This innovative resource provides a highly visual introduction to the basic principles and practice of psychiatry. Each topic is covered in a single two-page unit to make reference and study uncommonly easy and effective. Abundant full-colour line diagrams, clinical photographs, and MRI images demonstrate essential concepts at a glance.

Concise, double page spread permits rapid review of essential information
Wide range of colour clinical photographs, MRI scans and artwork schematics
Provides practical advice regarding patient care
Covers modern pharmacological treatment of psychiatric disorders
Contains useful 'key point' boxes to highlight essential information

Expanded section on recent advances in psychopharmacology, particularly in the treatment of psychosis
Covers the new Mental Health Act and Mental Capacity Act
Discusses the increasing role of psychotherapy in psychiatric disturbance
Provides a useful summary of the DSM-IV classification alongside that of the ICD-10 to enable fast comparison between the two classification systems
Summarises recent changes in NICE guidelines
Includes a new section on eponymous psychiatric disorders e.g. de Cl rambault's and Cotard s syndromes.