Gelder, Michael G.

Psychiatry / Michael Gelder, Richard Mayou, John Geddes. - 3rd ed. - Oxford ;;New York : Oxford University Press, 2005 - 333 p. : ill. 24.5 cm. - Oxford medical publications;Oxford core texts .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Signs, symptoms, and diagnosis -- Assessment -- Aetiology and the scientific basis of psychiatry -- Personality and its disorders -- Reactions to stressful experiences -- Anxiety and obsessional disorders -- Physical symptoms not explained by organic pathology -- Mood disorders -- Schizophrenia and related disorders -- Delirium, dementia, and other cognitive disorders -- Psychiatry and medicine -- Eating and sleep disorders -- Suicide and deliberate self-harm -- Problems due to the use of alcohol and other psychoactive substances -- Problems of sexuality and gender -- Psychiatry of the elderly -- Drugs and other physical treatments -- Psychological treatment -- Mental health care for the community -- Child and adolescent psychiatry -- Learning disability -- Psychiatry and the law.

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Mental Disorders

WM 140 / .G45 2005