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The fourth edition presents, as before, a comprehensive account of current practice in psychiatry. It covers classification, causes and prevention of psychiatric disorder and gives practical information on history-taking, mental state examination and investigation. Each of the major syndromes is discussed, as well as the psychiatry of special age groups and populations. Furthermore, this edition includes advances in psychopharmacology (SSRIs, RIMAs and anti-psychotics) and discusses the effects of NHS reforms, e.g. Community Care.
Summarizing current knowledge on the subject, this text focuses on fact rather than theory. Up-dated, this edition covers such topics as genetic research, child sexual abuse, post-traumatic stress order and the psychiatry of AIDS.
This new edition of Jennifer Hughes' successful book presents as before a comprehensive account of current practice in psychiatry. It covers classification, causes and prevention of psychiatric disorders and gives practical information on history- taking, mental state examination and investigation. Each of the major syndromes is discussed, as well as the psychiatry of special age groups and populations.
Hughes' Outline of Psychiatry, Fifth Edition presents a comprehensive account of current practice in psychiatry, summarising up-to-date knowledge of the subject in a concise way. Part I touches on general classification, causes and prevention of mental disorders. It also outlines the basics of the psychiatric interview, examination and investigation. Part II gives an overview of the most common clinical syndromes, covering frequency, epidemiology, causes, clinical features, clinical types, diagnostic criteria, differential diagnosis and treatment for each disorder. Part III focuses on all different treatment options, from Psychological Treatment to Psychosurgery. Fully up-to-date in respect to drugs and treatments, classification systems, and recent legal developments Concentrates on practical clinical techniques rather than psychiatric theory Includes plenty of case studies Format ideal for quick reference or revision This new edition of a well-established and well-received book is an invaluable textbook for medical and psychology students, trainees and psychologists. It is also a helpful resource for mental health nurses, professionals working in health service management and occupational therapy, general practitioners, and other non-specialists who need grounding in all practical aspects of mental health care. From the reviews of the previous edition: “The chapters are well structured, maintaining a balance between remaining comprehensive and interesting. The addition of illustrative case histories is welcome... a highly recommended text” JOURNAL OF SOCIAL PSYCHIATRY “...very easy to read and the general layout is excellent... useful as a quick summary...” THE BRITISH JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY
Accurate, reliable, objective, and comprehensive, Kaplan & Sadock’s Synopsis of Psychiatry has long been the leading clinical psychiatric resource for clinicians, residents, students, and other health care professionals both in the US and worldwide. Now led by a new editorial team of Drs. Robert Boland and Marcia L. Verduin, it continues to offer a trusted overview of the entire field of psychiatry while bringing you up to date with current information on key topics and developments in this complex specialty. The twelfth edition has been completely reorganized to make it more useful and easier to navigate in today’s busy clinical settings.
For most of us the words madness and psychosis conjure up fear and images of violence. Using short stories, the authors consider complex philosphical issues from a fresh perspective. The current debates about mental health policy and practice are placed into their historical and cultural contexts.
The central ideas making up Harry Stack Sullivan’s theory of personality find their first expression in this book. Here he set forth his view of psychiatry as the study of interpersonal relations. “Psychiatry,” he wrote, “is the study of processes that involve or go on between people. The field of psychiatry is the field of interpersonal relations under any and all circumstances in which these relations exist. A personality can never be isolated from the complex of interpersonal relations in which the person lives and has his being.” Through his development of the theory of interpersonal relations, Harry Stack Sullivan not only made a vital contribution on the treatment of mental disorder—in particular, schizophrenia—but he opened an entirely new approach to the study of human personality. “The core of Sullivan’s theory,” says Lloyd Frankenberg in the New York Times, “is that people, interacting, shape people....He has evolved an analytic method, for all its subtlety and elaboration, wonderfully coherent, organic and usable.” The influence of Harry Stack Sullivan has had a powerful impact. He has been called one of the half dozen truly great figures in American social psychology, one who has opened new horizons of research and, in the view of many analysist, made the most original contribution to psychiatry since Freud.