Robin M. Murray is Professor of Psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, UK. Kenneth S. Kendler is the Director of the Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Sciences, Virginia Commonwealth School of Medicine, Virginia, USA. Peter McGuffin is Professor of Psychiatric Genetics and Dean and Head of School at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, UK. Simon Wessely is Professor of Epidemiological and Liaison Psychiatry and Director, King's Centre for Military Health Research at King's College London, UK. David J. Castle is a Chair of Psychiatry at St Vincent's Hospital and the University of Melbourne, Australia. He is also a Consultant Psychiatrist at St Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne and Clinical Professor of the School of Psychiatry and Neurosciences, University of Western Australia, Australia.

'… a great strength of the volume, the book does not cover only adult and old age psychiatry but includes excellent contributions on child and adolescent mental health, sexual problems and the psychiatry of intellectual disability. … the reference remain a very useful spur to postgraduate study and the calibre of the authors as clinicians, researchers and policy-makers makes every chapter fresh, relevant and exciting. The editors deserve great congratulation for bringing this volume together and I for one am very grateful for its publication: I'm sure it will serve me as well for the future as the last edition did for the past 11 years.' Journal of Public Mental Health

• Contributors; Preface to the fourth edition; Part I. The Tools of Psychiatry: 1. The mental states and states of mind Paul E. Mullen; 2. Current approaches to classification Anne E. Farmer and Assen Jablensky; 3. Research methods in psychiatry Marieke Wichers and Jim van Os; 4. Imaging of brain structure and function - relevance to psychiatric disorders David Mamo and Shitij Kapur; 5. Genetic epidemiology Pak C. Sham and Kenneth S. Kendler; Part II. Psychiatric Disorders: 6. Psychiatric disorders in childhood and adolescence Ian M. Goodyer; 7. Personality disorder Peter Tyrer; 8. Anxiety disorders Paul Carey, Dan J. Stein and David Castle; 9. Eating disorders Janet Treasure and Ulrike Schmidt; 10. Alcohol problems Ilana B. Crome and Roger Bloor; 11. Drug use and drug dependence Wayne Hall and Michael Farrell; 12. Affective disorders Peter McGuffin; 13. Schizophrenia and related disorders Robin Murray and Kimberlie Dean; 14. Neuropsychiatry Perminder Sachdev; 15. The psychiatry of old age E. Jane Byrne, A. Burns and S. Lennon; 16. The psychiatry of intellectual disability Anthony Holland; 17. Sexual problems John Bancroft; Part III. Special Topics: 18. Social and cultural determinants of mental health Vikram Patel, Alan J. Flisher and Alex Cohen; 19. Psychiatric disorders of menses, pregnancy, postpartum, and menopause Anne Buist, Kimberly Yonkers and Michael Craig; 20. Suicide and self-harm Navneet Kapur and Louis Appleby; Part IV. Psychiatry in Specific Settings: 21. Psychiatry in primary care Paul Walters, André Tylee and David Goldberg; 22. Community psychiatry and service delivery models Michele Tansella, Graham Thornicroft and Ezra Susser; 23. General hospital psychiatry Matthew Hotopf and Simon Wessely; 24. Forensic psychiatry Kimberlie Dean, Tom Fahy, David Ndegwa and Elizabeth Walsh; Part V. Treatments in Psychiatry: 25. Biological treatments Evangelia M. Tsapakis and Katherine J. Aitchison; 26. Biological treatments for psychotic disorders Ragy R. Girgis, Scott A. Schobel and Jeffrey A. Lieberman; 27. Biological treatments of depression and anxiety Peter McGuffin and Anne E. Farmer; 28. Cognitive behaviour therapy Jan Scott and Aaron T. Beck; 29. Interpersonal psychotherapy Myrna M. Weissman and Marc B. J. Blom; 30. Psychodynamic psychotherapy Glen O. Gabbard and Jessica R. Nittler; 31. Family therapy Edwin Harari and Sidney Bloch; Index.