Psychiatry is a speciality of medicine concerned with the diagnosis, treatment and study of mental diseases or disorders. Its practitioners are psychiatrists (in the USA, physicians with several years of approved training following their graduation...

Psychology defies simple definition, but is clearly much concerned with understanding how people and animals function normally. In contrast, PSYCHIATRY is the branch of medicine concerned with the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders,...

Psychiatry is a branch of medicine which exists to study, prevent, and treat mental disorders in humans.[1][2][3] The art and science of the clinical application of psychiatry has been considered a bridge between the social world and those who are...

A Century of Psychiatry, edited by Hugh Freeman, 374 pp, with illus, $120, Chicago, Ill, Mosby (telephone: 800-523-4229), 1999, ISBN 0-7234-3174-4 Type of Book: A multiauthored commentary on the past 100 years in psychiatry. Scope of Book: Several experts provide personal views...

MCQs in Psychiatry By David McNamara Gaskell, The Royal College of Psychiatrists, 2003 Paperback, ISBN: 1-901242-89-7, 250pp, £18.00 Psychiatry is a growing field and the development and expansion of knowledge are rapid. The data in psychiatry is not always consistent and conflicting views...