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<p>Working group vi</p> <p>Contributors viii</p> <p>Foreword ix</p> <p>Preface and acknowledgements xi</p> <p>Contact details and website information xii</p> <p>How to use your textbook xiii</p> <p>1 Structured approach to acute psychiatric emergencies 1</p> <p>2 Primary unified assessment and immediate psychiatric management 5</p> <p>3 Secondary physical and psychosocial assessment 13</p> <p>4 The patient who has harmed themselves 19</p> <p>5 The apparently drunk patient 37</p> <p>6 The patient behaving strangely 51</p> <p>7 The acutely confused patient 63</p> <p>8 The aggressive patient 75</p> <p>9 Legal aspects of emergency psychiatry 91</p> <p>10 Human factors 97</p> <p>11 The patient experience 107</p> <p>Index 111</p>

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