Models for mental disorder - Peter Tyrer

The fourth edition of this extremely popular and humorous text incorporates the latest thinking on the four key models used in psychiatry: disease, psychodynamic, cognitive–behavioural and social. Revised and updated to reflect the continuing growth of integrated community mental health teams, Models for Mental Disorder is essential reading for all students and practitioners of psychiatry and psychology. Reviews of previous editions: “This book . . . will continue to provide and invaluable introduction to the diverse schools of thought by which clinical work and research in psychiatry are structured.” British Journal of Psychiatry “An excellent, balanced account which deserves to the widely read and debated” International Clinical Psychopharmacology

Peter Tyrer is Professor of Community Psychiatry and Head of Department of Psychological Medicine, Imperial College Faculty of Medicine and has a specialist interest in Personality Disorders. In addition to his clinical and academic work he lectures widely in Europe and has run clinical trials on the use of benzodiazepines in depression with particular attention to patients with personality disorders. He is currently Editor of the British Journal of Psychiatry , the most prestigious psychiatry journal in Europe. Derek Steinberg is now retired after a career as a consultant psychiatrist in the NHS.