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Second Edition
By
Padraig Wright, LRCP&SI, LM, MBBCh, BAO(NUI), MRCPsych, MD, Vice President, Psychiatry, Glaxo Smith Kline and Honorary Lecturer in Psychological Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK
Julian Stern, BA, MBChB, FRCPsych, Consultant Psychiatrist in Psychotherapy, St Mark's Hospital, Harrow, London, UK
Michael Phelan, BSc, MBBS, MRCPsych, Consultant Psychiatrist, Department of Psychiatry, Charing Cross Hospital, London, UK
Included in series
MRCPsy Study Guides,
Description
Highly Commended (Mental Health category), BMA Awards 2005
This one concise volume covers all the core knowledge required
for the MRCPsych and similar exams - highly suitable for revision. Content on both basic science and clinical psychiatry as well as
boxed summary lists and key points make last minute learning easy. Material is based on the highly successful MRCPsych preparation course
run by two of the authors in London.
Audience
Trainee psychiatrists, especially those sitting exams such as the MRCPsych.
Contents
Part 1 The Foundations of Psychiatry - A brief history of psychiatry. Clinical neuroanatomy. Psychiatric genetics. Human personality development.
Psychology. Descriptive psychopathology. Social psychiatry and sociology. Cultural psychiatry. Epidemiology. Critical appraisal: reading
academic papers and reviewing scientific evidence. Challenges to psychiatry: antipsychiatry, the user movement and stigma. Part 2: Clinical
Psychiatry - Psychiatry of learning. Child and adolescent learning. Personality disorders. Anxiety disorders. Psychiatry and general
medicine. Eating disorders. Schizophrenia and related disorders. Unipolar depression. Bipolar disorder. Suicide and deliberate self harm.
Unusual psychiatric syndromes. Psychiatry and women. Adult sequelae of childhood sexual abuse. Sexual disorders. Organic psychiatry.
Drugs and alcohol. Psychoactive drugs other than alcohol. Community psychiatry. Forensic psychiatry. Psychiatry of old age. Part 3: Diagnosis,
investigation and treatment - Clinical assessment of psychiatric patients. Classification and diagnosis. Neuroimaging and electroencephalography.
Risk assessment and emergency psychiatry. Psychotherapy - individual, family and group. Behavioural and cognitive psychotherapies. ECT
and psychosurgies. Psychopharmacology. The law and psychiatry.
| Bibliographic details |
Paperback, 672 pages, publication date: NOV-2004
ISBN-13: 978-0-7020-2718-5
ISBN-10: 0-7020-2718-9
Imprint: SAUNDERS
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