Core psychiatry / [edited by] Pádraig Wright, Julian Stern, Michael Phelan.
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TextPublication details: Edinburgh : Elsevier Saunders, 2005.Edition: 2nd edDescription: xii, 652 p. : ill. ; 28 cmISBN: - 9780702027185 (pbk.) :
- 0702024902 (pbk.) :
- 616.89 WRI
- RC454 .C654 2005
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Previous ed.: 2000.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
PART 1: The Foundations of Psychiatry:- 1. A brief history of psychiatry--2. Clinical neuroanatomy--3. Psychiatric genetics--4. Human personality development--5. Psychology--6. Descriptive psychopathology--7. Social psychiatry and sociology--8. Cultural psychiatry--9. Epidemiology--10. Critical appraisal: reading academic papers and reviewing scientific evidence--11. Challenges to psychiatry: antipsychiatry, the user movement and stigma--PART 2: Clinical psychiatry:- 12. Psychiatry of learning disability--13. Child and adolescent psychiatry--Personality disorder--15. Anxiety disorders--16. Liaison psychiatry and psychosomatic medicine--17. Eating disorders--18. Schizophrenia and related disorders--19 Unipolar depression--20. Bipolar disorders--21. Suicide and deliberate self-harm--22. Unusual psychiatric syndromes--23. Psychiatry and women--24. Adult sequelae of childhood sexual abuse--25. Sexual disorders--26. Organic psychiatry and epilepsy-- 27. Alcohol misuse--28. Psychoactive drug misuse--29. Community psychiatry-- 30. Forensic psychiatry--31. Psychiatry of old age-- PART 3: Diagnosis, investigation and treatment:- 32. Clinical examination of psychiatric patients--33. Diagnosis and classification in psychiatry--34. Electroencephalography and neuroimaging--35. Emergency psychiatry--36. Psychotherapy - individual, family and group--37. Behavioural and cognitive psychotherapies--38. Psychopharmacology--39. Psychosurgery and ECT -- 40. Psychiatry, ethics and the law.
Aimed at postgraduate & senior undergraduate students, 'Core Psychiatry' is principally intended as a textbook for candidates preparing for examinations to admit them to membership of the Royal College of Psychiatrists.