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