Modern clinical psychiatry / Lawrence C. Kolb.

Contents

1.The beginnings of psychiatry
2.Development of modern psychiatry
3.The brain and behavior
4.Personality development
5.Adaptive processes and mental mechanisms
6.Psychopathology
7.Predisposing and precipitating factors for mental disorder
8.Examination of the patient
9.Disorders caused by or associated with impairment of brain tissue function
10.Primary degenerative dementia
11.Brian syndromes associated with cerebral arteriosclerosis and other cerebrovascular disorders
12.Brain syndromes associated with infection
13.Brain syndromes associated with convulsive disorders (epilepsy)
14.Brain syndrome associated with intracranial neoplasm
15.Mental disorders caused by or associated with head trauma
16.Brain syndromes associated with endocrine, metabolic, nutritional, and toxic disturbances
17.Chronic brain syndromes associated with diseases of unknown or uncertain cause
18. Chronic brain syndromes associated with diseases of unknown or certain cause
19.Schizophrenic disorders
20.Affective disorders
21.Paranoid psychoses
22.The neuroses
23.Psychological factors affecting physical condition
24.Personality disorders
25.Alcoholic psychoses and alcoholism
26.Drug dependence
27. Behaviour disorders of childhood and adolescence
28.Special symptoms
29.Mental retardation
30.Psychotherapy
31.Social and community psychiatry
32.Pharmacological therapy
33.Shock and other physical therapies
34.Psychiatry and the law.

Includes bibliographies and index.