Core psychiatry

"This is a new edition of a highly successful, award winning textbook for trainee psychiatrists, covering in one volume all the subjects required for the new MRCPsych and similar exams. Written in a highly engaging manner, it will also prove invaluable to qualified psychiatrists who need to keep up-to-date with the latest developments, as well as clinical psychologists, general practitioners, psychiatric nurses and senior medical students. Concise yet comprehensive, "Core Psychiatry" reflects the latest developments in the curriculum plus all that is new and essential in clinical practice and the sciences that underpin it. It includes new information on the new Mental Capacity Act and Mental Health Act as well as enhanced sections on psychopharmacology, old age psychiatry, child and adolescent psychiatry, forensic psychiatry and rehabilitation. The book also makes reference to the latest NICE guidelines and includes new sections on sleep medicine and trauma psychiatry."--Publisher's website.

A brief history of psychiatry -- Clinical neuroanatomy -- Psychiatric genetics -- Human personality development -- Psychology -- Descriptive psychopathology -- Social psychiatry and sociology -- Cultural psychiatry -- Epidemiology -- Critical appraisal: Reviewing scientific evidence and reading academic papers -- Ethics and the law in psychiatry -- Challenges to psychiatry: Antipsychiatry, the user movement and stigma -- Psychiatry of learning disability -- Child and adolescent psychiatry -- Personality disorders -- Anxiety disorders -- Liaison psychiatry and psychosomatic medicine -- Eating disorders -- Schizophrenia and related disorders -- Unipolar depression -- Bipolar disorders -- Suicide and deliberate self-harm -- Unusual psychiatric syndromes -- Gender and sexuality in psychiatry -- Adult sequelae of childhood sexual abuse -- Sexual disorders -- Organic psychiatry and epilepsy -- Alcohol misuse -- Psychoactive drug misuse -- The organization and development of mental health services -- Forensic psychiatry -- Psychiatry of old age -- Clinical examination of psychiatric patients -- Diagnosis and classification in psychiatry -- Electroencephalography and neuroimaging -- Emerg…