Introduction to Psychiatry

Introduction

Many epidemiological studies have revealed that one percent of the population suffer from psychiatric disorders requiring treatment. More than 40% of the people who present with variety of physical symptoms are found to have hidden psychiatric morbidity.

Hence, it is mandatory that the basic doctor should be able to conceptualize all the psychiatric disorders, recognize most of them, and treat at least a few of them. The following pages are intended to help, subserve those functions.