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COMPANION TO PSYCHIATRIC STUDIES
Companion to Psychiatric Studies
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Seventh Edition

By
Eve Johnstone, CBE, MD FRCP(Glasgow and Edinburgh) FRCPsych FMedSci FRSE, Professor of Psychiatry and Head of the Division of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, UK
Stephen M. Lawrie, MD(Hons) MPhil FRCPsych, Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroimaging, Division of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, Royal Edinburgh Hospital, Edinburgh, UK
David Cunningham Owens, MD(Hons), FRCP, FRCPsych, Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Division of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, Royal Edinburgh Hospital, Edinburgh, UK
Michael Sharpe, MA MD MB FRCP FRCP(Edin) FRCPsych, Professor of Psychological Medicine, Psychological Medicine Research, Royal Edinburgh Hospital, Edinburgh, UK

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Description
This comprehensive and authoritative resource thoroughly covers the basic science of psychiatry as well as its clinical practice. It succinctly presents all of the information needed for psychiatric certification. The 7th Edition features a new soft-cover binding and a more user-friendly format, as well as an increased focus on evidence-based medicine.

Audience
Trainee psychiatrists, particularly candidates for the Membership of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and similar exams

Contents
1. Psychiatry, its history and boundaries

2. Functional neuroanatomy

3. Neuropharmacology

4. Clinical psychopharmacology

5. Sociology

6. Psychology

7. Research design, measurement and statistics

8. Genetics

9. Psychiatric interviewing

10. Mental state examination

11. Diagnosis and classification

12. Organic disorders

13. Substance misuse

14. Schizophrenia and related syndromes

15. Mood disorder

16. Paranoid disorder and related syndromes

17. Neuroimaging

18. Neurotic disorders

19. Eating disorders

20. Sexual disorders

21. Normal and abnormal personality

22. Learning disability

23. Psychiatric disorders in childhood and adolescence

24. Old age psychiatry

25. Suicide and deliberate self harm

26. Psychiatry in relation to other areas of medicine

27. The relationship between crime and psychiatry

28. Psychological therapies

29. Evidence-based medicine and psychiatry


Bibliographic details
Paperback, 848 pages, publication date: JUL-2004
ISBN-13: 978-0-443-07263-5
ISBN-10: 0-443-07263-9
Imprint: CHURCHILL LIVINGSTONE


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