Schizophrenia A Practical Primer 1st Edition by Ravinder Reddy, Matcheri Keshavan ISBN 1841845296 978-1841845296

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ISBN 10:  1841845296 

ISBN 13: 978-1841845296

Author:  Ravinder Reddy, Matcheri S. Keshavan

Providing essential, state-of-the-art information in easily digestible segments for clinicians and students, this unique text includes the following key features:

brief, realistic case vignettes adapted from real clinical experience, which increase understanding of the clinical or theoretical point being made
questions interspersed throughout the book to promote information retention.

Using a ‘phase-of-illness’ approach to schizophrenia and its management, this important text provides the best context in which to discuss and integrate various technical and theoretical aspects, and also describes treatment customized to the phase in which the patient is presented. The only one of its kind – no other currently available book takes this approach.

Detailed, informative and user-friendly, Schizophrenia is essential reading for all primary care physicians, psychiatry trainees, and early career mental health workers.

Table of contents: 

1. What is and is not schizophrenia?

2. Assessment of schizophrenia

3. Non-illness related factors affecting assessment

4. Schizophrenia, spirituality, and religion

5. Putting together the (clinical) pieces

6. Talking to patients and families

7. Prognostication

8. Phase-specific treatment

9. Managing symptoms: pharmacological approach

10. Managing symptoms: psychosocial approaches

11. Rehabilitation: road to recovery

12. Managing treatment-related complications

13. Suboptimal treatment response

14. Treatment non-adherence

15. Managing decompensation and relapse

16. Suicide and violence

17. Achieving recovery

18. History of schizophrenia

19. Who gets schizophrenia and why?

20. Neurobiology of schizophrenia

21. What does the future hold?

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