Table of Contents

1: Signs and symptoms of psychiatric disorders
2: Classification
3: Assessment
4: Ethics and civil law
5: Aetiology
6: Evidence-based approaches to psychiatry
7: Personality and personality disorder
8: Reactions to stressful experiences
9: Anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorders
10: Mood disorders
11: Schizophrenia
12: Paranoid symptoms and syndromes
13: Dementia, delirium and other neuropsychiatric disorders
14: Eating, sleep and sexual disorders
15: Psychiatry and medicine
16: Suicide and deliberate self-harm
17: Alcohol and drugs
18: Psychiatry of the elderly
19: Drugs and other physical treatments
20: Psychological treatments
21: Psychiatric services
22: Child psychiatry
23: Learning disability (mental retardation)
24: Forensic psychiatry

Reviews

`This is a valuable addition to the psychiatric literature since its main focus is to emphasize evidence-based approaches. It can be used worldwide as it includes both DSM and ICD classifications often with direct comparisons.'
Doody's Notes, Feb 2013
`Shorter Oxford Textbook of Psychiatry is a wonderful psychiatric textbook. It is well organized and covers everything from Autism to Tourette's Disorder in great detail. I give it 5 stars.'
Gregg L. Friedman MD, Psychiatrist, Amazon Review
`Review from previous edition This is an essential introductory book, best suited for psychiatric trainees, especially those preparing for the examinations. This book presents core psychiatric knowledge in a format suitable for medical students and non-psychiatrist doctors as well as psychologists, social workers, nurses and even mental health managers. I would recommend the Shorter Oxford Textbook of Psychiatry, 5th edition for every trainee in
psychiatry...'
Psychological Medicine
`an excellent textbook for doctors in training, students and other clinicians dealing with psychiatric illness in everyday practice. It represents good value for money. I would recommend it to occupational physicians as a first class text to dip into to refresh their knowledge of a particular...
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Occupational Medicine