Tareen's Understanding Psychiatry English 2016

This book provides an accessible, up-to-date and comprehensive text that is focused on clinical psychiatry. It gives a concise introduction to various psychiatric topics and emphasizes an evidence based approach. One of its key and most distinguishing feature is the succinct lists of very helpful questions for eliciting various aspects of history and mental state examination. This book will be an invaluable guide for psychiatric trainees, general practitioners and medical students as well as for other mental health professionals including psychologists, nurses, social workers, occupational therapists and physicians associates. The book contains following chapters: Signs and Symptoms of Psychiatric Disorders, The Psychiatric Interview, History Taking and Mental State Examination, Anxiety Disorders, Mood (Affective) Disorders, Schizophrenia and Related Disorders, Personality Disorders, Alcohol and Drug Dependence, Psychiatry and Medicine, Dissociative (Conversion) and Somatoform Disorders, Neuropsychiatry and Old Age Psychiatry, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Intellectual Disability, Forensic Psychiatry, Perinatal and Psychiatric Disorders Specific to Women, Sleep Disorders, Psychosexual Disorders, Eating Disorders, Psychological Methods of Treatment, Drugs and Other Physical Treatments.