An Introduction to Clinical Psychiatry

The aim of this text is to present a bird's eye view of everyday psychiatry, emphasizing the problems of clinical diagnosis and management within a general practice or a general hospital. Theory and detailed phenomenology are deliberately omitted. Psychotherapy, current drug therapy, sexual problems, combined physical and psychiatric illness, suidice and suicidal attempts are dealt with. So are incidence, aetiology, classification, history taking, formulation, and the major formal categories of mental illness. Each topic has as guide to further reading. This revised text should be of use to social workers, clergymen, nurses, psychiatrists, medical students and general practitioners. Psychotherapy, current drug therapy, sexual problems, combined physical and psychiatric illness, suicide and suicidal attempts are dealt with. So are incidence, aetiology, classification, history taking, formulation, and the major formal categories of mental illness. Each topic has a guide to further reading.