Harrison / Geddes / Sharpe Lecture Notes

Psychiatry
10. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-118-29714-8
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Harrison, Paul

Geddes, John

Sharpe, Michael

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface, vi
1 Getting started 1
2 The core psychiatric assessment 6
3 Psychiatric assessment modules 16
4 Risk: harm, self-harm and suicide 37
5 Completing and communicating the assessment 43
6 Aetiology 51
7 Treatment 60
8 Psychiatric services and specialties 85
9 Mood disorders 92
10 Neurotic, stress-related and somatoform disorders 106
11 Eating, sleep and sexual disorders 118
12 Schizophrenia 128
13 Organic psychiatric disorders 142
14 Substance misuse 157
15 Personality disorders 168
16 Childhood disorders 176
17 Learning disability (mental retardation) 189
18 Psychiatry in other settings 196
Multiple choice questions, 202
Answers to multiple choice questions, 208
Appendix 1: ICD-10 classifi cation of psychiatric disorders,213
Appendix 2: Keeping up to date and evidence based, 214
Further reading, 215
Index, 219

Über Autor(innen)

Professor Paul Harrison, FRC Psych, Professor Paul Geddes, FRC Psych, and Dr Michael Sharpe, MRC Psych, are all experienced teachers in psychiatry and psychological medicine. Professors Harrison and Geddes are both based at the Warneford Hospital in Oxford where they teach the psychiatry attachment for medical students at Oxford University, and Dr Sharpe is Reader in Psychological Medicine at the University of Edinburgh.