Product Description

Psychiatry: An Oxford Core Text introduces the subject to the medical student in a concise, innovative and memorable way. Praised by lecturers and students alike for making even the most esoteric aspects of psychiatry accessible, this book will also appeal to social work and clinical psychology students, general practitioners and clinicians and health workers who see patients with psychiatric problems in the course of their practice. The book covers the most important psychiatric problems and includes a comprehensive coverage of signs, symptoms and diagnosis, assessment, aetiology, and psychiatry and the law. Psychiatry: An Oxford Core Text * introduces the major psychiatric problems * focuses on the management of psychiatry problems in everyday clinical practice * gives advice on the referral of patients to specialist psychiatrists * covers the general principles of history-taking and assessment * includes genuine case histories, key points and further reading

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #41005 in Books
• Published on: 2005-03-03
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 334 pages

Customer Reviews

The text to have
For students of any mental health profession, this is an essential text. If you have ever come across Maurice Sainsbury's "Key to Psychiatry", found its approach direct, concise and waffle-free and longed for a more up-to-date text like it, this is it. It is linked throughout to the ICD-10 and DSM-IV (as every psychiatry text should!) The text doesn't spare a word, the language is rich and free of vague opinionating. Packed as it is with key facts and concise, clear explanations there is little room left for waxing lyrical! But if you like your text books to-the-point, with plenty of bullet-pointed tables elucidating concepts at-a-glance and set out under easy-to-find headings in bite-size chunks, this text does it without using the rich detail needed. Get it!

Comprehensive coverage, but rather dry and uninspiring
This book does exactly what is says on the cover. At 500 pages, it is a concise, practical textbook covering the core knowledge needed by clinical medical students and other health workers who may encounter patients with psychiatric problems.

Unfortunately, it is extremely dry. No attempts are made to bring the subject to life through illustrative case histories, there are no easy-to-grasp diagrams/flow charts and no self-assessment quizzes to test the reader. Reading more than a few pages can therefore be extremely hard going (I wouldn't even attempt it for cramming - you won't take anything in).

I ended up using it as a reference book, when my far more user friendly "Psychiatry At A Glance" wasn't quite up to scratch. On the plus side, the sections on evaluation, risk assessment and management for each condition are universally clear and comprehensive.

Once you have met a patient with the psychiatric condition described, this book will contain everything you need (big picture and little extras) to impress at ward rounds. But don't expect a thrilling read!

All you need!
This book is all you need to start learning psychiatry. It's great for reading up before you see any psychiatric problems in vivo, and for checking in with after you've that. It has simply divided chapters that break everything down into easy sections to learn one at a time.
It isn't filled with words you won't understand, especially as it has a whole chapeter on just describing symptoms!
This book is great for my level (medical student) and I've seen it being used by higher grades of medical professionals too.