Concise Oxford Textbook of Psychiatry

by Gelder, Michael; Gath, Dennis; Mayou, Richard

• ISBN13: 9780192620323
• ISBN10: 0192620320
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1994-05-12
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This concise, practical guidebook by the authors of the widely successful Oxford Textbook of Psychiatry (now in its second edition) is for clinical medical students, general practitioners, and other professionals who see patients with psychiatric problems. It focuses on management of psychiatric problems in everyday clinical practice, and advises general clinicians when to manage problems themselves and when to refer to a psychiatrist.

Table of Contents

Signs and symptoms	p. 1
Interviewing and clinical evaluation	p. 19
Classification	p. 45
Aetiology	p. 53
Personality and its disorders	p. 71
Reactions to stressful experiences	p. 85
Neurosis	p. 101
Affective disorders	p. 133
Schizophrenia and schizophrenia-like disorders	p. 163
Paranoid symptoms and paranoid syndromes	p. 185
Organic psychiatric disorders	p. 195
Psychiatry and medicine	p. 215
Suicide and deliberate self-harm	p. 247
The abuse of alcohol and drugs	p. 263
Problems of sexuality and gender	p. 293
Psychiatry of the elderly	p. 309
Drugs and other physical treatments	p. 323
Psychological treatment	p. 353
Psychiatric care in the community	p. 371
Child and adolescent psychiatry	p. 381
Mental retardation	p. 413
Psychiatry and the law	p. 431
Appendix: The law in England and Wales	p. 445
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