Search Results

34.2 Palliative Care Zisook S, Shear MK, Irwin SA. Death, dying, and bereavement. In: Sadock BJ, Sadock VA, Ruiz P, eds. Kaplan & Sadock’s Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry. 9th edition. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 2009:2378. 34.2 Palliativ...

34.3 Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide Risse GB, Balboni MJ. Shifting hospital-hospice boundaries: Historical perspectives on the institutional care of the dying. Am J Hospice Palliat Med. 2013;19:325. Smith TJ, Temin S, Alesi ER, Abernethy AP, Balboni...

35 Public Psychiatry 35 Public Psychiatry The subject area of public psychiatry embodies a fundamental core of experience and tradition. In the context of the reexamination of American health care initiated by the effect of managed care and the health care ref...

36.1 Forensic Psychiatry Forensic Psychiatry and Ethics in Psychiatry 36.1 Forensic Psychiatry The word forensic means belonging to the courts of law, and at various times, psychiatry and the law converge. Forensic psychiatry covers a broad range of topics tha...

36.2 Ethics in Psychiatry 36.2 Ethics in Psychiatry Ethical guidelines and a knowledge of ethical principles help psychiatrists avoid ethical conflicts (which can be defined as tension between what one wants to do and what is ethically right to do) and think t...

37 World Aspects of Psychiatry 37 World Aspects of Psychiatry Mental disorders are highly prevalent in all regions of the world and represent a major source of disability and social burden worldwide. Treatments for all of these disorders are available and have...

Glossary Signs and Symptoms in Psychiatry Glossary of Terms Relating to Signs and Symptoms abreaction: A process by which repressed material, particularly a painful experience or a conflict, is brought back to consciousness; in this process, the person not onl...

Drugs Used in Psychiatry Drugs Used in Psychiatry This guide contains color reproductions of some commonly prescribed psychotherapeutic drugs. This guide mainly illustrates proprietary tablets and capsules. A † preceding the name of a drug indicates that other...

1 Thinking about psychiatry 1 Thinking about psychiatry First thoughts  2 What is disease?  6 The role of the psychiatrist  8 Diagnosis in psychiatry  10 DSM-​5 and all that . . .  12 Why do psychiatrists not look at the brain?  14 Can psychotherapy change the...

2 Psychiatric assessment 45 Psychiatric assessment The clinical interview  46 Setting the scene  48 Interviewing psychiatric patients  50 Discussing management  52 History  54 Mental state examination  56 Case summary  58 Observations of appearance and behavio...

3 Symptoms of psychiatric illness 99 Symptoms of psychiatric illness Symptoms of psychiatric illness  100 Dictionary of psychiatric symptoms  102 Chapter 3 100 Chapter 3  Symptoms of psychiatric illness Symptoms of psychiatric illness In general medicine, symp...

4 Neuropsychiatry 121 Neuropsychiatry A brief history of neuropsychiatry  122 What is neuropsychiatry?  124 Psychiatric presentations of organic illness  126 Neurological examination in psychiatry  128 Neurological investigations in psychiatry  130 Movement di...

5 Schizophrenia and related psychoses 179 Schizophrenia and related psychoses Introduction  180 Historical views of schizophrenia  182 The diagnosis of schizophrenia  184 Differential diagnosis of schizophrenia  186 Aetiological theories  188 Epidemiology of s...

6 Depressive illness 241 Depressive illness Introduction  242 Historical perspective  244 Diagnosis 1: symptoms  246 Diagnosis 2: caseness and subtypes  250 Diagnosis 3: other clinical presentations and differential  252 Epidemiology  254 Aetiology 1  256 Aeti...

7 Bipolar illness 315 Bipolar illness Introduction  316 Historical perspective  318 Mania/​manic episode  320 Hypomania/​hypomanic episode  322 Bipolar spectrum disorder  324 Bipolar (affective) disorder 1: classification  328 Bipolar (affective) disorder 2: c...

8 Anxiety and stress-​related disorders 361 Anxiety and stress-​related disorders Introduction  362 Historical perspective  364 Hyperventilation syndrome  366 Panic disorder 1: clinical features  368 Panic disorder 2: aetiological models  370 Panic disorder 3:...

9 Eating and impulse-​control disorders 409 Eating and impulse-​control disorders Anorexia nervosa 1: overview  410 Anorexia nervosa 2: physical consequences  412 Anorexia nervosa 3: assessment  414 Anorexia nervosa 4: management  416 Bulimia nervosa  418 Impu...

10 Sleep–​wake disorders 431 Sleep–​wake disorders Introduction  432 A brief history of sleep research  434 Normal sleep: stages and cycles  436 Assessing sleep–​wake disorders  438 Insomnia 1: overview  440 Insomnia 2: general management strategies  442 Sleep...