Psychiatry: An Oxford Core Text - Softcover

Gelder, Michael; Mayou, Richard; Geddes, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0198528639 ISBN 13: 9780198528630

Publisher: OUP Oxford, 2005

Synopsis

Psychiatry: An Oxford Core Text introduces the subject to the medical student in a concise, innovative and memorable way. Praised by lecturers and students alike for making even the most esoteric aspects of psychiatry accessible, this book will also appeal to social work and clinical psychology students, general practitioners and clinicians and health workers who see patients with psychiatric problems in the course of their practice. The book covers the most important psychiatric problems and includes a comprehensive coverage of signs, symptoms and diagnosis, assessment, aetiology, and psychiatry and the law. Psychiatry: An Oxford Core Text * introduces the major psychiatric problems * focuses on the management of psychiatry problems in everyday clinical practice * gives advice on the referral of patients to specialist psychiatrists * covers the general principles of history-taking and assessment * includes genuine case histories, key points and further reading

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Product Description

Covers psychiatric problems and includes a comprehensive coverage of signs, symptoms and diagnosis, assessment, aetiology, and psychiatry and the law. This book is intended for social work and clinical psychology students, general practitioners and clinicians and health workers who see patients with psychiatric problems in their practice.

Review

"This is an excellent revised edition of this introductory textbook of psychiatry. Trainees in psychiatry would benefit from reading this book." --Doody's "This is an excellent revised edition of this introductory textbook of psychiatry. Trainees in psychiatry would benefit from reading this book." --Doody's "This is an excellent revised edition of this introductory textbook of psychiatry. Trainees in psychiatry would benefit from reading this book." --Doody's "This is an excellent revised edition of this introductory textbook of psychiatry. Trainees in psychiatry would benefit from reading this book." --Doody's

Edition details

• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0198528639
• ISBN 13: 9780198528630
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 344