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The Oxford Handbook of Psychiatry provides comprehensive coverage of all major psychiatric conditions and sub-specialities. It is aimed at psychiatric trainees, medical students studying psychiatry, trainees entering individual psychiatric sub-specialities, consultant psychiatrists, general practitioners and other health-care professionals who come into contact with psychiatric patients. It provides detailed and practical advice on the management of psychiatric disorders, in-depth coverage of psychiatric assessment, psychopathology, evidence-based practice, mental health and capacity legislation in the British Isles, difficult and urgent situations, transcultural psychiatry, and therapeutic issues. The new edition features a completely updated legal section with coverage of the new English mental health act, updated coverage of the Scottish mental health act and new coverage of incapacity legislation in England, Wales and Scotland, a completely updated section on schizophrenia, and the addition of new drugs and new clinical guidance from recognized institutions such as NICE. It also includes specialist chapters on learning disabilities, psychotherapy and child psychiatry reviewed and revised by specialist registrars currently working in the fields. The book is internally cross-referenced and has both key references to important papers and to further information resources. As well as being indexed alphabetically, it is also indexed by ICD-10 / DSM-IV codes, and there is a quick index for acute presentations. This handbook is practical and didactic in style, designed to provide portable reassurance to doctors beginning psychiatry. There is helpful advice for the management of difficult and urgent situations, and the text is peppered with clinical observations on the practice of clinical psychiatry and guidance based upon the experience of the authors.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #12486 in Books
• Published on: 2009-03-26
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Vinyl Bound
• 977 pages

Customer Reviews

If you buy one psychiatry book this year - make it this one.
Covering psychiatry from A to Z this book is indeed an essential for every student, trainee and even the experienced psychiatrist. Subjects ranging from the arcane to the obvious leap out with clarity. The authors' style is concise yet inspiring.

Theoretical aspects from psychoanalysis to the dopamine hypothesis are covered with attention to 'real-world' psychiatric applications. This text succeeds where others have failed in terms of ease of use and being pocket-sized!

If you're a foundation year trainee-in-waiting then don't hesitate to get in line for this essential 'road-map' for your psychiatric post. As someone who is about to sit their membership I have already found it invaluable.

Highly recommended!

Good for MRCPsych
very useful handbook both for daily practice and MRCPsych examination. Just cover everything! Concise and easy-to-read. Highly recommended

oxford handbook of psychiatry
As always Oxford have outdone themselves. A must for anyone working in this branch "medicine" be they Doctors, Nurses or HCAs. Reading this book really brings home the fact that often mental health treatment is just a blind stab at making sense of the most complex of problems. The book may also be the best piece of artillery against the medical model yet. Pay attention to the introduction to personality disorder as this it is quite alarming given the sociopolitical tension at the moment.