Psychiatry

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Using excerpts and images from the worlds of art, film and literature to illustrate the core psychiatric content needed by medical students and junior doctors, this book places psychiatry in an historical context and highlights the ethical and philosophical issues that are inherent to the practice of psychiatry.

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Title Statements

Full title :Psychiatry / Neel Burton MBBS (Lond.), MRCPsych, MA (Phil.).

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2016
Edition:Third edition

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Acheron Press
Place of Publication:Oxford
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2016

Notes

Includes index.

Previous edition: Chichester : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.

The Physical Object

Description:vii, 196 pages : : illustrations (some colour) ; : 25 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780992912741, 0992912741
oclc:ocn944386958
LC Classification:RC454
Dewey Decimal:616.89

Part 1 -- 1. A brief history of psychiatry -- 2. The psychiatric assessment -- 3. Mental healthcare -- Part 2 -- 4. Schizophrenia and other psychoses -- 5. Mood disturbances -- 6. Suicide and deliberate self-harm -- 7. Anxiety, stress-related, and somatoform disorders -- 8. Personality disorders -- 9. Organic disorders (delirium and dementias) -- 10. Intellectual disability -- 11. Substance misuse (alcohol and drugs) -- 12. Eating, sleep, and sexual disorders -- 13. Child and adolescent psychiatry.

Subjects

Health and Fitness Health and Wellbeing Maladies mentales mental disorders Mental Health Services Mental illness Psychiatry Psychiatry -- methods Psychiatry -- Textbooks Services de santé mentale Textbooks