Book contents
- Introduction to Psychiatry
- Introduction to Psychiatry
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Clinical Neuroscience
- 3 Introduction to the Patient Interview
- 4 Mood Disorders
- 5 Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic Disorders
- 6 Anxiety Disorders
- 7 Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders
- 8 Disorders Related to Stress and Trauma
- 9 Substance Use Disorders
- 10 Personality Disorders
- 11 Neurocognitive Disorders
- 12 Feeding and Eating Disorders
- 13 Child Psychiatry and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
- 14 Sleep Disorders
- 15 Psychopharmacology and Neurotherapeutics
- 16 Psychosocial Interventions
- 17 Psychiatric Evaluation in the Medical Setting
- 18 Psychiatry of Gender and Sexuality
- 19 Health Policy and Population Health in Behavioral Health Care in the United States
- 20 Global Health and Mental Health Care Delivery in Low-Resource Settings
- Index
- References
1 - Introduction
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 July 2021
- Introduction to Psychiatry
- Introduction to Psychiatry
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Clinical Neuroscience
- 3 Introduction to the Patient Interview
- 4 Mood Disorders
- 5 Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic Disorders
- 6 Anxiety Disorders
- 7 Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders
- 8 Disorders Related to Stress and Trauma
- 9 Substance Use Disorders
- 10 Personality Disorders
- 11 Neurocognitive Disorders
- 12 Feeding and Eating Disorders
- 13 Child Psychiatry and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
- 14 Sleep Disorders
- 15 Psychopharmacology and Neurotherapeutics
- 16 Psychosocial Interventions
- 17 Psychiatric Evaluation in the Medical Setting
- 18 Psychiatry of Gender and Sexuality
- 19 Health Policy and Population Health in Behavioral Health Care in the United States
- 20 Global Health and Mental Health Care Delivery in Low-Resource Settings
- Index
- References
Summary
The first edition of Introduction to Psychiatry is a textbook designed to reach medical students, house staff, primary care clinicians, and early-career mental health practitioners. It is the editors’ hope that this text will enable its readers to understand the neuroscientific basis of psychiatry, best practices in the psychiatric assessment and treatment of the patient, the current understanding of core psychiatric diagnoses, and the important underlying issues of population health, public policy, and workforce recruitment and training that must be tackled to bring these advances to all.
Why create a textbook of psychiatry specifically for clinicians not trained for the mental health field? To answer this question, one must understand the troubling challenges facing the mental health workforce, the changing face of mental health care delivery, the enormous comorbidity between psychiatric illnesses and other health conditions, and the impact on non-psychiatric medical illnesses when a comorbid psychiatric disorder is present.
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- Introduction to PsychiatryPreclinical Foundations and Clinical Essentials, pp. 1 - 8Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021