Psychiatry and medicine Psychiatry, medicine, and mind–body dualism Epidemiology of psychiatric disorder in medical settings The presentation of psychiatric disorder in medical settings Comorbidity: the co-occurrence of psychiatric and medical…
Anxiety and obsessive–compulsive disorders Terminology and classification Anxiety disorders Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) Phobic anxiety disorders Panic disorder Mixed anxiety and depressive disorder Transcultural variations in anxiety disorder Obsessive–compulsive disorder…
Psychiatric services Introduction The history of psychiatric services The components of a mental health service Services for psychiatric disorder in primary care Specialist services for acute psychiatric disorder Psychiatric services…
Classification Introduction Concepts of mental illness Criticisms of classification The history of classification Organizing principles of contemporary classifications Reliability and validity Current psychiatric classifications Current and future issues in psychiatric…
Paranoid symptoms and syndromes Introduction Paranoid symptoms Paranoid personality disorder Paranoid symptoms in psychiatric disorders Delusional disorders (paranoid psychoses) Specific delusional disorders Assessment of paranoid symptoms Treatment of paranoid symptoms…
Assessment Introduction Psychiatric interviewing The psychiatric history The mental state examination Other components of psychiatric assessment Special kinds of psychiatric assessment Patient characteristics that may affect the interview Integrating and…
Suicide and deliberate self-harm Introduction Suicide The assessment of suicidal risk The management of suicidal patients Suicide prevention Deliberate self-harm The management of deliberate self-harm Introduction Suicide is among the…
Personality and personality disorder Personality Personality types The origins of personality The assessment of personality Personality disorder The historical development of ideas about abnormal personality The classification of abnormal personalities…
Psychological treatments Introduction How psychological treatments developed Classification of psychological treatments Common factors in psychological treatment Counselling and crisis intervention Supportive psychotherapy Interpersonal psychotherapy Cognitive–behaviour therapy Individual dynamic psychotherapies Treatment…
