I. Learning unit: Introduction to psychiatry. The forms of psychiatric care.
The psychiatric examination, mental state description, case summary. The
most important psychiatric symptoms.
János Réthelyi and Attila Pulay
Introduction
Objective: to become familiar with the general concepts of psychiatry, to
understand the significance of the psyhiatric examination and the different forms
of psychiatric care.
Introduction
In this unit you will become acquainted with psychiatry, as a field within clinical
medicine. You will read case reports about the different possibilities of psychiatric
care and you will have the possibility to learn the most important techniques of
psychiatric examination.
Target group: Medical students
Literature
Recommended learning methods
Read all texts.
After this answer the questions. If you can’T answer all questions, go back to the
text.
Perform the self-evaluation test.
Read through this unit without cessation.
Necessary time: 1,5 hours
Recommended literature
Kaplan & Sadock's Synopsis of Psychiatry. Tenth Edition. Eds: B J Sadock, V A
Sadock, Lippincott Williams, 2007
Key words: psychiatry, psychiatric patient, forms of psychiatric treatment,
voluntary treatment, compulsory treatment, emergency admission, referral,
psychiatric examination, exploration, psychopathology, mental state, riskassessment
Contents
I/1. Introduction to psychiatry and the basic concepts of psychiatry
I/1.1. What is psychiatry?
I/1.2. The first detection of psychiatric symptoms
I/1.3. Possible pathways of psychiatric patients in the health care system
I/1.4. Special forms of psychiatric treatment
I/1.5. Stigmatisation and discrimination of psychiatric patients
I/1.6. Case reports
I/2. The psychiatric examination
I/2.1. Characteristics of the psychiatric examination
I/2.2. Optimal conditions of the psychiatric examination
I/2.3. Mental state examination and the most important psychiatric symptoms
I/2.4. The psychiatric case report
I/2.5. Case reports continued: Mental state examination and description