PSYCHIATRY FOR MEDICAL STUDENTS

Over the past 80 years psychiatry is one of medical specialties that have undergone tremendous advancement in diag-nosis, aetiology and management.
Psychiatry is defined as the medical branch that deals with disturbances affecting thinking, affect, perception, behaviour and volition.
It can also be defined as the art of interpersonal relationShip
This book Psychiatry for medical students could not have been written without the encouragement and team effort done by the faculty members at the Okasha Institute of Psy-chiatry, Faculty of Medicine Ain Shams University.
This book helps medical undergraduates understand different psychiatric symptomatology in different psychiatric disorders and how to elicit these symptoms, to recall the different important definition in psychiatric disorders and symptoms, to be able to find a provisional diagnosis and to understand different psychiatric treatment modalities.