Psychiatry /
Michael Gelder, Richard Mayou, John Geddes.
- 3rd ed.
- New York : Oxford University Press, c2005.
- 333 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
- Oxford medical publications Oxford core texts .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Signs, symptoms, and diagnosis -- Assessment -- Aetiology and the scientific basis of psychiatry -- Personality and its disorders -- Reactions to stressful experiences -- Anxiety and obsessional disorders -- Physical symptoms not explained by organic pathology -- Mood disorders -- Schizophrenia and related disorders -- Delirium, dementia, and other cognitive disorders -- Psychiatry and medicine -- Eating and sleeping disorders -- Suicide and deliberate self-harm -- Problems due to the use of alcohol and other psychoactive substances -- Problems of sexuality and gender -- Psychiatry of the elderly -- Drugs and other physical treatments -- Psychological treatment -- Mental health care for a community -- Child and adolescent psychiatry -- Learning disability -- Psychiatry and the law.