This thoroughly revised new edition of Psychiatry: An Oxford Core Text introduces the subject to the medical student in a concise, innovative and memorable way. Praised by lecturers and students alike for making even the most esoteric aspects of psychiatry accessible, this book will also appeal to social work and clinical psychology students, general practitioners and clinicians and health workers who see patients with psychiatric problems in the course of their practice. The book covers the most important psychiatric problems and includes a comprehensive coverage of signs, symptoms and diagnosis, assessment, aetiology, and psychiatry and the law. The book has been thoroughly revised and updated for this edition, and is in line with GMC guidelines on the teaching of psychiatry. The revised user-friendly, accessible text design is in response to student feedback. New material includes chapters which bring together somatoform and dissociative disorders, and disorders of eating and sleeping. Psychiatry: An Oxford Core Text introduces the major psychiatric problems focuses on the management of psychiatry problems in everyday clinical practice gives advice on the referral of patients to specialist psychiatrists covers the general principles of history-taking and assessment includes genuine case histories, key points and further reading
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Oxford University Press
ISBN-13
9780198528630
eBay Product ID (ePID)
96804845
Product Key Features
Author
Michael G. Gelder, Richard Mayou, John Geddes
Publication Name
Psychiatry: an Oxford Core Text
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Psychology
Publication Year
2005
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
344 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
247mm
Item Width
189mm
Item Weight
621g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
John Geddes, Michael G. Gelder, Richard Mayou
Series Title
Oxford Core Texts
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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