Seminars in General Adult Psychiatry (2nd edition)-[2nd]-[e Stein].pdf

STEIN & WILKINSON
The second edition of Seminars in General Adult Psychiatry provides a
highly readable prehensive account of modern adult psychiatry.
More than nine years have passed since the publication of the first college seminars series
edition, and significant advances have been made in almost every area
of psychiatry. This single volume assimilates these developments and
their effects on clinical practice. To achieve this has meant incorporating
more than 4000 references, with many of the more important studies
being described in detail to provide the reader with some of the original
data on which current evidence-based medicine depends. Key features
of the first edition that have been retained are the detailed clinical
descriptions of psychiatric disorders, and historical sections to give
the reader access to the classic studies of psychiatry. Additional topics

covered here for the first time include liaison psychiatry, psychosexual
medicine, clinical epidemiology, and international and cultural psychiatry. seminars in
Clinical management is given due prominence, with extensive accounts Seminars in General Adult Psychiatry  
of modern drug management, cognitive therapy, the main psychosocial
approaches, and current guidelines such as those published by NICE.
An essential text for trainees studying for their MRCPsych, this book is
also a one-stop reference work for established practitioners. general adult
• Comprehensive coverage of the whole of adult psychiatry psychiatry
• Detailed clinical descriptions of mon and rare psychiatric
disorders
second edition
• Accounts of the history, epidemiology, diagnosis and clinical
management of all the broad categories of disorder
• An evidence-based approach
• New chapters on liaison psychiatry, clinical epidemiology, psycho-
sexual medicine, and international and cultural psychiatry
• Easy to read, with more than 260 tables and boxes summarising
key informati