Research Catalog

Title

Psychiatry / John Geddes, Jonathan Price, Rebecca McKnight ; with Michael Gelder and Richard Mayou.

Author

Geddes, John (John R.)

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2012.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Price, Jonathan, 1967-
• McKnight, Rebecca.
• Gelder, Michael G.

Description

viii, 477 pages : illustrations; 27 cm

Subjects

• Psychiatry
• Mental illness
• mental disorders
• Mental Disorders

Note

• Rev. ed. of: Psychiatry / Michael Gelder, Richard Mayou, John Geddes. 3rd ed. c2005.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

PART 1: INTRODUCTION; 1. Introduction; 2. The scale of the problem; 3. Mental disorder and you; PART 2: ASSESSMENT; 4. Symptoms and signs of illness; 5. Conducting the assessment; 6. Thinking about diagnosis; 7. Thinking about aetiology; 8. Thinking about prognosis; 9. Risk assessment and management; 10. Communicating your findings; PART 3: MANAGEMENT; 11. General aspects of care: settings of care; 12. Psychiatry and the law; 13. Drugs and other physical treatments; 14. Psychological therapies; 15. Social treatments; 16. Managing behavioural disturbance; PART 4: MANAGEMENT OF SPECIFIC GROUPS; 17. Child and adolescent psychiatry: General aspects of care; 18. Psychiatry of older adults; 19. Learning disability; 20. People presenting with physical disorder; PART 5: THE SPECIFIC DISORDERS; 21. Mood disorders; 22. Schizophrenia; 23. Reactions to stressful experiences; 24. Anxiety and obsessional disorders; 25. Medically unexplained physical symptoms; 26. Cognitive disorders; 27. Eating disorders; 28. Sleep disorders; 29. Problems due to use of alcohol and other psychoactive substances; 30. Problems of sexuality and gender; 31. Personality and its disorders; 32. Child and Adolescent psychiatry: Specific disorders; PART 6: PSYCHIATRY AND YOU; 33. Psychiatry and you.

ISBN

• 9780199233960
• 0199233969

LCCN

2011030652

OCLC

• ocn743275878
• 743275878
• SCSB-9785269

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library