The third edition of this award-winning book offers an accessible and fun way of learning about the basic principles and practice of psychiatry.
Psychiatry:: An Illustrated Colour Text, Third Edition provides a highly visual experience, with each topic covered across two pages that you can review and digest easily. For each spread there are summary boxes, questions and answers and self-assessment tasks that will help with understanding and revision.
This wonderful book covers a wide range of subjects, from mental health services to different treatments, the full range of disorders, and psychiatry specialisations. It thus provides an ideal introduction to psychiatry for medical students or anyone learning about mental health for the first time.
Introduction 1. Mental health services I 2. Mental health services II 3. Classification in psychiatry 4. History and aetiology 5. Mental state examination 6. Assessment of risk 7. Management plan and formulation 8. Psychiatry in primary care 9. Mental capacity 10. The Mental Health Act
Treatment in Psychiatry 11. Introduction to drug treatments 12. Prescribing psychotropic drugs 13. Antipsychotic drugs 14. Antidepressant drugs 15. Mood stabilisers, benzodiazepines and ECT 16. Psychological treatments 17. Family and social treatments 18. Recovery and social inclusion
Schizophrenia 19. Diagnosis and classification of schizophrenia 20. Epidemiology and aetiology of schizophrenia 21. Acute and chronic schizophrenia 22. Management of schizophrenia
Mood Disorders 23. Classification of mood disorders 24. Epidemiology and aetiology of mood disorders 25. Bipolar disorder - clinical presentation and management 26. Depressive disorder - clinical presentation 27. Depressive disorder - management
Anxiety and Related Disorders 28. Anxiety- and fear-related disorders - clinical presentation and aetiology 29. Anxiety- and fear-related disorders - management 30. Obsessive-compulsive disorders 31. Disorders associated with stress 32. Dissociative and bodily distress disorders