Mental Health Specialty Treatment Techniques

Author: Cui Yuhua
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Publish Date: 2004-05-01
Features: The Peking University Mental Health Center (the Sixth Hospital) is a renowned psychiatric specialty hospital in China. The hospital is home to numerous well-known experts and professors. This book is edited by Professor Shen Yuyou, the honorary president of the hospital and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. The authors are primarily middle-aged and young professional backbone members who, based on their years of clinical practice, present the current main characteristic treatment techniques of the hospital from the perspective of professional development while using as simple language as possible. This book is aimed at clinical physicians from various departments of general hospitals, as well as general practitioners from grassroots hospitals and community health care centers. It is also intended for a broad readership, including non-medical professionals and patients' families. Based on the readers' characteristics, the book first introduces the basic knowledge of psychiatry, such as the characteristics of psychiatric medical institutions, symptomology, and classification. Subsequently, in each chapter, it briefly introduces relevant basic key points, such as the concept of diseases, clinical manifestations, diagnosis, and differential diagnosis, but the focus is primarily on the various characteristic treatments, including the treatment of 12 common and severe clinical psychiatric disorders, as well as the specialized treatment in the third section. Regarding the various characteristic treatments, the introduction strives to highlight their features while considering both systematicity and comprehensiveness, as well as simplicity and practicality for ease of operation. Due to the continuous development of the discipline and the fact that this is only the treatment technology of one hospital, it is inevitable that there will be certain "limitations" regardless. Although the authors of this book have made every effort to incorporate new perspectives and technologies, there will undoubtedly still be many omissions and inaccuracies. Therefore, readers should understand and flexibly apply the corresponding treatment techniques based on actual circumstances when reading this book.