Crash Course: Psychiatry
Edited by- Trevor Turner, MD, FRCPsych, Consultant Psychiatrist and Clinical Director, The East London Foundation Trust, Homerton University and St Bartholomew's Hospitals, London, UK
- Daniel Horton-Szar, BSc(Hons), MBBS(Hons), MRCGP, Northgate Medical Practice, Canterbury, Kent, UK
- Daniel Horton-Szar, BSc(Hons), MBBS(Hons), MRCGP, Northgate Medical Practice, Canterbury, Kent, UK
- Julius Bourke, MBBS, MRCPsych, Specialist registrar (ST4), South London and The Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
- Matthew Castle, MBBS, MRCPsych, Consultant in General Adult, Liaison and Neuropsychiatry, North Essex Partnership Foundation Trust, Chelmsford, UK
Covering all aspects of the syllabus, Crash Course offers students a fast way to recap on what they need to know to get through the exams with ease. Styled in an easy-to-follow, readily accessible format, each book is prepared by senior medical students or junior doctors - under faculty supervision - to give them the correct level of information perfectly tailored to current curricula requirements. The series now includes improved pedagogic features and a fully revised self-assessment section, updated to meet current examination needs.
Audience
Undergraduate medical students revision aid
Paperback, 292 Pages
Published: July 2008
Imprint: Mosby
ISBN: 978-0-7234-3476-4
Contents
- PART I: THE PATIENT PRESENTS WITH: 1 The patient with low mood 2 The patient with elevated or irritable mood 3 The patient with suicide or self-harm intent 4 The psychotic patient 5 The patient with anxiety, fear or avoidance 6 The patient with a reaction to a stressful event or bereavement 7 The patient with obsessions and compulsions 8 The patient with medically unexplained symptoms 9 The patient with impairment of consciousness, memory or cognition 10 The patient with alcohol or substance use problems 11 The patient with personality and impulse-control problems 12 The patient with eating or weight problems
PART II: DISEASES AND DISORDERS 13 The mood (affective) disorders 14 The psychotic disorders: schizophrenia 15 The anxiety and somatoform disorders 16 Dementia and delirium 17 Alcohol and substance-related disorders 18 The personality disorders 19 Eating disorders 20 Disorders related to menstruation, pregnancy and the puerperium 21 The sleep disorders 22 The psychosexual disorders 23 Child and adolescent psychiatry 24 Old-age psychiatry 25 Forensic psychiatry
PART III: HISTORY, EXAMINATION AND COMMON INVESTIGATIONS 26 Psychiatric assessment and diagnosis 27 Pharmacological therapy and ECT 28 Psychological therapy 29 Mental health legislation 30 Mental health service provision
PART 1V: SELF-ASSESSMENT
