Fundamentals of Clinical Psychiatry: A Practical Handbook

List of contributors
Foreword
Preface Marsal Sanches and Jair C. Soares
1. Introduction Marsal Sanches and Jair C. Soares
2. The psychiatric interview Dean J. Atkinson and Amanda Helminiak
3. Psychopathology and the mental status examination Marsal Sanches
4. Classifications and the diagnostic process in psychiatry Marcelo Bruno Generoso and Marsal Sanches
5. Neurobiology of mental disorders Karen Horn, Anita Barrera, Abdul Haseeb and Rodrigo Machado-Vieira
6. Psychosocial theories and their implication for psychiatry Claudia Lex and Thomas D. Meyer
7. General aspects of psychopharmacology Grace S. Pham and Sanjay J. Mathew
8. Neurostimulation treatments Luis A. Wische-Fernandez and Salih Selek
9. Ethico-legal considerations in psychiatry Edward Poe
10. Transcultural aspects of mental health care Syed Shahzeb Ayaz and Ali Abbas Asghar-Ali
11. Child and adolescent psychiatry Cristian Patrick Zeni and Priscilla Granja Machado
12. Principles of geriatric sychiatry Antonio L Teixeira and Jennifer R. Gatchel
13. Reproductive psychiatry Julia N. Riddle, Margo Nathan, Riah Patterson and Anne Ruminjo
14. Psychomotor agitation Olusegun Adebisi Popoola and Nidal MoukaddamI
15. The suicidal patient Ryan E Lawrence
16. Depressive disorders Carolina Olmos and Joao Quevedo
17. Bipolar disorders Marsal Sanches and Jair C. Soares
18. Psychotic disorders Olaoluwa Okusaga and Gabriela Austgen
19. Anxiety disorders Grace Kim, Vaishali Tirumalaraju and Sudhakar Selvaraj
20. Obsessive-compulsive disorder Jordan T. Stiede, Emily R. Strouphauer, Erika S. Trent, Sameer A. Sheth, Nisha Giridharan, Wayne K. Goodman, Andrew D. Wiese and Eric A. Storch
21. Post-traumatic stress disorder: an update on diagnosis, etiology, and treatment John M. Bouras
22. Borderline personality disorder Marcos S. Croci, Marcelo J. A. A. Brañas, Steve Conway, Julia Jurist and Lois W. Choi-Kain
23. Antisocial personality disorder Morgan T. Deal and Juan J. Sosa
24. Other personality disorders Maria Carolina Pedalino Pinheiro and Carolina Olmos
25. Eating disorders Carrie J. McAdams
26. Alcohol use disorder Michael Weaver and Heather Webber
27. Other substance use disorders Thanh Thuy Truong
28. Autistic spectrum disorders Taiwo T. Babatope, Antonio F. Pagán, Caroline W. McCool, Natalie R. Parks, Nermin Koch, Laura M. Welch and Parnaz Daghighi
29. Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) Cesar A. Sotullo
30. Delirium and other medical conditions presenting with psychiatric symptoms Silvia Hafliger
31. Dementia Jeffrey McBride and Lokesh Shahani
32. Psychiatric care of the medical patient: neuroleptic malignant syndrome and serotonin syndrome Lindsey S. Pershern and Robert J Boland
Appendix
Index.