This book is a comprehensive guide to psychiatry for undergraduate medical students. Beginning with an introduction to the field, the next chapters discuss biological sciences, psychosocial sciences, and classification and evaluation. The following sections cover the diagnosis and treatment of numerous psychiatric disorders. The book concludes with discussion on psychopharmacology and psychotherapies, legal and ethical issues, community and preventive psychiatry, and the history and future of the field.
P K Singh MD
Professor and Head, Department of Psychiatry, Patna Medical College, Patna, Bihar, India
Om Prakash Singh MD MAMS FIPS FIAGMH
Associate Professor Department of Psychiatry, Institute of Human Behaviour and Allied Sciences (IHBAS), New Delhi, India
Vinay Kumar MD
Consultant Psychiatrist, Manoveda Mind Hospital and Research Centre, Patna, Bihar, India