Psychiatry
"This is a textbook for undergraduates and an excellent one at that."Oxford Journals, June 2010"The publication of Neel Burton's excellent 2nd edition ofPsychiatryis particularly opportune, coming as it does during what some have described as the specialty’s ‘recruitment crisis’. This undergraduate textbook is colourful, concise and engaging, the ideal primer to pique a student’s interest in mental health studies.By turns intellectually challenging and entertaining (its first two quotations come from Nietzsche andAlice in Wonderland) the text is easily picked up and dipped into at random or studied more earnestly, chapter-by-chapter. Each section is introduced with a list of learning objectives and concluded with a summary of key facts. Its salient points are delivered alongside informative, appropriately selected case studies and consolidated with 12 pages of self-assessment of the widely used ‘Extended Matching’ (EMQ) variety."International Journal of Culture and Mental Health