Lange Q&A Psychiatry, Ninth Edition

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McGraw Hill Professional, Mar 30, 2007 - Medical - 312 pages
  • Build confidence with 750 USMLE-format questions for the psychiatry clerkship
  • Provides substantial explanations for why answers are either correct or wrong
  • Confirm understanding of topics such as psychiatric emergencies, addictions, eating disorders, dementia and psychopharmacology
  • Understand treatments based on current recommendations for mental illnesses such as bipolar, depression, ADHD and more
 

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Contents

1 Psychological Testing
1
2 Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
13
3 Adult Psychopathology
41
4 Somatic Treatment and Psychopharmacology
85
5 Psychological Treatment and Management
123
6 Legal and Ethical Issues in Psychiatry and Medicine
141
7 Differential Diagnosis and Management
161
8 Practice Test 1
195
9 Practice Test 2
229
Bibliography
263
Index
265
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About the author (2007)

Ivan Oransky, MD is the deputy editor of The Scientist. He has served as editor-in-chief of Pulse, the medical student section of the Journal of American Medical Association (JAMA) and of Praxis Post. Author or co-author of several books, including The Common Symptom Answer Guide (McGraw-Hill, 2004) and three previous editions of Lange Q&A Psychiatry, he has written for publications including the Baltimore Sun, Boston Globe, Fitness, The Forward, The Lancet, The New Republic, The New York Sun, Salon, Slate, U.S. News and World Report, and USA Today, and has served as an editor at Reuters Health information. He received his BA at Harvard and his MD from NYU, and completed an internship at Yale. In 2002, he was elected to the board of directors of the Association of Health Care Journalists.

Sean Blitzstein, MD is Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Chicago in Chicago Illinois.

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