Modern clinical psychiatry

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Kolb, Lawrence Coleman, 1911- (autor)
Otros Autores: Brodie, H. Keith H. 1939-2016 (autor)
Formato: Libro
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Philadelphia : Saunders, ©1982
Edición:Tenth edition.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The beginnings of psychiatry.
  • Development of modern psychiatry.
  • The brain and behavior.
  • Personality development.
  • Adaptive processes and mental mechanisms.
  • Psychopathology.
  • Presisposing and precipitating factors for mental disorder.
  • Examination of the patient.
  • Disorders caused by or associated with impairment of brain tissue function.
  • Primary degenerative dementia.
  • Brain syndromes associated with cerebral arteriosclerosis and other cerebrovascular disorders.
  • Brain syndromes associated with infection.
  • Brain syndromes associated with convulsive disorders (epilepsy).
  • Brain syndromes associated with intracranial neoplasm.
  • Mental disorders caused by or associated with head trauma.
  • Brain syndromes associated with endocrine, metabolic, nutritional, and toxic disturbances.
  • Chronic brain syndromes associated with diseases of unknown or uncertain cause.
  • Schizophrenic disorders.
  • Affective disorders.
  • Paranoid psychoses.
  • Other psychotic disorders.
  • The neuroses.
  • Psychosexual disorders.
  • Psychological factors affecting physical condition.
  • Personality disorders.
  • Alcoholic psychoses and alcoholism.
  • Drug dependence.
  • Disorders usually first evident in infancy, childhood, and adolescence.
  • Mental retardation.
  • Psychotherapy.
  • Social and community psychiatry.
  • Pharmacological therapy.
  • Shock and other physical therapies.
  • Psychiatry and the law.