Basic Notes in Psychiatry

Dr Michael I Levi MB BS MRCPsych, Consultant Psychiatrist Bradford District Care Trust Horton Park Centre Bradford, West Yorkshire, UK.

• The history. The mental state examination. The formulation. The symptoms and signs of mental illness. Personality disorders. Anxiety disorders: generalised anxiety disorder. Panic disorder. Phobic anxiety disorders. Obsessive compulsive disorders. Post-traumatic stress disorder. Dissociative (conversion) disorders. Hypochondriacal disorders. Adjustment disorder. Delusional disorders. Affective disorders. Schizophrenia. Organic disorders. Eating disorders: anorexia nervosa. Bulimia nervosa. Alcohol dependence. Drug dependence. Psychiatric emergencies.

"'There are a great many books and journal papers that the stressed candidate will be required to read and understand before, at last, going forward into that ultimate right of passage, namely the Membership Examination of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. Now all your exhausting revision work has been finally completed, I commend you to this excellent revision guide; a vital revision aid which will remind you of all you have already learned, and will help you put all this information into a logical order. It should help to ease your passage through the examination and give you a smooth landing on the other side. It has helped a great many of your colleagues who have gone before, and I hope it will do the same for you - the best of luck.' Simon Baugh, in the Foreword"