Psychiatry

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Gelder, Michael G. (Author), Geddes, John (Author), Mayou, Richard (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press , c2005
Edition:3rd ed
Series:Oxford core texts
Oxford medical publications
Subjects:
Online Access:Table of contents only
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Signs, symptoms, and diagnosis
  • 2. Assessment
  • 3. Aetiology and the scientific basis of psychiatry
  • 4. Personality and its disorders
  • 5. Reactions to stressful experiences
  • 6. Anxiety and obsessional disorders
  • 7. Physical symptoms not explained by organic pathology
  • 8. Mood disorders
  • 9. Schizophrenia and related disorders
  • 10. Delirium, dementia, and other cognitive disorders
  • 11. Psychiatry and medicine
  • 12. Eating and sleeping disorders
  • 13. Suicide and deliberate self-harm
  • 14. Problems due to the use of alcohol and other psychoactive substances
  • 15. Problems of sexuality and gender
  • 16. Psychiatry of the elderly
  • 17. Drugs and other physical treatments
  • 18. Psychological treatment
  • 19. Mental health care for a community
  • 20. Child and adolescent psychiatry
  • 21. Learning disability
  • 22. Psychiatry and the law