Textbook of Psychiatry

Textbook of Psychiatry is a comprehensive new text for medical students, trainees in psychiatry and other mental health professionals. Basic concepts are detailed in clear concise prose and further reinforced with:
case histories to provide practical clinical relevance
• explanatory diagrams and clinical photographs
• summary tables
• key point boxes for quick review and revision.
Core topics such as history taking and clinical examination, organic psychiatry, schizophrenia and delusional disorders are covered along with more specialized and less 'traditional' subjects such as transcultural psychiatry, the doctor-patient relationship and the life cycle. In this way the authors place psychiatry in the wider context of medicine and emphasize a more holistic approach to the individual.