Psychiatry.
Material type: TextSeries: Oxford core texts | Oxford medical publicationsPublication details: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2005.Edition: 3rd ed. / Michael Gelder, Richard Mayou, John GeddesDescription: 333 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:- 9780198528630 (pbk.) :
- 0198528639 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 616.89 22
- 616.89
- RC454 .G38 2005
- WM 140
Previous ed.: 1998.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Signs, symptoms, and diagnosis -- Assessment -- Aetiology and the scientific basis of psychiatry -- Personality and its disorders -- Reactions to stressful experiences -- Anxiety and obsessional disorders -- Physical symptoms not explained by organic pathology -- Mood disorders -- Schizophrenia and related disorders -- Delirium, dementia, and other cognitive disorders -- Psychiatry and medicine -- Eating and sleeping disorders -- Suicide and deliberate self-harm -- Problems due to the use of alcohol and other psychoactive substances -- Problems of sexuality and gender -- Psychiatry of the elderly -- Drugs and other physical treatments -- Psychological treatment -- Mental health care for a community -- Child and adolescent psychiatry -- Learning disability -- Psychiatry and the law.
Formerly 'The Concise Oxford Textbook of Psychiatry' this text emphasizes the assessment of psychiatric problems and focuses on their management in everyday clinical practice, giving advice on referral of patients to specialist psychiatrists.
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