Contents

1 The psychiatric history and mental state examination (MSE)

2 Diagnosis and classification in psychiatry

3 Schizophrenia: phenomenology and aetiology

4 Schizophrenia: management and prognosis

5 Depression

6 Bipolar affective disorder (including mania)

7 Suicide and deliberate self-harm (DSH)

8 Stress reactions (including bereavement)

9 Anxiety disorders

10 Obsessions and compulsions

11 Eating disorders

12 Disorders of personality

13 Substance misuse

14 Alcohol abuse and dependence

15 Disorders of female reproductive life

16 Functional disorders in old age

17 Acute confusional states (delirium)

18 The dementias

19 Neuropsychiatry I

20 Neuropsychiatry II

21 Child psychiatry I

22 Child psychiatry II

23 The psychiatry of adolescence

24 Learning disability (mental retardation)

25 Consultation–liaison psychiatry

26 Psychiatry in the community

27 Forensic psychiatry

28 The 1983 Mental Health Act (MHA)

29 Risk assessment and management in psychiatry

30 Psychosexual disorders

31 Psychiatric aspects of HIV and AIDS

32 Psychological treatments

33 Physical treatments I

34 Physical treatments II

35 Cross-cultural psychiatry

36 Unusual psychiatric syndromes

37 Preparing for clinical examinations in psychiatry

Further Reading, Questions, Answers, Index