Bruce J. Cohen, Cohen

Theory and Practice of Psychiatry

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Based on years of teaching psychiatry to medical students and residents, this single-authored textbook offers a conversational yet detailed guide to modern psychiatric theory and practice. Exploring various approaches to psychiatric disorders - including neurobiology, dimensional personality assessment, behavioral science, and psychodynamic and cognitive theories - it lucidly illustrates each approach's strengths and weaknesses and suggests how clinicians can interweave them in working with patients. Using clinical vignettes and recent research findings to illustrate the connections between phenomenology, pathophysiology, and treatment, it covers all of the major psychiatric disorders and includes tables listing their DSM-IV-TR diagnostic criteria. The book offers balanced coverage of subjects that receive scant attention in other introductory textbooks, including the limitations of the DSM-IV categorical approach to psychiatric diagnosis, controversies surrounding the dissociative disorders and "recovered memories," and the prescription of stimulant medications to children with suspected attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder. Later chapters provide practical guidelines for estimating a patient's risk of suicide and violence and for assessing competence to consent to medical or psychiatric treatment. In eschewing a dry recitation of clinical syndromes for an engaging discussion aimed at teaching the reader how to "think psychiatrically," the book will appeal to medical students, psychiatric residents, mental health clinicians, and primary care physicians.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 578
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 1072g
• ISBN-13: 9780195149388
• ISBN-10: 0195149386
• Artikelnr.: 21312506

Inhaltsangabe

1: Mental life and its assessment
2: The psychiatric evaluation
3: Psychiatric formulation from multiple perspectives
4: Clinical neurobiology from multiple perspective
5: Delirium
6: Dementia
7: Mood disorders
8: Schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders
9: Anxiety disorders
10: Personality disorders
11: Eating disorders
12: Substance-related disorders
13: Somatoform disorders
14: Dissociative disorders
15: Sexual and gender identity disorders
16: Suicide
17: Violence
18: Psychotherapy
19: Childhood disorders
20: Forensic psychiatry