Key Topics in Psychiatry

Key Topics in Psychiatry is an invaluable reference and examination revision aid, containing essential information on major topics in modern psychiatry. The topics include information on diagnosis and management, as well as the underlying pathologies of both genetically determined and acquired disorders.

Topics covered: Addiction, Affective disorders, Alzheimer's disease, Antipsychotic medication, Anxiety and panic, Autism, Behavioural disturbance in childhood, Bereavement, Brain area dysfunction, Child sexual abuse, Chronic fatigue, Chronic pain, Cognitive function, Culture and psychiatry, Dangerousness assessment, Defence mechanisms, Delinquency, Delusional disorders, Dementia, Depression, Development disorders, Difficult to help patients, Drug development, Eating disorders, ECT, EEG, Epilepsy, Ethics, Gender identity, Head injury, HIV, Hyperventilation, Illness behaviour, Intoxicated patients, Learning, Legal process, Medically unexplained symptoms, Memory, Mental handicap, Neurosis divisible, Personality, Premenstrual syndrome, Psychiatric disorders, Psychological treatment, Rating scales, Recurrent brief psychiatric syndromes, Schizoaffective disorders, Schizophrenia, Self mutilation, Sexual disorders, Sleep disorders, Social aspects of psychiatry, Statistics, Stress reactions, Stuporose patients, Suicide, Tourettes, Violent patients