Psychiatry: Clinical Cases Uncovered

How to use this book.

Part 1 Basics.

Approach to the patient.

Mental health treatments.

Part 2 Cases.

Case 1 A 20-year-old student who collapses in the supermarket.

Case 2 A 47-year-old woman who lives in fear that God will punish her.

Case 3 An 18-year-old college drop-out gets an eviction order from his parents.

Case 4 An 18-year-old trainee chef who cannot go to work.

Case 5 Sudden deterioration of a 78-year-old woman in a nursing home.

Case 6 A 72-year-old woman with antisocial behaviour.

Case 7 A 64-year-old retired teacher's depression is getting worse.

Case 8 A 17-year-old man has been cutting his arms.

Case 9 A 9-year-old disruptive child faces expulsion from school.

Case 10 A 48-year-old security guard with new symptoms every day.

Case 11 A 28-year-old man has been arrested at the airport.

Case 12 A 24-year-old new mother in distress.

Case 13 A 15-year-old head prefect with pneumonia is behaving secretly.

Case 14 Insomnia in a 26-year-old successful City man.

Case 15 A 15-year-old child assaults his foster mother.

Case 16 A 42-year-old woman insists she is pregnant.

Case 17 The wife of a 66-year-old GP with Parkinson’s disease is worried about him.

Case 18 Complete loss of memory in a fi t middle-aged man.

Case 19 A 32-year-old woman puts her GP under pressure.

Case 20 The 21-year-old critical medical student.

Case 21 A 24-year-old legal secretary with depressed mood and suicidal thoughts.

Case 22 A 41-year-old woman with epilepsy develops a different pattern of fits.

Part 3 Self-assessment.

MCQs.

EMQs.

SAQs.

Answers.

Index of cases by diagnosis.

Index.