Essentials of Psychiatry
Publisher: Wiley
Published: August 30, 2006
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1092
ISBN-13: 9780470018545
First sentence: It was Freud who raised the psychiatric technique of examination - listening - to a level of expertise unexplored in earlier eras.
Description: Provides a synopsis of the most critical material in the field of psychiatry. It covers the whole field, including assessment of the patient, definitions of each disorder, all treatment options and prognosis. The phenomenological classification of disorders is based on the APA's DSM-IV-TR: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. This is followed by full treatment plans for each condition and a review of each therapy option in a dedicated therapeutics section.