Psychiatry: An Evidence Based Text

Succinct, user-friendly, thoroughly referenced and prepared by leading experts in the field, this book is the only single textbook you will need to succeed in the Royal College of Psychiatrists’ MRCPsych and other related higher examinations.

• Chapters follow the structure and syllabus of the examination ensuring that you receive the necessary essential information to pass and indeed succeed.
• Approachable and succinct text with colour illustrations and key summary points further help to clarify complex concepts and provide you with useful revision tools.
• The evidence-based approach used throughout is important to help you relate theory and research to clinical practice.

The book is carefully structured and sequenced to building upon the basic sciences underpinning psychiatry, through to an in-depth description of pharmacological and psychological treatments used.


Chapter authorship drawn from the cream of UK and international psychiatry
Strong focus on the MRCPsych examination, with a clear structure based on the requirements of the examination syllabus
Practical advice and guidance offered throughout
Accessible layout with many illustrations and sources of further reading
Printed in full colour



Table of Contents:
History of psychiatry
Introduction to Evidence-based medicine
History and philosophy science
Research methods and statistics
Epidemiology
How to practice evidence-based medicine
Psychological assessment and psychometrics
Human development
Introduction to Basic psychology
Awareness
Stress
Emotion
Information processing and attention
Learning Theory
Motivation
Perception
Memory
Language and thought
Personality
Social psychology
Social science and socio-cultutral psychiatry
Cultural psychiatry
Neuroanatomy
Basic concepts in neurophysiology
Neurophysiology of Integrated behaviour
Neurogenesis and cerebralplasticity
The neuroendocrine system
The Neurophysiology of arousal and sleep
The electroencephalogram (EEG) and evoked potential studies (EPS)
Neurochemistry
Neuropathology
Neuroimaging
Genetics
Classification and diagnostic systems: ICD-10, DSM-IV-TR and DSM-V
Cognitive assessment
Neurology for Psychiatrists
Organic disorders
Schizophrenia and paranoid psychoses
Mood disorders/affective psychoses
Neuroses
Hypochondriasis
Eating disorders
Personality disorders
Perinatal psychiatry: clinical features, epidemiology, aetiology
Psychosexual medicine
Gender identity disorders
Paraphilias and sex offendors
Psychiatric assessment of physical illness
Overlapping multi-system, multi-organ illnesses/syndromes
Mental health problems: Multiple Chemical Sensitivity
Mental health problems in ME, fibromyalgia
Pain and psychiatry
Sleep and sleep disorders
Suicide and deliberate self-harm
Emergency psychiatry
Care of the dying and bereaved
Clinical psychopharmacology
ECT
rTMS & VNS
Psychotherapy: Introduction
Dynamic psychotherapy
Family therapy
Marital therapy
Group therapy
CBT
Other individual psychotherapies
Therapuetic communities
Effectiveness of psychotherapy
Addiction psychiatry
Child and adolescent psychiatry
Learning disability psychiatry
Old age psychiatry
Rehabilitation psychiatry
Management: Psychiatric services and management, and leading and organising service development and delivery
Advice to special medical services
Forensic psychiatry
Legal aspects of psychiatry
Ethics and Law
Risk assessment