Oxford Handbook of Psychiatry

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Covering psychiatry from A to Z this book is indeed an essential for every student, trainee and even the experienced psychiatrist. Subjects ranging from the arcane to the obvious leap out with clarity. The authors’ style is concise yet inspiring.
Theoretical aspects from psychoanalysis to the dopamine hypothesis are covered with attention to ‘real-world’ psychiatric applications. This text succeeds where others have failed in terms of ease of use and being pocket-sized!
If you’re a foundation year trainee-in-waiting then don’t hesitate to get in line for this essential ‘road-map’ for your psychiatric post. As someone who is about to sit their membership I have already found it invaluable.
Highly recommended! 

I recently bought this book for starting a block working in psychiatry. On my first meeting with my consultant he was about to advise me to buy this book when I showed him I had already bought it-his feeling is that this book would be sufficient for anyone (such as myself) who is new to psychiatry and will be working there for a short term (eg 4 months/6months) and covers all the neccesary topics. Obviously if you were to have a specialist interest in a specific condition or be in a subspeciality of psychiatry then worth checking what your department would suggest however if you’re going to general psychiatry or doing oncalls there this should do the trick. It’s also quite an interesting read. Covering psychiatry from A to Z this book is indeed an essential for every student, trainee and even the experienced psychiatrist. Subjects ranging from the arcane to the obvious leap out with clarity. The authors’ style is concise yet inspiring.
Theoretical aspects from psychoanalysis to the dopamine hypothesis are covered with attention to ‘real-world’ psychiatric applications. This text succeeds where others have failed in terms of ease of use and being pocket-sized!
If you’re a foundation year trainee-in-waiting then don’t hesitate to get in line for this essential ‘road-map’ for your psychiatric post. As someone who is about to sit their membership I have already found it invaluable.
Highly recommended! 

I recently bought this book for starting a block working in psychiatry. On my first meeting with my consultant he was about to advise me to buy this book when I showed him I had already bought it-his feeling is that this book would be sufficient for anyone (such as myself) who is new to psychiatry and will be working there for a short term (eg 4 months/6months) and covers all the neccesary topics. Obviously if you were to have a specialist interest in a specific condition or be in a subspeciality of psychiatry then worth checking what your department would suggest however if you’re going to general psychiatry or doing oncalls there this should do the trick. It’s also quite an interesting read.

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