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Psychiatry /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Burton, Neel L.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Pub., 2006.
Subjects:
Psychiatry.
Psychiatry > methods.
Mental Disorders.
Mental Health Services.
Online Access:Table of contents
Table of Contents:
  • A brief history of psychiatry
  • Patient assessment
  • The delivery of mental health care
  • Schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders
  • Affective (mood) disorders
  • Suicide and deliberate self-harm
  • Neurotic, stress-related, and somatoform disorders (anxiety disorders)
  • Personality disorders
  • Organic psychiatric disorders (delirium and dementias)
  • Mental retardation (learning disabilities)
  • Substance misuse
  • Eating, sleep, and sexual disorders
  • Child and adolescent psychiatry
  • So, why a career in psychiatry?