Table of Contents

1. Signs, symptoms and diagnosis; 2. Assessment; 3. Aetiology; 4. Personality and its disorders; 5. Reactions to stressful experiences; 6. Anxiety and obsessional disorders; 7. Somatoform and dissociative disorders; 8. Mood disorders; 9. Schizophrenia and related disorders; 10. Delirium, dementia and other cognitive disorders; 11. Psychiatry and medicine; 12. Disorders of eating and sleeping; 13. Suicide and deliberate self harm; 14. Problems due to the use of alcohol and other psychoactive substances; 15. Problems of sexuality and gender; 16. Psychiatry of the elderly; 17. Drugs and other physical treatments; 18. Psychological treatment; 19. Mental health care for a community; 20. Child and adolescent psychiatry; 21. Learning disability; 22. Psychiatry and the law

Reviews

This is an excellent revised edition of this introductory textbook of psychiatry. Trainees in psychiatry would benefit from reading this book. --Doody's