The Practical Handbook Of Psychiatry

The practical handbook of psychiatry has been written, by 'everyday, jobbing psychiatrists' passionate about education.

This crucial handbook is a practical guide, explaining concepts and specifically designed to make complex concepts understandable and easily digestible by anyone wishing to know more.

Inside you will discover approaches:
-Assessing the suicidal patient
-How to assess and manage the violent patient
-Assessing and managing Insomnia, depression, bipolar affective disorder, substance misuse, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
-The Mental State Examination
-And much, much more

This essential handbook brims with simple, practical, assessment approaches and criteria, management plans and pragmatic clinical algorithms. These have proved, internationally, to be exceptionally useful to medical students taking exams, junior psychiatric trainees, primary care physicians, nurse practitioners, counselors, psychologists and interested others. For this purpose it has been kept focused, concise, and as jargon-free as possible.

Feedback includes:

" an absolute godsend. clear, concise and filled with such a practical, easy-to-understand approach to common psychiatric conditions, became my best friend.
Because it is written by consultants, but explained in a way that the average person and medical students can easily understand, it helped me answer many of the questions that I considered important, and I finally understood the concepts that are important in psychiatry.
Not only that, but the authors welcome feedback - for the next version they say. I particularly enjoyed reading the sections on insomnia - which I always have before any stressful activity."

"A tour de force by Dr Gosai! ideal companion for a medical student or junior doctor wanting to learn the basics of psychiatry. It simplifies the very complicated topic of psychiatry, and makes it accessible for people searching for a practical opening into the subject. It is equally good for those who have previously studied the subject matter, but are looking to refresh their memory on the topic.
The narrative style is exceptionally readablevery engaging and indeed entertaining. The photographic illustrations are also a bonus!"

"This book is exactly what it says, it is 'a practical handbook of psychiatry'. A perfect book for mental health practitioners, students, or anyone with an interest in Psychiatry. offers a very readable, 'back to basics' understanding of psychiatric conditions, treatments and that, 'need to know knowledge'. easy to read, 'real-world' book, which quickly becomes a 'the book to go to' when those questions arise about, the 'do's and don'ts of psychiatry'. It isn't at all stuffy or pretentious and doesn't pretend to be any more than it is; 'a must read' I believe the author is about to bring out new UK edition definitely worth a look."

"As someone who's not medical practitioner, this book does a good job of describing different psychiatric issues to me. It's handy in that it's nicely sized and well laid out for an easy read - searching for a particular disorder is a breeze and sample case scenarios help with the mental digestion of the stuff in this book. Clear, easy to understand, most definitely helpful."

"As a 3rd year nursing student I can definitely recommend this book it's a easy read and is exactly what is says on the tin great little handy guide for any nursing student"

"As a medical student beginning to study psychiatry, I have come across no other book which delivers learning in such a clear and concise manner. Would definitely recommend!"

If you wish to learn (simply) what Consultants look for when assessing cases, this is possibly one of the easiest guides out there that will help you unlock the secrets of Psychiatry.

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