Robin Murray

This new edition provides essential practical guidance on the psychiatric and neuropsychiatric examination and interviewing of adults and children, a core skill and the basis for reaching a diagnosis and defining a treatment plan.

This is a practical manual on the care and management of schizophrenic patients. It seeks to be both scholarly and clinically-oriented, targetting the entire community of clinicians, trainees and students on clinical topics.

Moving from coverage of the tools and skills of the trade, through descriptions of the major psychiatric disorders and on to considering special topics and issues surrounding service organization, this textbook covers the breadth and depth of psychiatry for both practitioners and those in training.

"A fully updated third edition covering the current research and clinical aspects on the interactions between cannabis and mental illness. Extensively expanded to include new chapters on prenatal cannabis exposure, addiction genetics, cannabis withdrawal, and cannabis and sleep. Essential reading for all members of the mental health team"-- Provided by publisher.