* 2011 Winner – BMA Book Awards – Student Textbook – Psychiatry *

This innovative resource provides a highly visual introduction to the basic principles and practice of psychiatry. Each topic is covered in a single two-page unit to make reference and study uncommonly easy and effective. Abundant full-colour line diagrams, clinical photographs, and MRI images demonstrate essential concepts at a glance.

Key Features

• Concise, double page spread permits rapid review of essential information
• Wide range of colour clinical photographs, MRI scans and artwork schematics
• Provides practical advice regarding patient care
• Covers modern pharmacological treatment of psychiatric disorders
• Contains useful ‘key point’ boxes to highlight essential information

New to This Edition

• Expanded section on recent advances in psychopharmacology, particularly in the treatment of psychosis
• Covers the new Mental Health Act and Mental Capacity Act
• Discusses the increasing role of psychotherapy in psychiatric disturbance
• Provides a useful summary of the DSM-IV classification alongside that of the ICD-10 to enable fast comparison between the two classification systems
• Summarises recent changes in NICE guidelines
• Includes a new section on eponymous psychiatric disorders e.g. de Clérambault’s and Cotard’s syndromes.

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