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Practical psychiatry of old age, 3rd edn

Edited by J P Wattis, S Curran (Pp 268, £24.95). Published by Radcliffe Medical Press Ltd, Abingdon, 2001. ISBN 1857752457

Keywords: psychiatry; elderly

It is a curious thing that old age psychiatry is such a geographically weak discipline. There are many and excellent old age psychiatrists in Australia and Norway. The UK is arguably the home of old age psychiatry and the discipline is well established in the United States. However, in most European countries, let alone further afield, old age psychiatry as a discipline either doesn't exist or is limited in scope.

This is a shame, as amply shown by this book. The argument in favour of old age psychiatry is well presented by Wattis and Curran. It is discipline that is at home with physical disease as much as what used to be called functional disorders; a discipline that is perhaps the most comfortable with multidisciplinary working; a discipline that can move in the course of a day's clinical work from molecular genetics to psychotherapy with demented people. Practical psychiatry of . . . [Full text of this article]

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