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Psychiatry: An Evidence Based Text
Puri, Treasaden
2009
Published by Hodder Arnold
Succinct, user-friendly, thoroughly referenced and prepared by leading experts in the field, this book is the only single textbook you will need to succeed in the Royal College of Psychiatrists’ MRCPsych and other related higher examinations. Chapters follow the structure and syllabus of the examination ensuring that you receive the necessary essential information to pass and indeed succeed. Approachable and succinct text with colour illustrations and key summary points further help to clarify complex concepts and provide you with useful revision tools. The evidence-based approach used throughout is important to help you relate theory and research to clinical practice. The book is carefully structured and sequenced to building upon the basic sciences underpinning psychiatry, through to an in-depth description of pharmacological and psychological treatments used.
Contents: History of psychiatry. Introduction to Evidence-based medicine. History and philosophy science. Research methods and statistics. Epidemiology. How to practice evidence-based medicine. Psychological assessment and psychometrics. Human development. Introduction to Basic psychology. Awareness. Stress. Emotion. Information processing and attention. Learning Theory. Motivation. Perception. Memory. Language and thought. Personality. Social psychology. Social science and socio-cultural psychiatry. Cultural psychiatry. Neuroanatomy. Basic concepts in neurophysiology. Neurophysiology of integrated behaviour. Neurogenesis and cerebralplasticity. The neuroendocrine system. The neurophysiology of arousal and sleep. The electroencephalogram (EEG) and evoked potential studies (EPS). Neurochemistry. Neuropathology. Neuroimaging. Genetics. Classification and diagnostic systems: ICD-10, DSM-IV-TR and DSM-V. Cognitive assessment. Neurology for Psychiatrists. Organic disorders. Schizophrenia and paranoid psychoses. Mood disorders/affective psychoses. Neuroses. Hypochondriasis. Eating disorders. Personality disorders. Perinatal psychiatry: clinical features, epidemiology, aetiology. Psychosexual medicine. Gender identity disorders. Paraphilias and sex offendors. Psychiatric assessment of physical illness. Overlapping multi-system, multi-organ illnesses/syndromes. Mental health problems: Multiple chemical sensitivity. Mental health problems in ME, fibromyalgia. Pain and psychiatry. Sleep and sleep disorders. Suicide and deliberate self-harm. Emergency psychiatry. Care of the dying and bereaved. Clinical psychopharmacology. ECT rTMS & VNS. Psychotherapy: Introduction. Dynamic psychotherapy. Family therapy. Marital therapy. Group therapy. CBT. Other individual psychotherapies. Therapuetic communities. Effectiveness of psychotherapy. Addiction psychiatry. Child and adolescent psychiatry. Learning disability psychiatry. Old age psychiatry. Rehabilitation psychiatry. Management: Psychiatric services and management, and leading and organising service development and delivery. Advice to special medical services. Forensic psychiatry. Legal aspects of psychiatry. Ethics and Law Risk assessment.
Brand new book written specifically for the needs of psychiatrists preparing for MRCPsych exams. Covers the MRCPsych syllabus in the right amount of depth. Easy to read, good use of figures and tables, and well laid out.
