Name: Core Psychiatry By Padraig Wright
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Core Psychiatry Summary

Core Psychiatry by Padraig Wright

This book was highly commended (Mental Health category) for the BMA Awards, 2005. It is a concise textbook for trainee psychiatrists preparing for the MRCPsych and similar exams, covering in one volume all the subjects required for the exam.

Part 1 The Foundations of Psychiatry - A brief history of psychiatry. Clinical neuroanatomy. Psychiatric genetics. Human personality development. Psychology. Descriptive psychopathology. Social psychiatry and sociology. Cultural psychiatry. Epidemiology. Critical appraisal: reading academic papers and reviewing scientific evidence. Challenges to psychiatry: antipsychiatry, the user movement and stigma. Part 2: Clinical Psychiatry - Psychiatry of learning. Child and adolescent learning. Personality disorders. Anxiety disorders. Psychiatry and general medicine. Eating disorders. Schizophrenia and related disorders. Unipolar depression. Bipolar disorder. Suicide and deliberate self harm. Unusual psychiatric syndromes. Psychiatry and women. Adult sequelae of childhood sexual abuse. Sexual disorders. Organic psychiatry. Drugs and alcohol. Psychoactive drugs other than alcohol. Community psychiatry. Forensic psychiatry. Psychiatry of old age. Part 3: Diagnosis, investigation and treatment - Clinical assessment of psychiatric patients. Classification and diagnosis. Neuroimaging and electroencephalography. Risk assessment and emergency psychiatry. Psychotherapy - individual, family and group. Behavioural and cognitive psychotherapies. ECT and psychosurgies. Psychopharmacology. The law and psychiatry.

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GOR008467546

ISBN 13

9780702027185

ISBN 10

0702027189

Title

Core Psychiatry by Padraig Wright

Author

Padraig Wright

Series

MRCPSY Study Guides

Condition

Used - Good

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Elsevier Health Sciences

Year published

20041123

Number of pages

672

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N/A

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Core Psychiatry Padraig Wright

Core Psychiatry by Padraig Wright

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Core Psychiatry Summary

Core Psychiatry by Padraig Wright

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