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Psychiatry: Made Simple presents the aspects of patient management particularly those with psychotic illnesses and long term disability. It discusses the psychiatric problems associated with AIDS and tranquilliser abuse. It addresses the orthodox standard National Health Service practice of treatmen...
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Heinemann Professional Publishing,
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| Publisher Address: | Oxford : |
| Publication Dates: |
[1990] ©1990 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | Second edition. |
| Series: |
Made simple books
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| Online Access: |
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780434908066 |
| Summary: |
Psychiatry: Made Simple presents the aspects of patient management particularly those with psychotic illnesses and long term disability. It discusses the psychiatric problems associated with AIDS and tranquilliser abuse. It addresses the orthodox standard National Health Service practice of treatment. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (xvii, 353 pages). |
| ISBN: |
9781483183114 1483183114 |
| Index Number: | RC454 |
| CLC: | R749 |
| Contents: |
Front Cover; Psychiatry; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Preface to the second edition; Preface to the first edition; Acknowledgements; Part 1: Concepts in Psychiatry; Chapter 1. Definitions; What is Psychiatry?; Detection; Who is a Psychiatrist?; Terminology-Madness and the Mind; Further Reading; Questions; Chapter 2. General Concepts; Health Service; Type of Hospital Cases; Community Care; Out-patient Referrals; Normality: What is It?; Abnormalities in a Normal Curve of Distribution; Personality-Normal Ranges; Intelligence; Mental Retardation-Amentia v. Dementia; Community. LimitationsFurther Reading; Questions; Chapter 3. Hospital Admission under the Mental Health Act 1983; Reasons for Admission; The Mental Health Act 1983; Further Reading; Questions; Chapter 4. History of Psychiatry; Early Acts; The Mental Health Act 1959; The Mental Health Act 1983; Diagnostic Criteria; The Psychoses; Drug Therapy; The Major Tranquillisers; Anti-depressants; Psychotherapy; Further Reading; Questions; Chapter 5. Causation; Labelling; Aetiological Factors; Research into Schizophrenia; Research into Affective Illness; Research into Neuroses. Personality Disorders-Environmental InfluencesFurther Reading; Questions; Chapter 6. Treatment; General Concepts; In-patient or Out-patient?; Drug Therapy or Medication; Anxiolytics; Anti-depressants; Neuroleptics; Physical Methods of Treatment; Relaxation Techniques; Psychotherapy; Behaviour Therapy; Further Reading; Questions; Chapter 7. Psychotherapy; Types of Psychotherapy; Transference; Individual Psychotherapy; Group Therapy; Psychodrama; Gestalt Therapy; Bioenergetics; Transactional Analysis; Cognitive Therapy; Family Therapy; Behavioural Psychotherapy; Further Reading; Questions. Chapter 8. ElectroplexyThe Nature of Electroplexy; Insulin Coma Therapy; Effects of Electroplexy; Evidence of Effectiveness; Research and Efficacy; Mode of Action; Hazards; Anaesthetic Risks; Dangers of Withholding Treatment; Further Reading; Questions; Chapter 9. Relationship of Psychiatry with Other Disciplines ('Liaison Psychiatry'); General Practice; Neurology; Psychology; Sociology; Biochemistry; Pharmacology; Statistics; Neurosurgery (Leucotomy); Further Reading; Questions; Part 2: Psychiatric Syndromes; Chapter 10. Conditions Where Disorder of Thought Predominates; Summary; Description. Incidence and CausationBiochemical Disturbance; Epidemiology; Symptom Patterns; Hebephrenia; Hallucinations; Other Symptoms; Simple Schizophrenia; Catatonia; Paranoid Schizophrenia; Paraphrenia; Paranoia; Residual Schizophrenia; Treatment; Rehabilitation; Prognosis; Further Reading; Questions; Chapter 11. Conditions Where Disorder of Affect Predominates; Summary; Description; Suicide; Unipolar Affective Psychosis; Treatment; Bipolar Affective Psychosis; Puerperal Psychosis; Mania and Hypomania; Aggression and Aggressive Psychosis; Further Reading; Questions. |