Rehearse for life in clinical practice with this easy-to-use and unique series, which combines cases drawn from real-life experiences with a refreshing approach to presentations as you would see them in day-to-day situations.

Get the most from clinical practice, with Clinical Cases Uncovered

Psychiatry is one of the most interesting and challenging areas of study in medicine and Clinical Cases Uncovered is your guide through.

With presentations ranging from psychosis to memory loss and from insomnia to self-harm, you tackle each problem as it arises in everyday settings. Tips and key features are highlighted throughout so you can refer back to each case for exam revision and well into your career.

* Introduction
* 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 wihh 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