Seminars in General Adult Psychiatry (College Seminars Series) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1904671446 ISBN 13: 9781904671442

Publisher: RCPsych Publications, 2007

Synopsis

Part of the 'College Seminars Series' of textbooks, this book gives a comprehensive overview of the field of adult psychiatry. It places emphasis on detailed clinical descriptions of the common psychiatric disorders and their place within the ICD-10 and DSM-IV schemes.

About this title

Book Description:

This second edition of Seminars in General Adult Psychiatry provides a highly readable and comprehensive account of modern adult psychiatry. Clinical management is given due prominence, with extensive accounts of modern drug management, cognitive therapy, the main psychosocial approaches, and current guidelines such as those published by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence.

Synopsis:

Part of the successful "College Seminars Series" of textbooks, this book gives a comprehensive overview of the field and is fully expanded and updated since the first edition. It places emphasis on detailed clinical descriptions of the common psychiatric disorders and their place within the ICD-10 and DSM-IV schemes. New chapters include: conversion and dissociative disorders; psychosexual medicine; clinical epidemiology; principles of nosology; and, cultural and international psychiatry.

About this edition

• Publisher: RCPsych Publications
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1904671446
• ISBN 13: 9781904671442
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 848
• Editor: Stein George, Wilkinson Greg