Consultant Psychiatrist in Psychiatric Intensive Care at Cheadle Royal Hospital, Visiting Professor at the University of Chester, and Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Liverpool

"A pacy look at problem-based psychiatry...The text is spiced with a number of case-stories and compelling vignettes from popular culture, history and literature...Best of all, Green succeeds in doing what many authors fail to do: his probing questions invite the reader to examine critically the issues." NURSING STANDARD

• The history of psychiatry. Psychiatry in old age. Organic psychiatry. Pain and somatisation. Personality. Physical treatments. Psychiatry: ethics and the law. Psychotherapy. Post traumatic stress disorder. Mental retardation. Schizophrenia. Sexual aspects of psychiatry. Suicide and deliberate self-harm.

Consultant Psychiatrist in Psychiatric Intensive Care at Cheadle Royal Hospital, Visiting Professor at the University of Chester, and Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Liverpool

"A pacy look at problem-based psychiatry...The text is spiced with a number of case-stories and compelling vignettes from popular culture, history and literature...Best of all, Green succeeds in doing what many authors fail to do: his probing questions invite the reader to examine critically the issues." NURSING STANDARD

• The history of psychiatry. Psychiatry in old age. Organic psychiatry. Pain and somatisation. Personality. Physical treatments. Psychiatry: ethics and the law. Psychotherapy. Post traumatic stress disorder. Mental retardation. Schizophrenia. Sexual aspects of psychiatry. Suicide and deliberate self-harm.

Consultant Psychiatrist in Psychiatric Intensive Care at Cheadle Royal Hospital, Visiting Professor at the University of Chester, and Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Liverpool

"A pacy look at problem-based psychiatry...The text is spiced with a number of case-stories and compelling vignettes from popular culture, history and literature...Best of all, Green succeeds in doing what many authors fail to do: his probing questions invite the reader to examine critically the issues." NURSING STANDARD

• The history of psychiatry. Psychiatry in old age. Organic psychiatry. Pain and somatisation. Personality. Physical treatments. Psychiatry: ethics and the law. Psychotherapy. Post traumatic stress disorder. Mental retardation. Schizophrenia. Sexual aspects of psychiatry. Suicide and deliberate self-harm.