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Psychiatry/ Michael Gelder, Richard Mayou, John Geddes.

By: Gelder, Michael G.
Contributor(s): Mayou, Richard | Geddes, John.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Oxford medical publications; Oxford core texts.Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, c2005Edition: 3rd ed.Description: 333 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.ISBN: 9780198528630.Subject(s): Psychiatry | Mental Disorders | Health and Wellbeing | Clinical & internal medicine | Clinical psychology | Social work | General practice | Psychiatric nursing | Mental health servicesDDC classification: 616.89 GEL
Contents:
Signs, symptoms, and diagnosis -- Assessment -- Aetiology and the scientific basis of psychiatry -- Personality and its disorders -- Reactions to stressful experiences -- Anxiety and obsessional disorders -- Physical symptoms not explained by organic pathology -- Mood disorders -- Schizophrenia and related disorders -- Delirium, dementia, and other cognitive disorders -- Psychiatry and medicine -- Eating and sleeping disorders -- Suicide and deliberate self-harm -- Problems due to the use of alcohol and other psychoactive substances -- Problems of sexuality and gender -- Psychiatry of the elderly -- Drugs and other physical treatments -- Psychological treatment -- Mental health care for a community -- Child and adolescent psychiatry -- Learning disability -- Psychiatry and the law.
Summary: Formerly 'The Concise Oxford Textbook of Psychiatry' this text emphasizes the assessment of psychiatric problems and focuses on their management in everyday clinical practice, giving advice on referral of patients to specialist psychiatrists.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Psychiatry: An Oxford Core Text introduces the subject to the medical student in a concise, innovative and memorable way. Praised by lecturers and students alike for making even the most esoteric aspects of psychiatry accessible, this book will also appeal to social work and clinical psychology students, general practitioners and clinicians and health workers who see patients with psychiatric problems in the course of their practice. The book covers the most important psychiatric problems and includes a comprehensive coverage of signs, symptoms and diagnosis, assessment, aetiology, and psychiatry and the law. Psychiatry: An Oxford Core Text * introduces the major psychiatric problems * focuses on the management of psychiatry problems in everyday clinical practice * gives advice on the referral of patients to specialist psychiatrists * covers the general principles of history-taking and assessment * includes genuine case histories, key points and further reading

Previous ed.: 1998.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Signs, symptoms, and diagnosis -- Assessment -- Aetiology and the scientific basis of psychiatry -- Personality and its disorders -- Reactions to stressful experiences -- Anxiety and obsessional disorders -- Physical symptoms not explained by organic pathology -- Mood disorders -- Schizophrenia and related disorders -- Delirium, dementia, and other cognitive disorders -- Psychiatry and medicine -- Eating and sleeping disorders -- Suicide and deliberate self-harm -- Problems due to the use of alcohol and other psychoactive substances -- Problems of sexuality and gender -- Psychiatry of the elderly -- Drugs and other physical treatments -- Psychological treatment -- Mental health care for a community -- Child and adolescent psychiatry -- Learning disability -- Psychiatry and the law.

Formerly 'The Concise Oxford Textbook of Psychiatry' this text emphasizes the assessment of psychiatric problems and focuses on their management in everyday clinical practice, giving advice on referral of patients to specialist psychiatrists.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • 1 Signs, symptoms and diagnosis
  • 2 Assessment
  • 3 Aetiology
  • 4 Personality and its disorders
  • 5 Reactions to stressful experiences
  • 6 Anxiety and obsessional disorders
  • 7 Somatoform and dissociative disorders
  • 8 Mood disorders
  • 9 Schizophrenia and related disorders
  • 10 Delirium, dementia and other cognitive disorders
  • 11 Psychiatry and medicine
  • 12 Disorders of eating and sleeping
  • 13 Suicide and deliberate self harm
  • 14 Problems due to the use of alcohol and other psychoactive substances
  • 15 Problems of sexuality and gender
  • 16 Psychiatry of the elderly
  • 17 Drugs and other physical treatments
  • 18 Psychological treatment
  • 19 Mental health care for a community
  • 20 Child and adolescent psychiatry
  • 21 Learning disability
  • 22 Psychiatry and the law

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Michael Gelder is Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, UK. Richard Mayou is a Professor of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, UK. John Geddes is a Professor of Epidemiological Psychiatry and Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist, University of Oxford.