LECTURE

1. History, the place of Psychiatry in Medicine. Content and branches of Psychiatry. Normality, abnormality, mental illness. Theoretical issues (psychoanalysis, phenomenology, existentialism, psychosomatics). 

2. Psychiatric semiology: cognitive and affective-conceptual processes and behavioural integration, consciousness and personality 

3. Main psychiatric syndromes. Psychiatric examination 

4. Elements of psychiatric therapy (biological and non-biological) 

5. Etiopathogenesis and classification of mental illnesses 

6. Affective disorders. Manic episode. Bipolar disorder. Depressive disorders 

7. Schizophrenia and delusional disorder 

8. Personality and behaviour disorders 

9. Anxiety disorders. Suicide 

10. Organic mental disorders and mental retardation. Psychosomatics 

11. Mental disorders related to psychoactive substance use 

12. Psychiatric emergencies. Ethical Issues in Psychiatry 

13. Elements of psychiatric epidemiology, psychoprophylaxis and psychiatric care. Expert Issues in Psychiatry

CLINICAL STAGES

- Psychiatric examination

- Psychiatric observation sheet

- Semiology, psychiatric syndromes

- Elements of psycho-diagnosis

- Biological and non-biological therapies

- Emotional disorders

- Schizophrenia and delusional disorders

- Anxiety disorders

- Psychiatric emergencies

- Alcohol-related mental disorders

- Organic mental disorders

- Therapeutic program per case

- Psychiatric emergencies