A Short Textbook Of Psychiatry

The book A Short Textbook of Psychiatry gives comprehensive information about psychiatric disorders, treatment, and all its allied aspects in a reachable manner. This book contains 21 chapters with significant updates. It serves as a guide to postgraduate psychiatry students, nursing students, psychology and psychiatric social work students, occupational therapy and physiotherapy students, general medical practitioners, physicians, and health professionals in India and other countries. The first two chapters discuss diagnosis and classification in psychiatry, the history of psychiatry, and examination. Further chapters cover various disorders such as organic mental disorders, psychoactive substance use, schizophrenia, mood disorders, neurotic, stress-related and somatoform disorders, adult personality and behavioral disorders, sexual disorders, sleep disorders, eating disorders, and more. The treatments involved in psychiatry are also explained. This book includes a chapter on ethical issues and community psychiatry.