IPS Textbook of Undergraduate Psychiatry

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, including schizophrenia, depression, bipolar and other mood disorders, OCD, sleep disorders, eating disorders, and many more.

All sectors of the population are covered, from children and adolescents, to geriatrics, and a complete chapter is dedicated to culture bound syndromes (a combination of psychiatric and somatic symptoms that are considered to be a recognisable disease only within a specific society or culture).

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.

Key points

• Practical guide to psychiatry for undergraduate medical students
• Covers diagnosis and treatment of numerous disorders
• Complete chapter dedicated to culture bound syndromes
• Includes discussion on legal and ethical issues, and preventive psychiatry

1. Nature of Mind - Real or Virtual
2. Basic Biological Sciences for Psychiatry
3. Basic Psychosocial Sciences for Psychiatry
4. Mental Health and Mental Disorders
5. Classification and Clinical Evaluation
6. Communications Skills for Effective Medicare
7. Organic Brain Syndromes
8. Substance Related Disorders
9. Schizophrenia and other Psychotic Disorders
10. Depressive Disorders
11. Bipolar and other Mood Disorders
12. Anxiety, Phobic and related Disorders
13. OCD Spectrum Disorders
14. Somatoform and Dissociative Disorders
15. Adjustment and Stress related Disorders
16. Sexual and Gender Identity Disorders
17. Sleep Disorders
18. Eating Disorders
19. Personality Disorders
20. Childhood and Adolescent Disorders
21. Disorders of Intellectual Development
22. Geriatric Mental Health
23. Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry
24. Suicide and Psychiatric Emergencies
25. Culture Bound Syndromes
26. Miscellaneous Syndromes of Clinical Interest
27. Legal and Ethical issues in Psychiatry
28. Psychopharmacology and Physical Methods
29. Psychotherapies
30. Community and Preventive Psychiatry
31. History of Psychiatry
32. Future of Psychiatry

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