Part of the
College Seminars Series.
This second edition of Seminars in General Adult
Psychiatry provides a highly readable and comprehensive
account of modern adult psychiatry. More than nine years have
passed since the publication of the first edition, and significant
advances have been made in almost every area of psychiatry. This
single volume assimilates these modern developments and their
effects on clinical practice. To achieve this has meant
incorporating more than 4000 references, with many of the more
important studies being described in some detail so as to provide
the reader with some of the original data on which modern
evidence-based medicine depends.
Key features of the first edition that have been retained are
the detailed clinical descriptions of psychiatric disorders, and
historical sections to give the reader access to the classic
studies of psychiatry as well as the current evidence. Additional
topics covered here for the first time include liaison psychiatry,
psychosexual medicine, clinical epidemiology, and international and
cultural 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 NICE.
An essential text for trainees studying for their MRCPsych, this
book is also a one-stop reference work for established
practitioners.
- Comprehensive coverage of the whole of adult
psychiatry.
- Detailed clinical descriptions of both common
and rare psychiatric disorders.
- Accounts of the history, epidemiology,
diagnosis and clinical management of all the broad categories of
disorder.
- An evidence-based approach.
- New chapters on liaison psychiatry, clinical
epidemiology, psychosexual medicine, and international and cultural
psychiatry.
- Easy to read, with more than 260 tables and
boxes summarising key information.
- New compact, single-volume format.
~ Highly Commended
for the Mental Health prize of the 2008 BMA Medical Book
Competition ~
"If you want to prepare a lecture, look up an unusual case or
check out the literature in any area of general psychiatry, this is
your book. It is clearly written and designed, as fresh as
any textbook can be, and should be on any general adult consultant
psychiatrist's desk, given its comprehensive and accessible
nature."
British Journal of Hospital
Medicine
"This is a key text on general adult psychiatry which is relied
upon by psychiatry trainees. Overall, this second edition is a
great improvement on the first edition and is presented in a way
that enables much better use to be made of it as a key text and
reference book."
2008 BMA Medical Book Competition
Programme
"As a textbook for the specialism of general adult psychiatry it
serves its purpose well. For trainees proceeding to the
MRCPsych in particular it is a worthwhile purchase. ...My
review copy, it's worth noting, has gone straight from my desk to
my trainee's as he prepares for his exams."
The British Journal of Psychiatry
"This is a great book...both interesting to read and covers all
the necessary aspects of that broadest of topics, general adult
psychiatry. ...Remarkably detailed, easy to use, and surprisingly
up-to-date intellectual resource."
British Journal of Hospital
Medicine
Contents
List of tables, boxes and figures
List of contributors
Preface to the second edition
Preface to the first edition
1. Clinical features of depressive disorders -
Alan Lee
2. Mania, bipolar disorder and their treatment
- John Cookson
3. The causes of depression - Kezia Lange
and Anne Farmer
4. Drug treatment of depression - Morris
Bernadt
5. Electroconvulsive therapy and other
physical therapies - Arun Jha
6. Psychological treatment of depression -
Stirling Moorey
7. Suicide and non-fatal deliberate self-harm
- Christopher A. Vassilas, Gethin Morgan, John Owen and George
Tadros
8. Schizophrenia: the clinical picture -
Peter F. Liddle
9. Schizoaffective, paranoid and other
psychoses - Clive Mellor
10. The aetiology of schizophrenia - Pak
Sham, Peter Woodruff, Michael Hunter and Julian Leff
11. The pharmacological management of
schizophrenia - Amlan Basu, Jerson Pereira and Katherine J.
Aitchison
12. Schizophrenia: psychological and social
approaches to treatment and care - Frank Holloway and George
Stein
13. Anxiety disorders - Spilios
Argyropoulos, Adam Campbell and George Stein
14. Phobias - Lynne M. Drummond and Naomi
A. Fineberg
15. Obsessive–compulsive disorder - Lynne
M. Drummond and Naomi A. Fineberg
16. Conversion and dissociative disorders,
hypochondriasis and chronic pain - Tom Brown and Harold
Merskey
17. Psychiatry in the general hospital -
Hiroko Akagi and Allan House
18. Clinical features of the personality and
impulse control disorders - Patricia Casey
19. Treatment and outcome of the personality
disorders - Michael Stone
20. Organic psychiatric disorders - Robin
Jacobson, Irshaad Ebrahim and Michael Kopelman
21. Psychiatric aspects of neurological
disorders - Jonathan Bird and Danny Rogers
22. Toxic, metabolic and endocrine disorders -
Roger Howells
23. Sleep disorders - Gregory Stores and
Irshaad Ebrahim
24. Anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa -
Janet Treasure
25. Perinatal psychiatric disorders -
George Stein
26. Psychosexual medicine for psychiatrists -
Peter Trigwell and Gill Kirk
27. Clinical epidemiology - Matthew
Hotopf
28. Principles of nosology - Anne Farmer
and Muna Adwa
29. Mental health services - Rosalind
Ramsay and Frank Holloway
30. Psychiatry in general practice - Greg
Wilkinson
31. Cultural and international psychiatry -
Vikram Patel and George Stein
Index