Product Description: This is one of the first books to comprehensively explore representations of madness in postwar British and American Fiction. The five authors come from diverse backgrounds – literary studies, social psychology, medical psychiatry and psychiatric nursing – and as such the book's perspectives are informed through several discourses, making it a unique co-authored text in the discipline of Health Humanities...read more

In this classic text the authors examine the links between racism, psychological ill health and inadequate treatment of ethnic minorities. Through a series of case studies they discuss: * the psychological legacy of colonialism and slavery * the racist bias in psychiatric and psychological theory * diagnostic bias * the role of religion in mental health or illness * the value of anthropological and pschoanalytic insights. The concluding chapter in this edition reviews the development of 'transcultural psychiatry' and summarises changes in administration of the Mental Health Act.

Product Description: MCQs are still widely used to assess medical students' knowledge. They are also very useful for self-assessment, allowing rapid movement through wide areas of knowledge.'MCQs in Psychiatry' provides 124 carefully worded multi-stem questions that not only test factual knowledge, but are also designed to ensure the application of knowledge by putting it into context...read more

(view table of contents)