Peter Byrne & Nicola Byrne 
Psychiatry 
Clinical Cases Uncovered, eTextbook

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.

For further information, visit
www.clinicalcasesuncovered.com

Tabela de Conteúdo

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 with 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.

Sobre o autor

Peter Byrne, Consultant Liaison Psychiatrist at Newham
University Hospital, Glenn Road, London.

Nicola Byrne, Consultant Psychiatrist, Maudsley Hospital,
London.