Core Psychiatry
2nd Edition
Published on 23. November 2004
Book
Paperback/Softback
672 pages
978-0-7020-2718-5 (ISBN)
Description
This book was highly commended (Mental Health category) for the BMA Awards, 2005. It is 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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Series
Edition
2nd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Elsevier Health Sciences
Target group
College/higher education
Trainee psychiatrists, especially those sitting exams such as the MRCPsych.
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
58 ills.
Dimensions
Height: 276 mm
Width: 219 mm
Weight
1860 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7020-2718-5 (9780702027185)
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Padraig Wright | Julian Stern | Michael Phelan
Core Psychiatry
Book
02/2012
3rd Edition
Saunders
€112.84
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Content
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.