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Psychiatry

An Illustrated Colour Text

  • 3rd Edition - March 1, 2024
  • Latest edition
  • Authors: Lesley Stevens, Ian Rodin
  • Language: English

The third edition of this award-winning book offers an accessible and fun way of learning about the basic principles and practice of psychiatry.Psychiatry: An Illustrate… Read more

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The third edition of this award-winning book offers an accessible and fun way of learning about the basic principles and practice of psychiatry.

Psychiatry: An Illustrated Colour Text, Third Edition provides a highly visual experience, with each topic covered across two pages that you can review and digest easily. For each spread there are summary boxes, questions and answers and self-assessment tasks that will help with understanding and revision.

This wonderful book covers a wide range of subjects, from mental health services to different treatments, the full range of disorders, and psychiatry specialisations. It thus provides an ideal introduction to psychiatry for medical students or anyone learning about mental health for the first time.

Key features

  • Introductory level coverage of a complex topic, presented in an engaging way
  • Concise double page spreads for each topic – allows you to absorb information quickly
  • Stimulating and easy to read, with summaries and revision aids throughout
  • Full-colour line diagrams to demonstrate essential concepts
  • Practical advice on patient care
  • Modern pharmacological treatment of psychiatric disorders

Readership

Medical students

Table of contents

Introduction

1. Mental health services I

2. Mental health services II

3. Classification in psychiatry

4. History and aetiology

5. Mental state examination

6. Assessment of risk

7. Management plan and formulation

8. Psychiatry in primary care

9. Mental capacity

10. The Mental Health Act

Treatment in Psychiatry

11. Introduction to drug treatments

12. Prescribing psychotropic drugs

13. Antipsychotic drugs

14. Antidepressant drugs

15. Mood stabilisers, benzodiazepines and ECT

16. Psychological treatments

17. Family and social treatments

18. Recovery and social inclusion

Schizophrenia

19. Diagnosis and classification of schizophrenia

20. Epidemiology and aetiology of schizophrenia

21. Acute and chronic schizophrenia

22. Management of schizophrenia

Mood Disorders

23. Classification of mood disorders

24. Epidemiology and aetiology of mood disorders

25. Bipolar disorder – clinical presentation and management

26. Depressive disorder – clinical presentation

27. Depressive disorder – management

Anxiety and Related Disorders

28. Anxiety- and fear-related disorders – clinical presentation and aetiology

29. Anxiety- and fear-related disorders – management

30. Obsessive–compulsive disorders

31. Disorders associated with stress

32. Dissociative and bodily distress disorders

Personality Disorders

33. Personality disorders – introduction and classification

34. Personality disorders – management

Substance Misuse and Addictive Behaviours

35. Alcohol dependence I

36. Alcohol dependence II

37. Substance misuse

Psychiatric Specialties

38. Older people’s mental health services and functional illness

39. Dementia diagnosis

40. Management of dementia

41. Dementia in the general hospital

42. Neurodevelopmental disorders

43. Learning disabilities

44. Child and adolescent psychiatry I

45. Child psychiatry II

46. Eating disorders

47. Liaison psychiatry

48. Forensic psychiatry

49. Perinatal psychiatry

50. Sexual dysfunction

Product details

  • Edition: 3
  • Latest edition
  • Published: May 15, 2024
  • Language: English

About the authors

LS

Lesley Stevens

Affiliations and expertise
Director of Community, Mental Health and Learning Disabilities, Isle of Wight NHS Trust, Isle of Wight, UK

IR

Ian Rodin

Affiliations and expertise
Consultant Psychiatrist, Dorset Healthcare University NHS Foundation Trust, Dorset, UK