Psych-Lite: Psychiatry That's Easy to Read

Description

This text aims to provide the reader with a practical introduction to the complex field of psychiatry. Each concise chapter outlines fundamental information which will be invaluable for medical students beginning their psychiatry rotation. The mystery is taken out of challenging presentations such as mood disorders, personality disorders and psychotherapies.

The writing style is designed to put the reader at ease and encourage confidence in a discipline that is frequently confronting. The authors are clinical academics who enjoy making the complex understandable.

Key Features

· A convenient on-the-spot reference book
· Concise, informative chapters, each designed to be no longer than 1,000 words
· Written in an approachable style and designed to put the reader at ease

Table of Contents

1. Classification: the secret key to understanding psychiatry
2. Taking a history
3. Mental state examination
4. Making a diagnosis: proposing a formulation
5. Risk assessment
6. Mood disorders
7. Schizophrenia
8. Anxiety disorders
9. Drug and alcohol disorders
10. Personality disorders
11. Consultation-liaison psychiatry
12. Medications
13. Psychotherapies
14. Child and adolescent psychiatry
15. Old age psychiatry
Index

About the Authors

Associate Professor Rob Selzer

Director of Undergraduate Medical Education, Medicine of the Mind, School of Psychology, Psychiatry and Psychological Medicine and Director Medical Student Programs, Central Clinical School, Bayside Health, Monash University.

Associate Professor Steven Ellen

Head, Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry, Alfred Health, Prahran, Victoria. Associate Professor, Director of Master of Psychological Medicine Program, School of Psychology, Psychiatry and Psychological Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Monash University.

The authors have their own radio program “Radiotherapy” which airs Sundays at 10am on 3RRR (the biggest community radio station in Victoria). It has been running for 12 years.