Includes bibliographical references (p. [757]-882) and index.

Symptoms and signs of psychiatric disorders -- Classification and diagnosis -- Assessment -- Ethics and civil law -- Aetiology -- Evidence-based approaches to psychiatry -- Personality and personality disorder -- Reactions to stressful experiences -- Anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorders -- Somatoform and dissociative disorders -- Mood disorders -- Schizophrenia -- Paranoid symptoms and delusional disorders --;Dementia, delirium, and other neuropsychiatric disorders -- Eating disorders and sleep disorders -- Psychiatry and medicine -- Suicide and deliberate self-harm -- The misuse of alcohol and drugs -- Problems related to sexuality and gender identity -- Psychiatry of the elderly -- Drugs and other physical treatments -- Psychological treatment -- Psychiatric services -- Child psychiatry -- Learning disability (mental retardation) -- Forensic psychiatry.