Title page; Table of Contents; Preface to the second edition; Preface to the first edition; Foreword; Part 1; A brief history of psychiatry; Patient assessment; The delivery of mental health care; Part 2; Schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders; Affective (mood) disorders; Suicide and deliberate self -harm; Neurotic, stress -- related, and somatoform disorders(anxiety disorders); Personality disorders; Organic psychiatric disorders (delirium and dementias); Mental retardation(learning disabilities); Substance misuse; Eating, sleep, and sexual disorders; Child and adolescent psychiatry.;"This book is very different from any medical textbook you've ever read ... its greatest merit is to have single-handedly transformed the perception of psychiatry from that of Cinderella speciality to that of hottest speciality on offer." Following in the footsteps of the groundbreaking first edition, this second edition of Psychiatry is a comprehensive textbook of mental health that brings its subject alive with numerous case studies, images and photographs, and short references from the arts, history, and philosophy. These not only facilitate learning and memorisation, but also highlight the su.