaining a uniform style throughout, achieving cohesive and comprehensive coverage. The revision pays particular attention to the considerable advances in knowledge derived from the field of neuroscience, as well as including new chapters on an evidence-based approach to practice, somatoform and dissociative disorders, eating disorders and ethics. The text and layout have been redesigned with greater use of illustrations, tables, lists and summary boxes, and the comprehensive reference section has been revised and brought right up-to-date.
Contents :
1. Signs and symptoms of mental disorder
2. Assessment
3. Ethics and civil law
4. Classification in psychiatry
5. Aeitology
6. Evidence-based approaches to psychiatry
7. Personality and personality disorder
8. Reactions to stressful experiences
9. Anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorders
10. Somatoform and dissociative disorders
11. Mood disorders
12. Schizophrenia and schizophrenia-like disorders
13. Paranoid symptoms and paranoid syndromes
14. Neuropsychiatry and sleep disorders
15. Eating disorders
16. Psychiatry and medicine
17. Suicide and deliberate self harm
18. The misuse of alcohol and drugs
19. Problems related to sexuality and gender identity
20. Psychiatry of the elderly
21. Drugs and other physical treatments
22. Psychological treatment
23. Psychiatric services
24. Child Psychiatry
25. Learning disability (mental retardation)
26. Forensic psychiatry
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