Table of Contents

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. Disorders of behaviour; 11. Personality disorders; 12. Old-age psychiatry; 13. Substance misuse; 14. Child and adolescent psychiatry; 15. Forensic psychiatry; 16. Learning disability; 17. Liaison psychiatry; 18. Psychotherapy; 19. Legal and ethical issues; 20. Transcultural psychiatry; 21. Therapeutic issues; 22. Difficult and urgent situations; 23. Useful addresses; 24. ICD-10/DSM-IV index

Reviews

If I was considering a career in psychiatry beyond medical school, this would definitely be the book that I'd go for... medicworld.co.uk ... the Oxford Handbook of Psychiatry provides medical students and beginning psychiatrists with a solid overview of the core tenets of adult psychiatry. ... This book is a solid contender in a sea of similar handbooks, and readers will find that its periodic British nomenclature does not compromise its applicability to American psychiatry. ... the Oxford Handbook of Psychiatry offers an impressive breadth of evidence-based material and will undoubtedly be a resource found in the pockets of many practitioners. PsycCRITIQUES If you could afford only one psychiatry book, this is it! The wealth of useful/practical information that this little book contains (and that could fit into your white coat pocket) is remarkable. Doody's Journal