Fully updated to include the review materials and practice you need for the new Situational Judgment Test The expert advice, instruction, review and practice students need to score high on the UKCAT. If you re planning on applying to medical or dental school, the new edition of UKAT For Dummies provides a proven formula for success. It s packed with practice questions, in-depth answers, and strategies and tips for scoring well on each of the test sections, including the Situational Judgment Test and the new question types introduced for the Verbal Reasoning and Abstract Reasoning test sections.

RD Laing presented madness as a voyage of discovery that could open out onto a free state of higher consciousness, or hypersanity. But if there is such a thing as hypersanity, then mere sanity is not all it's cracked up to be, a state of dormancy and dullness with less vital potential even than madness. We could all go mad, in a way we already are, minus the promise. But what if there was another route to hypersanity, one which, compared to madness, was less fearsome, less dangerous, and less damaging? What if, as well as a backdoor way, there was also a royal road strewn with petals and sprayed with perfume? This is a book about thinking, which, astonishingly, is barely taught in formal education. Our culture mostly equates thinking with logical reasoning, and the first few chapters examine logic, reason, their forms, and their flaws, starting with the basics of argumentation. But thinking is also about much more than logical reasoning, and so the book broadens out to examine concepts such as intelligence, knowledge, and truth, and alternative forms of cognition that our culture tends to overlook and underplay, including intuition, emotion, and imagination. If Hypersanity fails to live up to its tall promise, it should at least make you into a better thinker. And so you can approach the book as an opportunity to hone your thinking skills, which, in the end, are going to be far more important to your impact and wellbeing than any facts that you could ever learn. As BF Skinner once put it, `Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.'

The Thinking Skills Assessment (TSA) is an admission test for an increasing number of courses at an increasing number of universities, including Oxford and Cambridge. The emphasis of the TSA is very much on thinking skills, and the amount of knowledge required is minimal. This means that the best way to prepare is to develop your thinking skills by working through a large number of TSA-style questions. You should look upon the TSA not only as a means to stand out from your competition, but also as an opportunity to hone your thinking skills, which are going to be far more important to your future impact and wellbeing than any facts that you could ever learn. As BF Skinner once put it, Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten. This book, written by an Oxford tutor and writer, covers all aspects of the TSA, including problem-solving, critical thinking, and the writing task. The bulk of the book consists of three full-length mock papers, each followed by fully explained answers to the questions asked."

"This book is very different from any medical textbook you've ever read... its greatest merit is to have single-handedly transformed the perception of psychiatry from that of Cinderella speciality to that of hottest speciality on offer."

Following in the footsteps of the groundbreaking first edition, this second edition of "Psychiatry" is a comprehensive textbook of mental health that brings its subject alive with numerous case studies, images and photographs, and short references from the arts, history, and philosophy. These not only facilitate learning and memorisation, but also highlight the subjective experience of mental illness, and stimulate thought into the nature of the human experience.

Based on extensive feedback from students and lecturers, this second edition places greater emphasis on psychological treatments, clinical skills, and exam success, and integrates more than 350 self-assessment questions.

Other important features include: A clear and attractive layout with colour coding and colour images and photographsLearning objectives, boxed summaries, and self-assessment questions in every chapterStep-by-step coverage of the psychiatric history, mental state examination, and formulation, with an integrated account of the signs and symptoms of mental disorders and a model case historyClinical skills/OSCE boxes on competencies such as enquiring about delusions and hallucinations, assessing suicidal risk, and assessing capacityGreater coverage of psychiatric subspecialtiesAn expanded chapter on the history of psychiatry with introductions to Freud and Jung

"Psychiatry" is "the" perfect textbook for medical students, junior doctors, GPs, and all healthcare professionals needing a thorough account of mental disorders.

Was es heisst, verruckt zu sein Die Zahl psychischer Erkrankungen nimmt vor allem in den Industrielandern stetig zu. Auch in Deutschland leiden immer mehr Menschen etwa an Depressionen oder Angststoerungen. Psychische Stoerungen koennen uns alle betreffen: Sie sind in der Mitte der Gesellschaft angekommen, auch wenn ihr Wesen und ihre Ursachen nach wie vor Ratsel aufgeben. Das Buch von Neel Burton beschreibt und erlautert die wichtigsten dieser Stoerungen und ruckt sie zugleich in ein neues Licht: Koennte der "Wahnsinn" einen tieferen Sinn fur uns Menschen haben? Der Sinn des Wahnsinns will auch eine Debatte uber psychische Stoerungen anstossen. Das Buch soll das Interesse an der Thematik wecken und den Leser dazu anregen, uber jene geheimnisvolle Seite der Seele nachzudenken. Fragen gibt es genug: Was ist beispielsweise Schizophrenie? Warum ist sie so verbreitet? Warum tritt sie nur bei Menschen auf und nicht bei Tieren? Was kann uns dies uber Koerper und Seele sagen, uber Sprache und Kreativitat, uber Musik und Religion? Welche Behandlungsmoeglichkeiten gibt es bei Depression? Wie koennen Menschen lernen, mit Angst umzugehen? Wo liegt die Grenze zwischen psychisch "krank" und psychisch "normal"? Gibt es einen Zusammenhang zwischen psychischen Stoerungen und Genialitat? Und sind wir alle ein wenig "verruckt"? Einfuhlsam und mit zahlreichen Bezugen zu Literatur, Kunst und Philosophie widmet sich Burton den Grundelementen der Persoenlichkeit, der Schizophrenie und dem "Preis des Menschseins", der Depression und dem "Fluch des Starken", der manisch-depressiven Erkrankung, der Angst und ihrem Zusammenhang mit Freiheit und Tod sowie dem Suizid. Dabei geht er der Frage nach, was uns psychische Stoerungen uber das Wesen des Menschen und uber die Bedingungen des menschlichen Daseins verraten koennen. "Eine fesselnde Lekture fur alle, die einmal einen Blick in die Welt der psychischen Stoerungen werfen wollen." Professor Robert Howard, Vorsitzender des Royal College of Psychiatrists in London

Things are not all they seem. This is a book about how depression can have benefits as well as costs, and how to reap those benefits.

Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love... Fyodor Dostoevsky Self-deception is common and universal, and the cause of most human tragedies. Of course, the science of self-deception can help us to live better and get more out of life. But it can also cast a murky light on human nature and the human condition, for example, on such exclusively human phenomena as anger, depression, fear, pity, pride, dream making, love making, and god making, not to forget age-old philosophical problems such as selfhood, virtue, happiness, and the good life. Nothing, in the end, could possibly be more important.