Psychiatry E-Book, 3rd Edition
Psychiatry: An Illustrated Colour Text, Third Edition provides a highly visual experience, with each topic covered across two pages that you can review and digest easily. For each spread there are summary boxes, questions and answers and self-assessment tasks that will help with understanding and revision.
This wonderful book covers a wide range of subjects, from mental health services to different treatments, the full range of disorders, and psychiatry specialisations. It thus provides an ideal introduction to psychiatry for medical students or anyone learning about mental health for the first time.
Psychiatry: An Illustrated Colour Text, Third Edition provides a highly visual experience, with each topic covered across two pages that you can review and digest easily. For each spread there are summary boxes, questions and answers and self-assessment tasks that will help with understanding and revision.
This wonderful book covers a wide range of subjects, from mental health services to different treatments, the full range of disorders, and psychiatry specialisations. It thus provides an ideal introduction to psychiatry for medical students or anyone learning about mental health for the first time.
New to this edition
- Fully updated throughout
- Information on the new Mental Health Act
- A new section on Neurodevelopmental disorders
Key Features
- Introductory level coverage of a complex topic, presented in an engaging way
- Concise double page spreads for each topic – allows you to absorb information quickly
- Stimulating and easy to read, with summaries and revision aids throughout
- Full-colour line diagrams to demonstrate essential concepts
- Practical advice on patient care
- Modern pharmacological treatment of psychiatric disorders
Author Information
| ISBN Number | 9780323936439 |
|---|---|
| Main Author | By Lesley Stevens, MB, BS, FRCPsych and Ian Rodin, BM, MRCPsych |
| Copyright Year | 2025 |
| Edition Number | 3 |
| Format | eBook |
| Trim | 210w x 297h (8.25" x 11.68") |
| Imprint | Elsevier |
| Page Count | 110 |
| Publication Date | 1 Mar 2024 |
| Stock Status | IN STOCK |


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1. Mental health services I
2. Mental health services II
3. Classification in psychiatry
4. History and aetiology
5. Mental state examination
6. Assessment of risk
7. Management plan and formulation
8. Psychiatry in primary care
9. Mental capacity
10. The Mental Health Act
Treatment in Psychiatry
11. Introduction to drug treatments
12. Prescribing psychotropic drugs
13. Antipsychotic drugs
14. Antidepressant drugs
15. Mood stabilisers, benzodiazepines and ECT
16. Psychological treatments
17. Family and social treatments
18. Recovery and social inclusion
Schizophrenia
19. Diagnosis and classification of schizophrenia
20. Epidemiology and aetiology of schizophrenia
21. Acute and chronic schizophrenia
22. Management of schizophrenia
Mood Disorders
23. Classification of mood disorders
24. Epidemiology and aetiology of mood disorders
25. Bipolar disorder – clinical presentation and management
26. Depressive disorder – clinical presentation
27. Depressive disorder – management
Anxiety and Related Disorders
28. Anxiety- and fear-related disorders – clinical presentation and aetiology
29. Anxiety- and fear-related disorders – management
30. Obsessive–compulsive disorders
31. Disorders associated with stress
32. Dissociative and bodily distress disorders
Personality Disorders
33. Personality disorders – introduction and classification
34. Personality disorders – management
Substance Misuse and Addictive Behaviours
35. Alcohol dependence I
36. Alcohol dependence II
37. Substance misuse
Psychiatric Specialties
38. Older people’s mental health services and functional illness
39. Dementia diagnosis
40. Management of dementia
41. Dementia in the general hospital
42. Neurodevelopmental disorders
43. Learning disabilities
44. Child and adolescent psychiatry I
45. Child psychiatry II
46. Eating disorders
47. Liaison psychiatry
48. Forensic psychiatry
49. Perinatal psychiatry
50. Sexual dysfunction