The Psychiatry and Medical Psychology Department of the Medical University of Varna “Prof. Dr. P. Stoyanov” presents the translated edition of the book Psychiatry by Prof. Saxby Pridmor.
The preface of the book is written by Prof. Dr. Rinaldo Shishkov – Head of the Psychiatry and Medical Psychology Department. The Bulgarian version of this well-known textbook has been published with the courtesy and assistance of its author prof. Saxby Pridmor for which we express our immense gratitude. Assoc. P. Marinov and Dr. S. Ralovsky have also done good work in terms of translation and editing of the textbook.
It is aimed at specialists psychiatrists, doctors, specializing in psychiatry, and students of medicine.
Free online access to a PDF file with the full text of the book translated in Bulgarian is available HERE!
Table of contents:
- Introduction
- Hardware
- Classification of mental disorders
- Delusions and delusional disorders
- Hallucinations
- Form of thought
- Schizophrenia
- Sadness and depression
- Mood elevation disorders
- Personality and personality disorder
- Post-traumatic stress disorder
- Substance abuse disorders
- Obsessive-compulsive disorder
- Eating disorders
- Antipsychotic drugs
- Antidepressant drugs
- Anti-anxiety drugs
- Mood stabilizers
- Fear and anxiety
- Senescence and dementia
- Delirium
- Somatization
- Factitious disorder and malingering
- Child psychiatry
- Forensic psychiatry
- Higher cortical functions
- Frontal lobes – besides tests
- Electroconvulsive therapy
- Transcranial magnetic stimulation
- Tests: psychiatric, neurological, psychological
A short list of the used literature sources is added at the end of each chapter.