Full Description
This book is a comprehensive guide to psychiatry for undergraduate medical students.
Beginning with an introduction to the field, the next chapters discuss biological sciences, psychosocial sciences, and classification and evaluation.
The following sections cover the diagnosis and treatment of numerous psychiatric disorders, including schizophrenia, depression, bipolar and other mood disorders, OCD, sleep disorders, eating disorders, and many more.
All sectors of the population are covered, from children and adolescents, to geriatrics, and a complete chapter is dedicated to culture bound syndromes (a combination of psychiatric and somatic symptoms that are considered to be a recognisable disease only within a specific society or culture).
The book concludes with discussion on psychopharmacology and psychotherapies, legal and ethical issues, community and preventive psychiatry, and the history and future of the field.
Key points
Practical guide to psychiatry for undergraduate medical students
Covers diagnosis and treatment of numerous disorders
Complete chapter dedicated to culture bound syndromes
Includes discussion on legal and ethical issues, and preventive psychiatry
Contents
Nature of Mind - Real or Virtual
Basic Biological Sciences for Psychiatry
Basic Psychosocial Sciences for Psychiatry
Mental Health and Mental Disorders
Classification and Clinical Evaluation
Communications Skills for Effective Medicare
Organic Brain Syndromes
Substance Related Disorders
Schizophrenia and other Psychotic Disorders
Depressive Disorders
Bipolar and other Mood Disorders
Anxiety, Phobic and related Disorders
OCD Spectrum Disorders
Somatoform and Dissociative Disorders
Adjustment and Stress related Disorders
Sexual and Gender Identity Disorders
Sleep Disorders
Eating Disorders
Personality Disorders
Childhood and Adolescent Disorders
Disorders of Intellectual Development
Geriatric Mental Health
Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry
Suicide and Psychiatric Emergencies
Culture Bound Syndromes
Miscellaneous Syndromes of Clinical Interest
Legal and Ethical issues in Psychiatry
Psychopharmacology and Physical Methods
Psychotherapies
Community and Preventive Psychiatry
History of Psychiatry
Future of Psychiatry
