The Rapids are a series of two-colour reference and revision pocket books that cover key facts in a simple and memorable way. Each book contains the common conditions that students and junior doctors encounter on the wards, in clinics, and in their exams. The conditions are arra…
This pocket guide is a must for all clinical medical students and junior doctors and provides an excellent revision tool in the run-up to exams. It is also perfect for when working on the psychiatric attachment, as it covers many of the conditions encountered on the wards, in cl…
Aspects of mental illness are still a mystery. Answers to the most important questions in psychiatry may require decades of further research, so it is important to critique contemporary practice - especially as fads in psychiatry have occurred not only on the fringe, but in the …
This book examines the fads and fallacies that have and continue to plague psychiatry, in both diagnosis and in treatment. It aims to highlight the limitations of current psychiatry.
"In the past decade, Artificial Intelligence (AI) as a general-purpose tool has become a disruptive force globally. By leveraging the power of artificial neural networks, deep learning frameworks can now translate text from hundreds of languages, enable real-time navigation for …
This book traces the historical postcolonial journey of four generations of Jamaican psychiatrists challenging the European colonial civilizing mission of psychiatric care. It details the process of deinstitutionizing patients with chronic mental illness using psychohistoriograp…
"Without mental health there can be no true physical health" -- Brock Chisholm, first Director-General, World Health Organization. The first edition of Introduction to Psychiatry is a textbook designed to reach medical students, house staff, primary care clinicians and early car…
"Without mental health there can be no true physical health" -- Brock Chisholm, first Director-General, World Health Organization. The first edition of Introduction to Psychiatry is a textbook designed to reach medical students, house staff, primary care clinicians and early car…
"Without mental health there can be no true physical health"--Brock Chisholm, first Director-General, World Health Organization. The first edition of Introduction to Psychiatry is a textbook designed to reach medical students, house staff, primary care clinicians and early caree…
"By drawing broadly on international thinking and experience, this book offers a critical exploration of Mad Studies and advances its theory and practice. Comprised of 34 chapters written by international leading experts, activists and academics, this handbook introduces and adv…
The vast majority of mental health clinicians and researchers rely on diagnostic systems based on operational criteria. However, in their everyday practice, many clinicians also pay attention to their own feelings or intuitions about the patient. For an even greater number of cl…
