Concise Oxford Textbook of Psychiatry

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Concise Oxford Textbook of Psychiatry

Michael G. Gelder, Dennis Gath, Richard Mayou

Oxford University Press, 1994

  • : pbk
  • : hbk

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Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

: hbk ISBN 9780192620316

Description

This concise, practical guidebook by the authors of the "Oxford Textbook of Psychiatry (2nd edn)" is for clinical medical students, general practitioners, and other professionals who see patients with psychiatric problems. It focuses on management of psychiatric problems in everyday clinical practice, and advises general clinicians when to manage problems themselves and when to refer to a psychiatrist.

Table of Contents

1.: Signs and symptoms. 2.: Interviewing and clinical evaluation. 3.: Classification. 4.: Aetiology. 5.: Personality and its disorders. 6.: Reactions to stressful experiences. 7.: Neurosis. 8.: Affective disorders. 9.: Schizophrenia and schizophrenia-like disorders. 10.: Paranoid symptoms and paranoid syndromes. 11.: Organic psychiatric disorders. 12.: Psychiatry and medicine. 13.: Suicide and deliberate self-harm. 14.: The abuse of alcohol and drugs. 15.: Problems of sexuality and gender. 16.: Psychiatry of the elderly. 17.: Drugs and other physical treatments. 18.: Psychological treatment. 19.: Psychiatric care in the community. 20.: Child and adolescent psychiatry. 21.: Mental retardation. 22.: Psychiatry and the law. Appendix: The Law in England and Wales
Volume

: pbk ISBN 9780192620323

Description

This concise, practical guidebook by the authors of "Oxford Textbook of Psychiatry (2nd edn)" is for clinical medical students, general practitioners, and other professionals who see patients with psychiatric problems. It focuses on management of psychiatric problems in everyday clinical practice, and advises general clinicians when to manage problems themselves and when to refer to a psychiatrist.

Table of Contents

  • Signs and symptoms
  • Interviewing and clinical evaluation
  • Classification
  • Aetiology
  • Personality and its disorders
  • Reactions to stressful experiences
  • Neurosis
  • Affective disorders
  • Schizophrenia and schizophrenia-like disorders
  • Paranoid symptoms and paranoid syndromes
  • Organic psychiatric disorders
  • Psychiatry and medicine
  • Suicide and deliberate self-harm
  • The abuse of alcohol and drugs
  • Problems of sexuality and gender
  • Psychiatry of the elderly
  • Drugs and other physical treatments
  • Psychological treatment
  • Psychiatric care in the community
  • Child and adolescent psychiatry
  • Mental retardation
  • Psychiatry and the law. Appendix: The Law in England and Wales.

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Details

  • NCID
    BA22400640
  • ISBN
    • 0192620320
    • 0192620312
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Oxford
  • Pages/Volumes
    467 p.
  • Size
    25cm
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