Psychiatry

Description

Following in the footsteps of the ground-breaking, prize-winning first edition, this third edition of Psychiatry is a concise yet comprehensive textbook of mental health for medical students, junior doctors, general practitioners, mental health nurses, social workers, clinical psychologists, anthropologists, and anyone else needing or wishing for a fresh, modern, and engaging account of mental disorders.Contents1. A brief history of psychiatry2. The psychiatric assessment3. Mental healthcare4. Schizophrenia and other psychoses5. Mood disturbances6. Suicide and deliberate self-harm7. Anxiety, stress-related, and somatoform disorders8. Personality disorders9. Organic disorders (delirium and dementias) 10. Intellectual disability11. Substance misuse (alcohol and drugs) 12. Eating, sleep, and sexual disorders13. Child and adolescent psychiatrySelf-assessmentReviewsNeel Burton has written a valuable textbook which provides a fresh approach to the teaching of psychiatry. --Prof John Cox, Past Secretary General, World Psychiatric Association, and Past President, Royal College of Psychiatrists[Neel Burton] has an interesting story to tell or point to make related to each subject covered, which makes for a very engaging and readable book ... I would not hesitate to recommend it.--British Journal of PsychiatryNeel Burton is to be congratulated on producing such an excellent, enjoyable, and enlivening book ... I would have no hesitation in recommending it.--International Journal of Psychiatry in Clinical PracticeDr Burton's book exemplifies good teaching... --Journal of the British Association of Psychopharmacology