Description: This innovative resource provides a highly visual introduction to the basic principles and practice of psychiatry. Each topic is covered in a single two-page unit to make reference and study uncommonly easy and effective. Abundant full-colour line diagrams, clinical photographs, and MRI images demonstrate essential concepts at a glance.
Table Of Contents: INTRODUCTION
Mental health services I
Mental health services II
Classification in psychiatry
History and aetiology
Mental state examination
Assessment of risk
Management plan and formulation
Mental capacity
The Mental Health Act
TREATMENT IN PSYCHIATRY
Introduction to drug treatments
Prescribing psychotropic drugs
Antipsychotic drugs
Antidepressant drugs
Mood stabilisers and ECT
Benzodiazepines and drugs for dementia
Psychological treatments
Family and social treatments
Recovery and social inclusion
SCHIZOPHRENIA
Diagnosis and classification of schizophrenia
Epidemiology and aetiology of schizophrenia
Acute and chronic schizophrenia
Management of schizophrenia
MOOD DISORDERS
Classification of mood disorders
Aetiology and epidemiology of mood disorders
Bipolar disorder -presentation and management
Depressive disorder -presentation
Depressive disorder - management
NEUROTIC DISORDERS
Anxiety disorders -presentation and aetiology
Anxiety disorders - management
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Reactions to stress
Dissociative and somatoform disorders
PSYCHIATRY AND MEDICINE
Liaison psychiatry
Psychiatry in primary care
Syndromes of cognitive impairment
Neurology and psychiatry
Organic causes of psychiatric symptoms
Eating disorders
Perinatal psychiatry
PERSONALITY DISORDERS
Personality disorders - introduction and classification