Previous edition: 2012

Includes bibliographical references and index

Signs and symptoma of psychiatric disorders -- Classification -- Assessment -- Ethics and civil law -- Aetiology -- Evidence-based approaches to psychiatry -- Reactions to stressful experiences -- Anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorders -- Depression -- Bipolar disorder -- Schizophrenia -- Paranoid symptoms and syndromes -- Eating, sleep, and sexual disorders -- Dementia, delirium, and other neuropsychiatric disorders -- Personality and personality disorder -- Child psychiatry -- Intellectual disability -- Forensic psychiatry -- Psychiatry of the elderly -- The misuse of alcohol and drugs -- Suicide and deliberate self-harm -- Psychiatry and medicine -- Global psychiatry -- Psychological treatments -- Drugs and other physical treatments -- Psychiatric services