Oxford Handbook of Psychiatry / Edition 4

by David Semple, Roger Smyth

Overview

This new fourth edition of the Oxford Handbook of Psychiatry is the essential, evidence-based companion to all aspects of psychiatry, from diagnosis and conducting a clinical interview to management by subspecialty. Fully updated to reflect changes to the legislature and classification of psychiatric disorders, and with coverage of the anticipated ICD-11 coding, this Handbook provides the latest advances in both clinical practice and management today.

As in previous editions, the Handbook is indexed alphabetically by ICD-10 and DSM-5 codes,as well as a list of acute presentations for quick access in emergency situations. The practical layout helps the reader in making clinical diagnosis, and suggested differential diagnosis makes this title an invaluable guide to provide reassurance to health professionals when dealing with psychiatric issues.

With a new chapter on Neuropsychiatry and a re-written section on gender dysphoria to reflect the biological and cultural developments in understanding and research since the previous edition, and filled with clinical observations, guidance, and commentary that reflects the authors' practical experiences of working in psychiatry, this Handbook is the indispensable guide for all trainee and practising psychiatrists.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198795551
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	09/24/2019
Series:	Oxford Medical Handbooks
Edition description:	4th ed.
Pages:	1200
Sales rank:	1,150,134
Product dimensions:	7.10(w) x 4.10(h) x 1.70(d)

About the Author

David Semple, Consultant Psychiatrist, University Hospital Hairmyres, East Kilbride, and Honorary Fellow, Division of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, UK,,Roger Smyth, Consultant Psychiatrist, Department of Psychological Medicine, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, and Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer, Division of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, UK

Dr Semple graduated in Medicine from Edinburgh University in 1992 and worked in the Neurosciences Department at Dundee Royal Infirmary before starting Psychiatry training on the Lothian Training Scheme. Subsequently he obtained a Wellcome Research Fellowship and afterwards was appointed as a Lecturer in Psychiatry and Honorary Specialist Registrar based at the Royal Edinburgh Hospital. During that time he co-wrote the first edition of the Oxford Handbook of Psychiatry, a text he continues to co-write and co-edit with Dr Roger Smyth. Currently working as a Consultant in General Adult Psychiatry at University Hospital Hairmyres, East Kilbride and an Honorary Fellow of the Division of Psychiatry at Edinburgh, he continues to pursue his clinical and research interests in the areas of neuropsychopharmacology, the management of mood disorders, ECT, disorders of sleep and wakefulness, hallucinations, and psychosis. He was elected to Fellowship of the Royal College of Psychiatrists in 2016.

Dr Roger Smyth was born and educated in Belfast, Northern Ireland and came to Scotland to study Medicine at the University of Edinburgh. He trained in Psychiatry in South East Scotland. Together with a group of friends and colleagues he wrote the first edition of the Oxford Handbook of Psychiatry. Dr Smyth took up his first Consultant Psychiatrist post in St John's Hospital, Livingston in 2004, and moved to the Department of Psychological Medicine at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh in 2006 to specialise in Liaison Psychiatry.

Table of Contents

1. Thinking about psychiatry2. Psychiatric assessment3. Symptoms of psychiatric illness4. Neuropsychiatry5. Schizophrenia and related psychoses6. Depressive illness7. Bipolar illness8. Anxiety and stress-related disorders9. Eating and impulse-control disorders10. Sleep-wake disorders11. Reproductive psychiatry, sexual health, and gender related issues12. Personality disorders13. Old age psychiatry14. Substance misuse15. Child and adolescent psychiatry16. Forensic psychiatry17. Intellectual disability18. Liaison psychiatry19. Psychotherapy20. Legal issues21. Transcultural psychiatry22. Therapeutic issues23. Difficult and urgent situations24. Useful resources25. ICD-10/DSM-5 index

Editorial Reviews

Reviewer: Tara A Gallagher, MD (Pine Rest Christian Mental Health Services)
Description: This book provides an overview of clinical psychiatry in a pocket handbook format. It is based off its predecessor, Oxford Handbook of Internal Medicine, 10th edition, Wilkinson et al. (Oxford University Press, 2017), adapted to be focused on psychiatry. This is the fourth edition, last published in 2012.
Purpose: The purpose is to serve as a reference guide for the practice of psychiatry. The book does a particularly good job focusing on the diagnosis of mental illnesses.
Audience: This book is best utilized by fourth year medical students on audition rotations in psychiatry, and psychiatry residents. It may also benefit early career attending psychiatrists and would be a good reference for family medicine or internal medicine physicians who have a special interest in psychiatry and need a refresher on pathologies less commonly seen. The Oxford Medical Handbooks series is well known and a reputable name in medicine.
Features: This book is divided into sections based on disease category. The structure of how different diagnoses fall into these sections resembles that of DSM-5. Each disease section addresses diagnostic symptoms, etiology, prognosis, and treatment. This edition includes new sections on neuropsychiatry, legislation, and historical context of psychiatry.
Assessment: This book is a great guide for early career psychiatrists, such as psychiatry residents and fourth year medical students. It is particularly helpful in explaining how to properly diagnose diseases, beyond simply using DSM-5 criteria. Additionally, I appreciate how this book presents treatment as part of the disease type, and how to appropriately determine which treatment strategy to pursue. One weakness is the book's lack of depth in its explanation of medications. To fully understand how to properly prescribe psychiatric medications, such as titration and tapering schedules, it would be necessary to utilize an additional book such as Stahl's Essential Psychopharmacology: Neuroscientific Basis and Practical Applications, 4th edition, Stahl (Cambridge University Press, 2013). Further editions should include newer antipsychotics such as brexpiprazole and ziprasidone. Readers located outside the UK should understand that this book primarily serves UK physicians. Overall, I would recommend this book as it can help strengthen diagnostic skills and build a solid foundation for understanding different illnesses in psychiatry.

Doody's Review Service

"If you could afford only one psychiatry book, this is it! The wealth of useful/practical information that this little book contains (and that could fit into your white coat pocket) is remarkable." —Doody's

"This is a splendid little (perhaps not so little) handbook with much to recommend it. It is intended for medical students, residents, and early career psychiatrists, but is also a useful reference for any clinician wanting easy access to an abundance of practical clinical information. It lives up to the description on the cover of providing 'hands-on advice for managing psychiatric conditions'...Considerable thought and effort have been put into this handbook."—Journal of Clinical Psychiatry

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