In-patient Child Psychiatry: Modern Practice, Research and the Future

The definative textbook on inpatient psychiatric treatment which covers the essential theory of this method of treatment and is a guide to the state-of-the-art clinical treatment of psychiatric disorders.

Treatment Without Consent: Law, Psychiatry and the Treatment of Mentally Disordered

Traces the history of the treatment of mental disorder over last 150 years with particular focus on treatment without consent. Provides a table of legal sources and an extensive bibliography.

Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

A textbook on modern child psychiatry written for child psychiatrists and students of developmental psychopathology and child and adolescent psychiatry.

Psychiatry: PreTest Self-Assessment and Review

Now updated to reflect the USMLE Step 2 exam, with greater emphasis on case presentations and diagnostic skills. Contains approximately 400 new clinical vignettes with accompanying questions (500 questions in all) - now featuring expanded answers referenced to leading textbooks or journal articles. Reviewed by McGraw-Hill's Medical Student Advisory Committee to ensure simulation of the USMLE test-taking experience.

Hormones, Gender and the Aging Brain: The Endocrine Basis of Geriatric Psychiatry

This pioneering clinical reference addresses the hormonal basis of mental disorders in older people. Written by an eminent team of psychiatrists, psychologists, geriatricians and neuropharmacologists, it ranges from the impact of hormones on pain tolerance and anorexia to attention, depression, immunity, cardiovascular and cognitive function, and psychosis.

Handbook of Medical Psychiatry

This volume examines attempts to identify genetic risk factors and environmental components contributing to the development of psychiatric disorders. It explores the symptoms, courses, outcomes, treatment responses and aetiologies of a range of psychiatric illnesses.

Clinical Guidelines in Old Age Psychiatry

This book documents the wide range of published guidelines for the diagnosis, investigation and treatment of mental disorders affecting older people.

Polypharmacy in Psychiatry

This text examines the advantages and disadvantages of polypharmacy in psychiatry, and provides clinical guidelines on the appropriate use of combinations of pharmacological therapy in major psychiatric disorders.

Pharmacoeconomics in Psychiatry

The first text to provide an authoritative economic evaluation of the use of drugs in psychiatry, this offers pragmatic yet scientifically robust reviews of the pharmacoeconomic aspects of drug prescribing in order to improve clinical practice.

Handbook of Medical Psychiatry

Details techniques to model and predict the effects of antipsychotic drugs and discusses the validity and reliability of modern classification systems. Analyzes new developments that can increase efficiency in the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment o

Recovery from Schizophrenia: Psychiatry and Political Economy

Shows how instrumental political and economic forces are in shaping responses to the mentally ill, moulding treatment and influencing the onset and course of schizophrenia. Analysis of new research to bring the revised edition up-to-date.

Clinical Psychiatry

A medical reference text with detailed work-ups, treatment plans, medicines and differentials for a myriad of medical conditions. Topics include: Sleep disorders (insomnia, PMLS, RLS, Narcolepsy...), depression, psychosis, the psychiatric exam, domestic violence, child abuse, substance abuse (tobacco, cocaine, opioid, ETOH, etc), ..

Neuroimaging in Psychiatry

Neuroimaging in Psychiatry is an introductory, easy-to-read guide focusing on the clinical relevance of neuroimaging findings, targeting psychiatrists and other non-expert clinicians as well as students.

Practical Child Psychiatry

The majority of children with mental health problems are managed by general practitioners, paediatricians, and other allied health care workers, who are not necessarily trained in child and adolescent mental health. This book is written especially for these groups.