Table of Contents

Preface to the third edition

1. A brief history of psychiatry

2. The psychiatric assessment

3. Mental healthcare

4. Schizophrenia and other psychoses

5. Mood disturbances

6. Suicide and deliberate self-harm

7. Anxiety, stress-related, and somatoform disorders

8. Personality disorders

9. Organic disorders (delirium and dementias)

10. Intellectual disability

11. Substance misuse (alcohol and drugs)

12. Eating, sleep, and sexual disorders

13. Child and adolescent psychiatry

Self-assessment