HIGH-YIELD PRINCIPLES IN

Psychiatry

  Psychiatry

  Pathology

  Pharmacology

“Words of comfort, skillfully administered, are the oldest therapy known to man.”

—Louis Nizer

“All men should strive to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.”

—James Thurber

“Man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.”

—St. Augustine

“It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”

—Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

This chapter encompasses overlapping areas in psychiatry, psychology, sociology, and psychopharmacology. High-yield topics include schizophrenia, mood disorders, eating disorders, personality disorders, psychosomatic/somatoform disorders, and antipsychotic agents. Know the DSM-5 criteria for diagnosing common psychiatric disorders.

  PSYCHIATRY–PSYCHOLOGY

  PSYCHIATRY–PATHOLOGY

  PSYCHIATRY–PHARMACOLOGY