ABSTRACT

100 Cases in Psychiatry presents 100 scenarios commonly seen in the hospital and community setting. The patient's history and examination are described, with questions on the diagnosis and management of each case. The answer includes a detailed discussion on each topic, providing an essential revision aid as well as a practical guide for students a

chapter 1|4 pages

How can you assess mental state?

chapter 2|2 pages

Untreated dental abscess

chapter 3|2 pages

Generalized anxiety

chapter 4|2 pages

Sick note

chapter 6|4 pages

Having a heart attack

chapter 8|2 pages

Hands raw with washing

chapter 9|4 pages

Unresponsive in the emergency department

chapter 10|2 pages

Bipolar disorder

chapter 11|2 pages

Psychodynamic therapy

chapter 12|4 pages

Never felt better

chapter 13|2 pages

Aches and pains and loss of interest

chapter 14|2 pages

Constantly tearful

chapter 15|4 pages

Voices comment on everything I do

chapter 17|2 pages

Unusual persecutory beliefs

chapter 18|2 pages

Abdominal pain in general practice

chapter 19|4 pages

A drink a day to keep my problems at bay

chapter 20|2 pages

Paracetemol overdose

chapter 21|2 pages

Spider phobia

chapter 22|2 pages

Déjà vu and amnesia

chapter 24|4 pages

My husband won’t let me go out

chapter 25|2 pages

Intensely fearful hallucinations

chapter 26|2 pages

Flashbacks and nightmares

chapter 27|2 pages

Ataxia

chapter 30|4 pages

Something’s not quite right

chapter 31|2 pages

Tricyclic antidepressant overdose

chapter 32|2 pages

Suicidal risk assessment

chapter 33|4 pages

Paranoia with movement disorder

chapter 34|2 pages

My nose is too big and ugly

chapter 36|2 pages

Disinhibited and behaving oddly

chapter 37|2 pages

Transference and counter transference

chapter 39|4 pages

Bulimia nervosa – constipation

chapter 40|2 pages

Fever, muscle rigidity, mental confusion

chapter 41|2 pages

‘Alien impulses’ and risk to others

chapter 42|2 pages

Feels like the room is changing shape

chapter 43|2 pages

Unable to open my fists

chapter 44|2 pages

Intense fatigue

chapter 45|4 pages

Epilepsy and symptoms of psychosis

chapter 46|2 pages

I’m impotent

chapter 47|4 pages

I love him but I don’t want sex

chapter 48|4 pages

Treatment of heroin addiction

chapter 49|2 pages

Exhibitionism

chapter 50|2 pages

Rapid tranquillization

chapter 51|2 pages

Palpitations

chapter 52|2 pages

Thoughts of killing her baby

chapter 53|2 pages

My wife is having an affair

chapter 54|2 pages

A man in police custody

chapter 55|2 pages

Stalking

chapter 56|2 pages

An angry man

chapter 57|4 pages

Treatment resistant depression

chapter 58|4 pages

Treatment resistant schizophrenia

chapter 59|2 pages

Low mood and tired all of the time

chapter 60|2 pages

A profoundly deaf man ‘hearing voices’

chapter 61|2 pages

I am sure I am not well

chapter 64|2 pages

Seeing flies on the ceiling

chapter 66|2 pages

Paranoia – my wife is poisoning my food

chapter 67|2 pages

Acute agitation in a medical in-patient

chapter 68|4 pages

Woman is not eating or drinking anything

chapter 70|2 pages

Parkinson’s disease

chapter 72|2 pages

Depression in a carer

chapter 73|2 pages

My wife is an impostor

chapter 74|2 pages

Marked tremor, getting worse

chapter 75|2 pages

He can’t sit still

chapter 76|4 pages

Socially isolated

chapter 78|4 pages

Anorexia

chapter 79|4 pages

Cutting on the forearms

chapter 80|2 pages

Feelings of guilt

chapter 81|2 pages

Intense feelings of worthlessness

chapter 82|2 pages

Seeing things that aren’t there

chapter 83|2 pages

Separation anxiety

chapter 84|2 pages

Soiling behind sofa

chapter 85|2 pages

She won’t say anything at school

chapter 86|2 pages

Tics and checking behaviour

chapter 87|4 pages

Not eating, moving or speaking

chapter 88|2 pages

Attachment disorder

chapter 89|2 pages

Tantrums

chapter 90|2 pages

Gender identity disorder

chapter 91|4 pages

Blood in the urine of a healthy girl

chapter 92|2 pages

Child protection

chapter 93|2 pages

He doesn’t play with other children

chapter 94|4 pages

Trouble in the classroom

chapter 95|2 pages

Restlessness

chapter 96|4 pages

A man with Down syndrome is not coping

chapter 99|4 pages

Malaise and high blood pressure