Contents

Symbols and abbreviations - xiv
1. Thinking about psychiatry - xiii
2. Psychiatric assessment - 33
3. Symptoms of psychiatric illness - 83
4. Evidence-based psychiatry - 107
5. Organic illness - 129
6. Schizophrenia and related psychoses - 173
7. Depressive illness - 231
8. Bipolar illness - 301
9. Anxiety and stress-related disorders - 351
10. Eating and impulse-control disorders - 397
11. Sleep disorders - 413
12. Reproductive psychiatry, sexual dysfunction, and sexuality - 461
13. Personality disorders - 489
14. Old age psychiatry - 511
15. Substance misuse - 535
16. Child and adolescent psychiatry - 609
17. Forensic psychiatry - 669
18. Learning disability - 725
19. Liaison psychiatry - 775
20. Psychotherapy - 819
21. Legal issues - 865
22. Transcultural psychiatry - 907
23. Therapeutic issues - 923
24. Difficult and urgent situations - 981
25. Useful resources - 1009
26. ICD-10/DSM-IV index - 1023
Index - 1043