Psychiatry

A concise, comprehensive textbook on mental health including numerous case studies and short references to the arts and humanities. These not only ease and facilitate learning, but also highlight the subjective experience of mental disorder and stimulate thought into the nature and challenges of the human journey. Other features of the book include full-colour used throughout; an holistic approach to patient assessment and management; clinical skills/OSCE boxes on critical competencies such as asking about delusions and hallucinations and assessing suicidal risk; a chapter on the history of psychiatry with introductions to Freud and Jung; self-assessment questions at the end of every chapter and a separate section with EMQ's. Aimed at medical students, junior doctors, GPs, mental health nurses, social workers, clinical psychologist, anthropologists, etc. Published by the author.