Psychiatry : manual for English medium students of higher medical schools and interns

Abstract

A doctor of any speciality must know main mental disorders occurring in various diseases, as many patients with these disturbances at first consult general practitioners rather than psychiatrists. The ability to reveal the character of these disorders, devise correct tactics in each case makes it possible to increase efficacy of therapy for these patients. The manual is to facilitate students’ preparation for classes in psychiatry and pursues the aim of optimization in the process of studies. It is written with regard for practical problems which the futurex doctors will have to solve. The present manual is composed in compliance with the syllabus in psychiatry and narcology worked out by the basic department of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine – the Department of Psychiatry and Narcology of Kharkov State Medical University. In an intelligible form, the book informs about the main disturbances of the psychic activity, describes signs and syndromes of mental diseases. Unlike previous ones, this manual elucidates criteria of the current international classification of mental diseases, describes psychopathological syndromes in accordance with these criteria. The manual “Prepedeutics of Psychiatry” enables future doctors to learn fundamentals in the diagnosis of mental disorders and master psychiatric terms. In compliance with the requirements of the regulations for the procedure of preparation and publication of the educational and educational-methodical literature for higher medical and pharmaceutical educational establishments with the 3rd–4th levels of accreditation, the objective of the lesson, its contents and test questions are determined for each studied subject. In order to improve successfulness of the students’ mastering the knowledge, the manual contains problems for independent preparation which are composed according to the format of test tasks of “Krok-2” licensing examination.