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• Psychiatry
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Dedication
• Preface to the second edition
• Preface to the first edition
• Acknowledgements
• Part 1: Concepts in Psychiatry
• Chapter 1. Definitions
• What is Psychiatry?
• Detection
• Who is a Psychiatrist?
• Terminology—Madness and the Mind
• Further Reading
• Questions
• Chapter 2. General Concepts
• Health Service
• Type of Hospital Cases
• Community Care
• Out-patient Referrals
• Normality: What is It?
• Abnormalities in a Normal Curve of Distribution
• Personality—Normal Ranges
• Intelligence
• Mental Retardation—Amentia v. Dementia
• Community
• Limitations
• Further Reading
• Questions
• Chapter 3. Hospital Admission under the Mental Health Act 1983
• Reasons for Admission
• The Mental Health Act 1983
• Further Reading
• Questions
• Chapter 4. History of Psychiatry
• Early Acts
• The Mental Health Act 1959
• The Mental Health Act 1983
• Diagnostic Criteria
• The Psychoses
• Drug Therapy
• The Major Tranquillisers
• Anti-depressants
• Psychotherapy
• Further Reading
• Questions
• Chapter 5. Causation
• Labelling
• Aetiological Factors
• Research into Schizophrenia
• Research into Affective Illness
• Research into Neuroses
• Personality Disorders—Environmental Influences
• Further Reading
• Questions
• Chapter 6. Treatment
• General Concepts
• In-patient or Out-patient?
• Drug Therapy or Medication
• Anxiolytics
• Anti-depressants
• Neuroleptics
• Physical Methods of Treatment
• Relaxation Techniques
• Psychotherapy
• Behaviour Therapy
• Further Reading
• Questions
• Chapter 7. Psychotherapy
• Types of Psychotherapy
• Transference
• Individual Psychotherapy
• Group Therapy
• Psychodrama
• Gestalt Therapy
• Bioenergetics
• Transactional Analysis
• Cognitive Therapy
• Family Therapy
• Behavioural Psychotherapy
• Further Reading
• Questions
• Chapter 8. Electroplexy
• The Nature of Electroplexy
• Insulin Coma Therapy
• Effects of Electroplexy
• Evidence of Effectiveness
• Research and Efficacy
• Mode of Action
• Hazards
• Anaesthetic Risks
• Dangers of Withholding Treatment
• Further Reading
• Questions
• Chapter 9. Relationship of Psychiatry with Other Disciplines (‘Liaison Psychiatry’)
• General Practice
• Neurology
• Psychology
• Sociology
• Biochemistry
• Pharmacology
• Statistics
• Neurosurgery (Leucotomy)
• Further Reading
• Questions
• Part 2: Psychiatric Syndromes
• Chapter 10. Conditions Where Disorder of Thought Predominates
• Summary
• Description
• Incidence and Causation
• Biochemical Disturbance
• Epidemiology
• Symptom Patterns
• Hebephrenia
• Hallucinations
• Other Symptoms
• Simple Schizophrenia
• Catatonia
• Paranoid Schizophrenia
• Paraphrenia
• Paranoia
• Residual Schizophrenia
• Treatment
• Rehabilitation
• Prognosis
• Further Reading
• Questions
• Chapter 11. Conditions Where Disorder of Affect Predominates
• Summary
• Description
• Suicide
• Unipolar Affective Psychosis
• Treatment
• Bipolar Affective Psychosis
• Puerperal Psychosis
• Mania and Hypomania
• Aggression and Aggressive Psychosis
• Further Reading
• Questions
• Chapter 12. Affective Disorders: The Neuroses
• Summary
• Description
• Symptoms
• Pervasive Anxiety
• Phobic States
• Obsessional Compulsive Neuroses
• Neurotic Depression
• Depersonalisation
• Hysteria
• Parasympathetic Over-activity
• Differential Diagnosis
• Treatment
• Further Reading
• Questions
• Chapter 13. Psychosomatic Disorders
• Summary
• Classification
• The Autonomic Nervous System
• Gastro-intestinal System
• Respiratory System
• Cardiovascular System
• The Skin
• Musculo-skeletal System
• Genito-urinary System
• Metabolic and Endocrine Disorders
• Somato-psychic Disorders
• Further Reading
• Questions
• Chapter 14. Disorders of Personality and Behaviour
• Summary
• Classification
• Distortions of Personality Development
• Addictions
• Sexual Behavioural Anomalies
• Psychopathy
• Other Personality Problems
• The Adolescent Personality Disorder
• Further Reading
• Questions
• Chapter 15. Alcoholism and Drug Addiction
• Summary
• Alcoholism
• Delirium Tremens
• Wernicke’s Encephalopathy
• Korsakoff’s Psychosis
• Treatment for Alcoholism
• Drug Addiction
• Treatment for Drug Addiction
• Further Reading
• Questions
• Chapter 16. The Elderly Mentally Infirm
• Summary
• Description
• Patients Who Have Grown Old in Hospitals for the Mentally III
• Elderly Persons with Functional Mental Illness
• Elderly Persons with Dementia
• Conclusions
• Further Reading
• Questions
• Chapter 17. Disorders of Intellectual Function
• Summary
• Description
• Patterns of Diseases
• Symptoms
• Organic Psychoses
• Delirium
• Dementia
• Senile Dementia
• Arteriosclerotic Dementia
• Pre-senile Dementias
• GPI (General Paralysis of the Insane)
• Epilepsy
• Withdrawal Fits
• Tumours
• Head Injury
• Organic Psychoses
• Encephalitis
• Thyroid Disease
• Hypoglycaemia
• Myalgic Encephalomyelopathy
• Pernicious Anaemia
• Bromide Intoxication
• Lead and Mercury Poisoning
• Investigation and Treatment
• Further Reading
• Questions
• Chapter 18. Psycho-Sexual Disorders: Partnership Dysharmonies
• Summary
• Description
• Male and Female Problems
• Mechanism of Arousal
• Erective and Arousal Failure
• Orgasmic Dysfunction
• Ejaculatory Disorders
• Vaginismus
• Management of Partnership Dysfunctions
• Treatment Programmes
• Medication
• Sexual Aids
• Further Reading
• Questions
• Chapter 19. Psycho-Sexual Disorders: Sexual Behavioural Anomalies
• Summary
• Description
• Homosexuality
• Paedophilia
• Fetishism
• Transvestism
• Trans-sexualism
• Exhibitionism and Voyeurism
• Sado-masochism
• Treatment
• Aversion Therapy
• Sex Change Operations
• Further Reading
• Questions
• Chapter 20. Child Psychiatry
• Summary
• Description
• Deprivation and Disrupted Relationships
• Behavioural Disorders
• Childhood Neuroses
• Anorexia Nervosa
• School Phobia
• Tics and the Gilles de la Tourette Syndrome
• Autism
• Hyperkinesis
• Dyslexia
• Psychosis in Children
• Adolescence
• Further Reading
• Questions
• 21 Mental Handicap (Impairment)
• Summary
• Description
• Training Needs
• Legal Aspects of Mental Retardation
• Causation
• Diagnosis
• Treatment
• Individual Syndromes
• Genetic Defects
• Sex-Linked Causes
• Foetal Abnormalities of Developmental Origin
• Environmentally Determined Causes
• Further Reading
• Questions
• 22 Forensic Psychiatry
• Summary
• Description
• Legal Responsibility
• Murder and Manslaughter
• Suicide
• Termination of Pregnancy, Child Destruction and Infanticide
• Mentally Disordered Offenders
• Legislation on Drugs
• Sexual Offences
• The ‘Battered Baby’ Syndrome
• The ‘Battered Wife’ Syndrome
• Child Abuse
• Shoplifting
• Epilepsy
• Further Reading
• Questions
• 23 Future Trends
• The Multidisciplinary Team
• Psychoses
• Psychoneuroses
• The Elderly (Psycho-geriatrics)
• The Personality Disorders
• A New Range of Problems (‘Liaison Psychiatry’)
• Further Reading
• Glossary
• Index