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Crash Course Psychiatry Updated Print + E-Book Edition

  • 4th Edition - January 8, 2015
  • Latest edition
  • Authors: Katie FM Marwick, Steven Birrell
  • Editor: Daniel Horton-Szar
  • Language: English

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The (printed) ‘Updated Edition’ now comes with added value access to the complete, downloadable eBook version via Student Consult. Search, read and revise whilst on the move and use the interactive self-assessment to test your understanding. Crash Course - a more flexible, practical learning package than ever before.

Crash Course Psychiatry, 4th Edition – your effective every day study companion PLUS the perfect antidote for exam stress! Save time and be assured you have all the core information you need in one place to excel on your course and achieve exam success.

A winning formula now for over 15 years, each series volume has been fine tuned and fully updated, with an improved layout tailored to make your life easier. Especially written by junior doctors – those who understand what is essential for exam success – with all information thoroughly checked and quality assured by expert Faculty Advisers, the result is a series of books which exactly meets your needs and you know you can trust.

Psychiatry can present a unique and sometimes daunting set of challenges to those approaching the specialty for the first time. This substantially revised fourth edition provides an accessible yet comprehensive introduction to this fascinating field. Ideal both as a revision aid and for preparation for work in A&E, the wards, clinics or GP surgeries, this book is full of practical hints and tips which will inspire confidence and to guide you towards systematic assessments, rational diagnoses and evidence based management plans.

Key features

  • More than 220 line artworks, tables and boxes present clinical, diagnostic and practical information in an easy-to-follow manner
  • Friendly and accessible approach to the subject makes learning especially easy
  • Written by junior doctors for students - authors who understand exam pressures
  • Contains ‘Hints and Tips’ boxes, and other useful aide-mémoires
  • Succinct coverage of the subject enables ‘sharp focus’ and efficient use of time during exam preparation
  • Contains a fully updated self-assessment section - ideal for honing exam skills and self-testing

Readership

Undergraduate medical students – revision aid

Table of contents

Part I: The Patient Presents With

1. The patient with low mood

2. The patient with elevated or irritable mood

3. The patient with suicide or self-harm intent

4. The psychotic patient

5. The patient with anxiety, fear or avoidance

6. The patient with a reaction to a stressful event or bereavement

7. The patient with obsessions and compulsions

8. The patient with medically unexplained symptoms

9. The patient with impairment of consciousness, memory or cognition

10. The patient with alcohol or substance use problems

11. The patient with personality and impulse-control problems

12. The patient with eating or weight problems

Part II: Diseases and Disorders

13. The mood (affective) disorders

14. The psychotic disorders: schizophrenia

15. The anxiety and somatoform disorders

16. Dementia and delirium

17. Alcohol and substance-related disorders

18. The personality disorders

19. Eating disorders

20. Disorders related to menstruation, pregnancy and the puerperium

21. The sleep disorders

22. The psychosexual disorders

23. Child and adolescent psychiatry

24. Old-age psychiatry

25. Forensic psychiatry

Part III: History, Examination and Common Investigations

26. Psychiatric assessment and diagnosis

27. Pharmacological therapy and ECT

28. Psychological therapy

29. Mental health legislation

30. Mental health service provision

Part IV: Self-Assessment

Product details

  • Edition: 4
  • Latest edition
  • Published: February 20, 2015
  • Language: English

About the editor

DH

Daniel Horton-Szar

Affiliations and expertise
Northgate Medical Practice, Canterbury, Kent, UK

About the authors

KM

Katie FM Marwick

Affiliations and expertise
Honorary Specialty Registrar in General Adult Psychiatry, NHS Lothian; Clinical Lecturer in Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, UK

SB

Steven Birrell

Affiliations and expertise
Consultant Psychiatrist, Queen Margaret Hospital, Dunfermline, Fife, UK