Lecture notes on psychiatry - Softcover

James H. Willis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 063208880X ISBN 13: 9780632088805

Publisher: Blackwell Science Ltd

Synopsis

Univ. of Oxford, UK. A synopsis for medical students. Provides an evidence-based approach and integrates the three elements of biology, psychology, and sociology. Previous edition, c1989, by James Willis. Trim 9 x 6 inches. Modified-outline format. Halftone illustrations. Each chapter includes key points. Softcover. Psychiatry handbooks.

About this title

About the Author

Professor Paul Harrison, FRC Psych, Professor Paul Geddes, FRC Psych, and Dr Michael Sharpe, MRC Psych, are all experienced teachers in psychiatry and psychological medicine. Professors Harrison and Geddes are both based at the Warneford Hospital in Oxford where they teach the psychiatry attachment for medical students at Oxford University, and Dr Sharpe is Reader in Psychological Medicine at the University of Edinburgh.

Review

"...I found this book useful because of its relative simplicity: I was able to use it to understand the core course content in its simplest terms without getting lost in the enormousness of the speciality."

Barts and The London

Student prereview quotes:

"...an essential read for medical students and mental health trainees."

"...concise, readable...altogether a much better read than the usual dense texts of psychiatry."

"...the chapter on the clinical appraisal of patients is excellent. I will use it in exams as well as in the clinic."

Edition details

• Publisher: Blackwell Science Ltd
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 063208880X
• ISBN 13: 9780632088805
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3