Table of Contents

1. Symptoms and signs of psychiatric disorders; 2. Classification and diagnosis; 3. Assessment; 4. Ethics and civil law; 5. Aetiology; 6. Evidence-based approaches to psychiatry; 7. Personality and personality disorder; 8. Reactions to stressful experiences; 9. Anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorders; 10. Somatoform and dissociative disorders; 11. Mood disorders; 12. Schizophrenia and schizophrenia-like disorders; 13. Paranoid symptoms and delusional disorders; 14. Dementia, delirium and other neuropsychiatric disorders; 15. Eating disorders and sleep disorders; 16. Psychiatry and medicine; 17. Suicide and deliberate self-harm; 18. The misuse of drugs and alcohol; 19. Problems related to sexuality and gender identity; 20. Psychiatry of the elderly; 21. Drugs and other physical treatment; 22. Psychological treatment; 23. Psychiatric services; 24. Child psychiatry; 25. Learning disability (mental retardation); 26. Forensic psychiatry

Reviews

This is an essential introductory book, best suited for psychiatric trainees, especially those preparing for the examinations. This book presents core psychiatric knowledge in a format suitable for medical students and non-psychiatrist doctors as well as psychologists, social workers, nurses and even mental health managers. I would recommend the Shorter Oxford Textbook of Psychiatry, 5th edition for every trainee in psychiatry... Psychological Medicine