Burton Neel (ed.) Psychiatry

2nd edition. — Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. — 242 p. — ISBN: 978-1405190961Following in the footsteps of the groundbreaking first edition, this second edition of Psychiatry is a comprehensive textbook of mental health that brings its subject alive with numerous case studies, images and photographs, and short references from the arts, history, and philosophy. These not only facilitate learning and memorisation, but also highlight the subjective experience of mental illness, and stimulate thought into the nature of the human experience.Based on extensive feedback from students and lecturers, this second edition places greater emphasis on psychological treatments, clinical skills, and exam success, and integrates more than 350 self-assessment questions.Psychiatry is the perfect textbook for medical students, junior doctors, GPs, and all healthcare professionals needing a thorough account of mental disorders.A brief history of psychiatry
Patient assessment
The delivery of mental health care
Schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders
Affective (mood) disorders
Suicide and deliberate self-harm
Neurotic, stress-related, and somatoform disorders (anxiety disorders)
Personality disorders
Organic psychiatric disorders (delirium and dementias)
Mental retardation (learning disabilities)
Substance misuse
Eating, sleep, and sexual disorders
Child and adolescent psychiatry