Companion to Psychiatric Studies

This classic book remains a standard textbook for postgraduate students approaching examinations in psychiatry. While ideal for candidates sitting membership examinations of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, its accurate coverage of current psychiatric thought makes it ideal reading for all psychiatric health professionals. Featuring an all-new chapter on legal and ethical aspects of psychiatry as well as all of the new advances and changes in psychiatric knowledge and practice.

Psychiatry, its history and boundaries	p. 1
Functional neuroanatomy	p. 11
Neuropharmacology	p. 39
Clinical psychopharmacology	p. 81
Research design measurement and statistics	p. 149
Epidemiology in psychiatric research	p. 197
Genetics	p. 219
Psychiatric interviewing	p. 233
Mental state examination	p. 249
Diagnosis and classification	p. 265
Organic disorders	p. 281
Substance misuse	p. 329
Schizophrenia and related syndromes	p. 369
Mood disorder	p. 399
Paranoid disorder and related syndromes	p. 431
Neuroimaging	p. 447
Neurotic disorders	p. 465
Eating disorders	p. 509
Sexual disorders	p. 529
Psychiatric disorders specific to women	p. 551
Normal and abnormal personality	p. 565
Learning disability	p. 597
Psychiatric disorders in childhood	p. 649
Psychiatric disorders of adolescence	p. 683
Old age psychiatry	p. 713
Suicide and deliberate self-harm	p. 751
Psychiatry in relation to other areas of medicine	p. 785
The relationship between crime and psychiatry	p. 807
Legal and ethical aspects of psychiatry	p. 833
Psychological therapies	p. 847
Evidence-based medicine and psychiatry	p. 865
Current controversies in psychiatry	p. 879
Mental health legislation and definitions	p. 887
Electroconvulsive therapy	p. 893
Index	p. 899
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Companion to Psychiatric Studies

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