Paul Harrison is Professor of Psychiatry at the Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, UK.Philip Cowen is Professor of Psychopharmacology at the Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, UK.Tom Burns is Chair of Social Psychiatry at the Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, UK.Mina Fazel is Associate Professor at the Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, UK.

This book covers all major aspects of psychiatry in its 26 chapters. It endeavors to cover a number of topics that are not always addressed in general psychiatry books, including behavioral complications of neurological and medical illness as well as complexities that are unique to subspecialty populations [...] Overall, this is a strong addition to the field and it provides a good overview of complex material in a format that is manageable for student learners.

• 1: Signs and symptoms of psychiatric disorders 2: Classification 3: Assessment 4: Ethics and civil law 5: Aetiology 6: Evidence-based approaches to psychiatry 7: Reactions to stressful experiences 8: Anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorders 9: Depression 10: Bipolar disorder 11: Schizophrenia 12: Paranoid symptoms and syndromes 13: Eating, sleep, and sexual disorders 14: Dementia, delirium, and other neuropsychiatric disorders 15: Personality and personality disorder 16: Child psychiatry 17: Intellectual disability (Mental retardation) 18: Forensic psychiatry 19: Psychiatry of the elderly 20: The misuse of alcohol and drugs 21: Suicide and deliberate self-harm 22: Psychiatry and medicine 23: Global psychiatry 24: Psychological treatments 25: Drugs and other physical treatments 26: Psychiatric services References Index

Paul Harrison is Professor of Psychiatry at the Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, UK.Philip Cowen is Professor of Psychopharmacology at the Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, UK.Tom Burns is Chair of Social Psychiatry at the Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, UK.Mina Fazel is Associate Professor at the Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, UK.

This book covers all major aspects of psychiatry in its 26 chapters. It endeavors to cover a number of topics that are not always addressed in general psychiatry books, including behavioral complications of neurological and medical illness as well as complexities that are unique to subspecialty populations [...] Overall, this is a strong addition to the field and it provides a good overview of complex material in a format that is manageable for student learners.

• 1: Signs and symptoms of psychiatric disorders 2: Classification 3: Assessment 4: Ethics and civil law 5: Aetiology 6: Evidence-based approaches to psychiatry 7: Reactions to stressful experiences 8: Anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorders 9: Depression 10: Bipolar disorder 11: Schizophrenia 12: Paranoid symptoms and syndromes 13: Eating, sleep, and sexual disorders 14: Dementia, delirium, and other neuropsychiatric disorders 15: Personality and personality disorder 16: Child psychiatry 17: Intellectual disability (Mental retardation) 18: Forensic psychiatry 19: Psychiatry of the elderly 20: The misuse of alcohol and drugs 21: Suicide and deliberate self-harm 22: Psychiatry and medicine 23: Global psychiatry 24: Psychological treatments 25: Drugs and other physical treatments 26: Psychiatric services References Index