Shorter Oxford textbook of psychiatry /
Michael Gelder, Paul Harrison and Philip Cowen.
- 5a ed.
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
- x, 846 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [757]-822) and index.
Symptoms and signs of psychiatric disorders -- Classification and diagnosis -- Assessment -- Ethics and civil law -- Aetiology -- Evidence-based approaches to psychiatry -- Personality and personality disorder -- Reactions to stressful experiences -- Anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorders -- Somatoform and dissociative disorders -- Mood disorders -- Schizophrenia -- Paranoid symptoms and delusional disorders -- Dementia, delirium and other neuropsychiatric disorders -- Eating disorders and sleep disorders -- Psychiatry and medicine -- Suicide and deliberate self-harm -- The misuse of alcohol and drugs -- Problems related to sexuality and gender identity -- Psychiatry of the elderly -- Drugs and other physical treatments -- Psychological treatment -- Psychiatric services -- Child psychiatry -- Learning disability (mental retardation) -- Forensic psychiatry.