Multiple Choice Questions for Psychiatric Studies

Outline of the MRCPsych examination part 1 and part 2; before the exam; in the exam; the "art of guessing"; how to use guessing in the test paper; hidden rules in MCQs; MCQ terms translated. MCQs: historical introduction; social science in relation to psychiatry; psychology in relation to psychiatry; personality disorders; biological roots of personality; functional neuroanatomy; neuropharmacology and neuroendocrinology; neurochemistry; the genetics of mental disorders; the psychiatric interview and diagnosis and classification; measurement in psychiatry; epidemiology; organic disorders; epilepsy; schizophrenia; mood disorders; other psychotic disorders; neurotic disorders; personality disorder; mental handicap; suicide and parasuicide; dependence on alcohol and other drugs; psychiatric disorders of childhood, adolescence, childbirth and old age; eating disorders; sexual disorders; disorders of sleep; psychiatry in general practice; psychiatry in general medicine; forensic psychiatry; drug treatments; ECT and other physical therapies; individual psychotherapies; group psychotherapy; family therapy; behavioural and cognitive therapies; crisis intervention and basic counselling; psychiatric rehabilitation. Answers to MCQs. Test paper and answers.