Psychiatry for Medic Students

Waldinger, Robert J.

ISBN 10: 0880480033 ISBN 13: 9780880480031

Publisher: American Psychiatric Press, 1986

Synopsis

This work is intended as a valuable resource not just for medical students, but for anyone entering the mental health care field. The clear and readable text is for nurses, social workers, psychologists and medical students who are taking a first course in psychiatry or doing a first clinical clerkship, and others trying to make sense of their first encounters with people who are emotionally disturbed. The book presents the basic facts without jargon and provides an introduction to topics such as schizophrenia, electroconvulsive therapy, transference, and tranquilizers. The chapters can be read and referred to quickly making it a useful resource for busy students who are in the midst of a clinical rotation. It is also a companion to a first course in psychopathology. Throughout this book, the author helps students to focus on themselves as well as on their patients. Section 1 is designed to offer basic skills with which to approach the diagnostic evaluation. Section II includes the syndromes students will most likely encounter while working in outpatient and inpatient mental health facilities.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

For medical students taking their first course in psychiatry or entering their first clinical clerkship, their early encounters with psychiatric patients and their need to master vast amounts of new information on complicated illnesses can be a bewildering, grueling, and intimidating experience. Fortunately, these newcomers have a reliable and trusted source that makes psychiatry more accessible to them. Widely used in medical schools and allied mental health curricula, the third edition of Psychiatry for Medical Students is the standard against which all psychiatric texts for beginning medical students are measured. This popular book gives medical students, primary care physicians, nurses, social workers, and psychologists a jargon-free introduction to the basics, including topics such as schizophrenia, electroconvulsive therapy, transference, and tranquilizers. The text also helps the reader develop the basic skills needed to carry out a diagnostic evaluation and provides systematic coverage of common psychiatric disorders, groups of patients, specialized psychiatric fields, special problems encountered among patients with a broad range of psychiatric conditions, and psychotherapies and somatic therapies. This updated edition incorporates the changes in DSM-IV and contains discussions of recent developments throughout the field. Filled with new references and the latest research, this book can be used as a quick reference during clinical work and a starting point for further reading.

About the Author:

Robert J. Waldinger, M.D., is Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard University Medical School, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

About this edition

• Publisher: American Psychiatric Press
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0880480033
• ISBN 13: 9780880480031
• Binding: Microfilm
• Number of pages: 423