Oxford handbook of psychiatry / David Semple, Roger Smyth.

Formerly CIP. Uk

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Thinking about psychiatry ; 2. Psychiatric assessment ; 3. Symptoms of psychiatric illness ; 4. Evidence-based psychiatry ; 5. Organic illness ; 6. Schizophrenia and related psychoses ; 7. Depressive illness ; 8. Bipolar illness ; 9. Anxiety and stress-related disorders ; 10. Eating and impulse-control disorders ; 11. Sleep disorders ; 12. Sexual disorders ; 13. Personality disorders ; 14. Old age psychiatry ; 15. Substance misuse ; 16. Child and adolescent psychiatry ; 17. Forensic psychiatry ; 18. Learning disability ; 19. Liaison psychiatry ; 20. Psychotherapy ; 21. Legal issues ; 22. Transcultural psychiatry ; 23. Therapeutic issues ; 24. Difficult and urgent situations ; 25. Useful resources ; 26. ICD-10/DSM-IV index

This handbook provides portable reassurance to doctors beginning psychiatry. There is helpful advice for the management of difficult and urgent situations, and the text is peppered with clinical observations on the practice of clinical psychiatry and guidance based upon the experience of the authors.