Table of Contents

1. Information gathering. 2. Developing a narrative: Mr Daniels. 3. Assessing suicidal risk: Arthur Wrigley. 4. An overdose: Mary Brown. 5. Fear of becoming fat: Jane Morgan. 6. A domestic dispute: Mr Rogers. 7. A blackout at work: Mr Pillay. 8. A solicitor's request: Mr Loyola. 9. Fear of going out: Mrs Reiss. 10. I have no longer a mind of my own: George Forrester. 11. My house is bugged: Mr Butler. 12. A panic attack: Mrs Woolfe. 13. I've felt different all my life: Miss Jordash. 14. A poor historian: Mr David Stone.

About the Author

Maurice Greenberg works within the Student Counselling Service at University College London. Sukhwinder Singh Shergill is a senior lecturer and honorary consultant psychiatrist at the Institute of Psychiatry. George Szmukler is a consultant psychiatrist and medical director at the Maudsley Hospital. Digby Tantam works with DILEMMA in Sheffield.