Psychiatry Clinical Cases Uncovered

Rehearse for life in clinical practice with this easy-to-use and unique series, which combines cases drawn from real-life experiences with a refreshing approach to presentations as you would see them in day-to-day situations.Get the most from clinical practice, with Clinical Cases UncoveredPsychiatry is one of the most interesting and challenging areas of study in medicine and Clinical Cases Uncovered is your guide through.With presentations ranging from psychosis to memory loss and from insomnia to self-harm, you tackle each problem as it arises in everyday settings. Tips and key features are highlighted throughout so you can refer back to each case for exam revision and well into your career.For further information, visit www.clinicalcasesuncovered.com

Peter Byrne, Consultant Liaison Psychiatrist at Newham University Hospital, Glenn Road, London.

Nicola Byrne,Consultant Psychiatrist, the Maudsley Hospital, London.

Contents
Introduction	p. 00
How to use this book	p. 00
Basics	p. 00
Approaches to the patient	p. 00
Mental health treatments	p. 00
Cases	p. 00
A 20-year-old student collapses in the supermarket	p. 00
A 47-year-old woman who lives in fear that God will punish her	p. 00
An 18-year-old college drop-out gets an eviction order from his parents	p. 00
An 18-year-old trainee chef who cannot go to work	p. 00
Sudden deterioration of a 78-year-old woman in a nursing home	p. 00
A 72-year-old woman with antisocial behaviour	p. 00
A 64-year-old retired teacher's depression is getting worse	p. 00
A 17-year-old man has been cutting his arms	p. 00
A 9-year-old disruptive child faces expulsion from school	p. 00
A 48-year-old security guard with new symptoms every day	p. 00
A 28-year-old man has been arrested at the airport	p. 00
A 24-year-old new mother in distress	p. 00
A 15-year-old prefect with pneumonia is behaving secretly	p. 00
Insomnia in a 26-year-old successful City man	p. 00
A 15-year-old child assaults his foster mother	p. 00
A 42-year-old woman insists she is pregnant	p. 00
The wife of a 66-year-old GP with Parkinson's disease is worried about him	p. 00
Complete loss of memory in a fit middle-aged man	p. 00
A GP colleague is at his wit's end	p. 00
The critical medical student	p. 00
A 24-year-old legal secretary with depressed mood and suicidal thoughts	p. 00
A 41-year-old woman with epilepsy develops a different pattern of fits	p. 00
Self-assessment	p. 00
MCQs	p. 00
EMQs	p. 00
SAQs	p. 00
Answers	p. 00
Index of cases by diagnosis	p. 00
Index	p. 00
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Psychiatry Clinical Cases Uncovered

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