Table of Contents

1: Thinking about psychiatry
2: Psychiatric assessment
3: Symptoms of psychiatric illness
4: Evidence-based psychiatry
5: Organic illness
6: Schizophrenia and related psychoses
7: Depressive illness
8: Bipolar illness
9: Anxiety and stress-related disorders
10: Eating and impulse-control disorders
11: Sleep disorders
12: Sexual disorders
13: Personality disorders
14: Old age psychiatry
15: Substance misuse
16: Child and adolescent psychiatry
17: Forensic psychiatry
18: Learning disability
19: Liaison psychiatry
20: Psychotherapy
21: Legal issues
22: Transcultural psychiatry
23: Therapeutic issues
24: Difficult and urgent situations
25: Useful resources
26: ICD-10/DSM-IV index

Promotional Information

Highly Commended in the Psychiatry category of the BMA Book Awards 2014.

About the Author

Dr David Semple was born and educated in Coleraine, Northern Ireland, studying Medicine at the University of Edinburgh from 1987-1992. He trained in Psychiatry in the Borders/South East Scotland during which time he conducted research funded by Wellcome into the long-term effects of ecstasy. During his time as a Lecturer/Specialist Registrar based at the Royal Edinburgh Hospital/University of Edinburgh he wrote the first edition of the Oxford Handbook of Psychiatry
with a group of friends including close collaborator Dr Roger Smyth. Dr Semple was appointed to his current post as a Consultant General Adult Psychiatrist at Hairmyres Hospital in 2004.


Dr Roger Smyth was born and educated in Belfast, Northern Ireland and came to Scotland to study Medicine at the University of Edinburgh. He trained in Psychiatry in South East Scotland. Together with a group of friends and colleagues he wrote the first edition of the Oxford Handbook of Psychiatry. Dr Smyth took up his first Consultant Psychiatrist post in St John's Hospital, Livingston in 2004, and moved to the Department of Psychological Medicine at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh in 2006 to
specialise in Liaison Psychiatry.

Reviews

`Review from previous edition ...this book is a solid contender in a sea of similar handbooks, and readers will find that its periodic British nomenclature does not compromise its applicability to American Psychiatry...
...the Oxford Handbook of Psychiatry offers a more impressive breadth of evidence-based material and will undoubtedly be a resource found in the pockets of many practitioners.'
Portable Psychiatry: Praise and Aspirations for the Oxford Handbook, American Psychological Association, by Michelle Braun
`Enjoyable, concise, relevant, accesible information, clear, logical, essential reading for anyone in mental health, highly recommended!'
Reader review, Philip Cowin