A comprehensive textbook for candidates for postgraduate psychiatry exams, covering both basic sciences and the practice of psychiatry.
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1. Psychiatry, its history and boundaries 2. Functional neuroanatomy 3. Neuropharmacology 4. Clinical psychopharmacology 5. Sociology 6. Psychology 7. Research design, measurement and statistics 8. Genetics 9. Psychiatric interviewing 10. Mental state examination 11. Diagnosis and classification 12. Organic disorders 13. Substance misuse 14. Schizophrenia and related syndromes 15. Mood disorder 16. Paranoid disorder and related syndromes 17. Neuroimaging 18. Neurotic disorders 19. Eating disorders 20. Sexual disorders 21. Normal and abnormal personality 22. Learning disability 23. Psychiatric disorders in childhood and adolescence 24. Old age psychiatry 25. Suicide and deliberate self harm 26. Psychiatry in relation to other areas of medicine 27. The relationship between crime and psychiatry 28. Psychological therapies 29. Evidence-based medicine and psychiatry
