A comprehensive textbook for candidates for postgraduate psychiatry exams, covering both basic sciences and the practice of psychiatry.Offers a new, more economical soft-cover format. Features more concise paragraphs and summary boxes for easier reference. Reintroduces chapters on psychology and sociology that were left out of the last edition, providing a useful summary of these important components of the psychiatric knowledge base. Provides an increased emphasis on evidence-based medicine. Covers basic sciences such as functional neuroanatomy and genetics as well as the diagnosis and treatment of a full range of psychiatric disorders.Paperback binding and lower price make the book more affordable to trainees.Shorter paragraphs and summary boxes make the text more accessible and easier to learn from.Reintroduction of chapters on psychology and sociology dropped from last edition, providing a useful summary of an important part of the exam syllabus.New chapters on neuropathology, neuropsychology, perinatal psychiatry and disorders of sleep and wakefulness.Contents will be in accordance with the soon to be published curriculum for the MRCPsych.
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