| Reviews |
| - 'If I was considering a career in psychiatry beyond medical school, this would definitely be the book that I'd go for...' - medicworld.co.uk
- '... the Oxford Handbook of Psychiatry provides medical students and beginning psychiatrists with a solid overview of the core tenets of adult psychiatry. ... This book is a solid contender in a sea of similar handbooks, and readers will find that its periodic British nomenclature does not compromise its applicability to American psychiatry. ... the Oxford Handbook of Psychiatry offers an
impressive breadth of evidence-based material and will undoubtedly be a resource found in the pockets of many practitioners.' - PsycCRITIQUES
- 'If you could afford only one psychiatry book, this is it! The wealth of useful/practical information that this little book contains (and that could fit into your white coat pocket) is remarkable.' - Doody's Journal
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| Description | | - In-depth coverage of general psychiatry and all the subspecialties
- Information on psychopathology, evidence-based practice, legislation, eponyms and much more
- Contains practical advice on assessment and management in real-life situations
- Includes a full symptom dictionary to aid diagnosis, and full guide to prescribing
- Includes an additional index of ICD-10 and DSM-VI codes
| The Oxford Handbook of Psychiatry
is a new book directed at medical students, doctors coming to psychiatry for the first time, psychiatric trainees, and other professionals who may have to deal with patients with psychiatric problems. It is written by a group of experienced psychiatrists and is designed to provide easy access to the information required by psychiatry trainees on the wards
or on-call. It closely follows the familiar format of the Oxford Handbooks
series, and provides coverage that is comprehensive, evidence based and practical. The content of the handbook is written in the concise, note-based style characteristic of the series, with topics confined to single pages.
The book is divided into four sections: fundamentals of psychiatric practice; general adult
psychiatry; psychiatric subspecialties; and useful reference material. Within each chapter, topics are covered in a clear, logical, manner. For the clinical disorders there is detailed information on the aetiology, epidemiology, clinical features, common differential diagnoses, assessment / investigation, management, and prognosis. There is in-depth coverage of psychiatric assessment,
psychopathology, evidence-based practice, mental health legislation in the UK, therapeutic issues, and transcultural psychiatry. The book is internally cross-referenced and has both key references to important papers and to further information resources. As well as being indexed alphabetically, it is also indexed by ICD-10 / DSM-IV codes, and there is a quick index for acute presentations.
This handbook is practical and directive in style, designed to provide portable reassurance to doctors beginning psychiatry. There is helpful advice for the management of difficult and urgent situations, and the text is peppered with clinical observations on the practice of clinical psychiatry and guidance based upon the experience of the authors.
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Readership: Senior House Officers starting psychiatric training, clinical medical students, psychiatric trainees approaching professional exams (e.g. MRCPsych in the UK)
| Contents |
1.
Thinking about psychiatry
2.
Psychiatric assessment
3.
Symptoms of psychiatric illness
4.
Examining the evidence
5.
Organic illness
6.
Schizophrenia and related psychoses
7.
Depressive illness
8.
Bipolar illness
9.
Anxiety and stress-related disorders
10.
Disorders of behaviour
11.
Personality disorders, and disorders of sexual preference
12.
Old-age psychiatry
13.
Substance misuse
14.
Child and adolescent psychiatry
15.
Forensic psychiatry
16.
Learning disability
17.
Liaison psychiatry
18.
Psychotherapy
19.
Legal and ethical issues
20.
Transcultural psychiatry
21.
Therapeutic issues
22.
Eponyms in psychiatry
23.
Difficult and urgent situations
24.
Useful addresses
25.
ICD-10/DSM-IV index
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| Authors, editors,
and contributors |
David Semple, Consultant Psychiatrist, Hairmyres Hospital, East Kilbride and Honorary Fellow, Division of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh,
Roger Smyth, Consultant Psychiatrist, St John's Hospital at Howden, West Lothian,
Jonathan Burns, Community Psychiatrist, Nelson Mandela School of Medicine, University of KwaZulu-Natal,
Rajan Darjee, Lecturer in Psychiatry, Division of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, and
Andrew McIntosh, Research Fellow, Division of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh
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