Table of Contents

1. Thinking about psychiatry; 2. Psychiatric assessment; 3. Symptoms of psychiatric illness; 4. Evidence-based psychiatry; 5. Organic illness; 6. Schizophrenia and related psychoses; 7. Depressive illness; 8. Bipolar illness; 9. Anxiety and stress-related disorders; 10. Eating and impulse-control disorders; 11. Sleep disorders; 12. Reproductive psychiatry, sexual dysfunction and sexuality; 13. Personality disorders; 14. Old age psychiatry; 15. Substance misuse; 16. Child and adolescent psychiatry; 17. Forensic psychiatry; 18. Learning disability; 19. Liaison psychiatry; 20. Psychotherapy; 21. Legal issues; 22. Transcultural psychiatry; 23. Therapeutic issues; 24. Difficult and urgent situations; 25. Useful resources; 26. ICD-10 / DSM-IV index

About the Author

Dr Roger Smyth was born and educated in Belfast, Northern Ireland and came to Scotland to study Medicine at the University of Edinburgh. He trained in Psychiatry in South East Scotland. Together with a group of friends and colleagues he wrote the first edition of the Oxford Handbook of Psychiatry. Dr Smyth took up his first Consultant Psychiatrist post in St John's Hospital, Livingston in 2004, and moved to the Department of Psychological Medicine at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh in 2006 to specialise in Liaison Psychiatry. Dr David Semple was born and educated in Coleraine, Northern Ireland, studying Medicine at the University of Edinburgh from 1987-1992. He trained in Psychiatry in the Borders/South East Scotland during which time he conducted research funded by Wellcome into the long-term effects of ecstasy. During his time as a Lecturer/Specialist Registrar based at the Royal Edinburgh Hospital/University of Edinburgh he wrote the first edition of the Oxford Handbook of Psychiatry with a group of friends including close collaborator Dr Roger Smyth. Dr Semple was appointed to his current post as a Consultant General Adult Psychiatrist at Hairmyres Hospital in 2004.