Psychiatery 2nd Edition : An Illustrated Colour Text

* 2011 Winner - BMA Book Awards - Student Textbook - Psychiatry *

This innovative resource provides a highly visual introduction to the basic principles and practice of psychiatry. Each topic is covered in a single two-page unit to make reference and study uncommonly easy and effective. Abundant full-colour line diagrams, clinical photographs, and MRI images demonstrate essential concepts at a glance.

Concise, double page spread permits rapid review of essential information

Wide range of colour clinical photographs, MRI scans and artwork schematics

Provides practical advice regarding patient care

Covers modern pharmacological treatment of psychiatric disorders

Contains useful 'key point' boxes to highlight essential information

Expanded section on recent advances in psychopharmacology, particularly in the treatment of psychosis

Covers the new Mental Health Act and Mental Capacity Act

Discusses the increasing role of psychotherapy in psychiatric disturbance

Provides a useful summary of the DSM-IV classification alongside that of the ICD-10 to enable fast comparison between the two classification systems

Summarises recent changes in NICE guidelines

Includes a new section on eponymous psychiatric disorders e.g. de Cl rambault's and Cotard's syndromes.