1. Thinking about psychiatry; 2. Psychiatric assessment; 3. Symptoms of psychiatric illness; 4. Evidence-based psychiatry; 5. Organic illness; 6. Schizophrenia and related psychoses; 7. Depressive illness; 8. Bipolar illness; 9. Anxiety and stress-related disorders; 10. Eating and impulse-control disorders; 11. Sleep disorders; 12. Reproductive psychiatry, sexual dysfunction and sexuality; 13. Personality disorders; 14. Old age psychiatry; 15. Substance misuse; 16. Child and adolescent psychiatry; 17. Forensic psychiatry; 18. Learning disability; 19. Liaison psychiatry; 20. Psychotherapy; 21. Legal issues; 22. Transcultural psychiatry; 23. Therapeutic issues; 24. Difficult and urgent situations; 25. Useful resources; 26. ICD-10 / DSM-IV index
Dr Roger Smyth was born and educated in Belfast, Northern Ireland
and came to Scotland to study Medicine at the University of
Edinburgh. He trained in Psychiatry in South East Scotland.
Together with a group of friends and colleagues he wrote the first
edition of the Oxford Handbook of Psychiatry. Dr Smyth took up his
first Consultant Psychiatrist post in St John's Hospital,
Livingston in 2004, and moved to the Department of Psychological
Medicine at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh in 2006 to specialise
in Liaison Psychiatry. Dr David Semple was born and educated in
Coleraine, Northern Ireland, studying Medicine at the University of
Edinburgh from 1987-1992. He trained in Psychiatry in the
Borders/South East Scotland during which time he conducted research
funded by Wellcome into the long-term effects of ecstasy. During
his time as a Lecturer/Specialist Registrar based at the Royal
Edinburgh Hospital/University of Edinburgh he wrote the first
edition of the Oxford Handbook of Psychiatry with a group of
friends including close collaborator Dr Roger Smyth. Dr Semple was
appointed to his current post as a Consultant General Adult
Psychiatrist at Hairmyres Hospital in 2004.
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