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Shorter Oxford textbook of psychiatry / Paul Harrison, Philip Cowen, Tom Burns, Mina Fazel

By: Harrison, P. J. (Paul J.), 1960-Contributor(s): Cowen, Philip [author] | Burns, Tom, 1946- [author.] | Fazel, Mina [author]Material type: TextTextEdition: Seventh editionDescription: 884 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmISBN: 9780198747437; 0198747438Subject(s): Psychiatry -- Textbooks | Mental illness | Troubles mentaux | Mental Disorders | Psychiatry -- methodsDDC classification: 616.89 LOC classification: RC454 | .G42 2018NLM classification: 2018 B-133 | WM 140
Contents:
Signs and symptoms of psychiatric disorders -- Classification -- Assessment -- Ethics and civil law -- Aetiology -- Evidence-based approaches to psychiatry -- Reactions to stressful experiences -- Anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorders -- Depression -- Bipolar disorder -- Schizophrenia -- Paranoid symptoms and syndromes -- Eating, sleep and sexual disorders
Dementia, delirium, and other neuropsychiatric disorders -- Personality and personality disorder -- Child psychiatry -- Intellectual disability -- Forensic psychiatry -- Psychiatry of the elderly -- The misuse of alcohol and drugs -- Suicide and deliberate self-harm -- Psychiatry and medicine -- Global psychiatry -- Psychological treatments -- Drugs and other physical treatments -- Psychiatric services
Summary: This volume provides an introduction to all the clinical topics required by the trainee psychiatrist. It emphasises an evidence-based approach to practice and gives full attention to ethical and legal issues
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Previous edition: 2012

Includes bibliographical references (pages 802-857) and index

Signs and symptoms of psychiatric disorders -- Classification -- Assessment -- Ethics and civil law -- Aetiology -- Evidence-based approaches to psychiatry -- Reactions to stressful experiences -- Anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorders -- Depression -- Bipolar disorder -- Schizophrenia -- Paranoid symptoms and syndromes -- Eating, sleep and sexual disorders

Dementia, delirium, and other neuropsychiatric disorders -- Personality and personality disorder -- Child psychiatry -- Intellectual disability -- Forensic psychiatry -- Psychiatry of the elderly -- The misuse of alcohol and drugs -- Suicide and deliberate self-harm -- Psychiatry and medicine -- Global psychiatry -- Psychological treatments -- Drugs and other physical treatments -- Psychiatric services

This volume provides an introduction to all the clinical topics required by the trainee psychiatrist. It emphasises an evidence-based approach to practice and gives full attention to ethical and legal issues

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