Seminars in General Adult Psychiatry

This second edition of Seminars in General Adult Psychiatry provides a highly readable and comprehensive account of modern adult psychiatry.

George Stein (Edited by), Greg Wilkinson (Edited by)

9781904671442, Royal College of Psychiatrists

Hardback, published 1 April 2007

848 pages
34 x 21.8 x 4 cm, 2.68 kg

This second edition of Seminars in General Adult Psychiatry provides a highly readable and comprehensive account of modern adult psychiatry. Key features of the first edition that have been retained are the detailed clinical descriptions of psychiatric disorders, and historical sections to give the reader access to the classic studies of psychiatry as well as the current evidence. Additional topics covered here for the first time include liaison psychiatry, psychosexual medicine, clinical epidemiology, and international and cultural psychiatry. Clinical management is given due prominence, with extensive accounts of modern drug management, cognitive therapy, the main psychosocial approaches, and current guidelines such as those published by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence. An essential text for trainees studying for their MRCPsych, this book is also a one-stop reference work for established practitioners, providing comprehensive coverage of the whole of adult psychiatry.

Contents
List of tables, boxes and figures
List of contributors
Preface to the second edition
Preface to the first edition
1. Clinical features of depressive disorders Alan Lee
2. Mania, bipolar disorder and their treatment John Cookson
3. The causes of depression Kezia Lange and Anne Farmer
4. Drug treatment of depression Morris Bernadt
5. Electroconvulsive therapy and other physical therapies Arun Jha
6. Psychological treatment of depression Stirling Moorey
7. Suicide and non-fatal deliberate self-harm Christopher A. Vassilas, Gethin Morgan, John Owen and George Tadros
8. Schizophrenia: the clinical picture Peter F. Liddle
9. Schizoaffective, paranoid and other psychoses Clive Mellor
10. The aetiology of schizophrenia Pak Sham, Peter Woodruff, Michael Hunter and Julian Leff
11. The pharmacological management of schizophrenia Amlan Basu, Jerson Pereira and Katherine J. Aitchison
12. Schizophrenia: psychological and social approaches to treatment and care Frank Holloway and George Stein
13. Anxiety disorders Spilios Argyropoulos, Adam Campbell and George Stein
14. Phobias Lynne M. Drummond and Naomi A. Fineberg
15. Obsessive-compulsive disorder Lynne M. Drummond and Naomi A. Fineberg
16. Conversion and dissociative disorders, hypochondriasis and chronic pain Tom Brown and Harold Merskey
17. Psychiatry in the general hospital Hiroko Akagi and Allan House
18. Clinical features of the personality and impulse control disorders Patricia Casey
19. Treatment and outcome of the personality disorders Michael Stone
20. Organic psychiatric disorders Robin Jacobson, Irshaad Ebrahim and Michael Kopelman
21. Psychiatric aspects of neurological disorders Jonathan Bird and Danny Rogers
22. Toxic, metabolic and endocrine disorders Roger Howells
23. Sleep disorders Gregory Stores and Irshaad Ebrahim
24. Anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa Janet Treasure
25. Perinatal psychiatric disorders George Stein
26. Psychosexual medicine for psychiatrists Peter Trigwell and Gill Kirk
27. Clinical epidemiology Matthew Hotopf
28. Principles of nosology Anne Farmer and Muna Adwa
29. Mental health services Rosalind Ramsay and Frank Holloway
30. Psychiatry in general practice Greg Wilkinson
31. Cultural and international psychiatry Vikram Patel and George Stein
Index.

Subject Areas: Psychiatry [MMH]