INTRODUCTION Mental health services �� Mental health services �� Classification in psychiatry History and aetiology Mental state examination Assessment of risk Management plan and formulation Mental capacity The Mental Health Act TREATMENT IN PSYCHIATRY Introduction to drug treatments Prescribing psychotropic drugs Antipsychotic drugs Antidepressant drugs Mood stabilisers Benzodiazepines and drugs for dementia Psychological treatments Family and social treatments Recovery/social inclusion and physical therapy SCHIZOPHRENIA Diagnosis and classification of schizophrenia Epidemiology and aetiology of schizophrenia Acute and chronic schizophrenia Management of schizophrenia MOOD DISORDERS Classification of mood disorders Epidemiology and aetiology of mood disorders Bipolar disorder-clinical presentation and management Depressive disorder-clinical presentation Depressive disorder-management NEUROTIC DISORDERS Anxiety disorders-clinical presentation and aetiology Anxiety disorders-management Obsessive-compulsive disorder Reactions to stress Dissociative and somatoform disorders PSYCHIATRY AND MEDICINE Liaison psychiatry Psychiatry in primary care Syndromes of cognitive impairment Neurology and psychiatry Organic causes of psychiatric symptoms Eating disorders Perinatal psychiatry PERSONALITY DISORDERS Personality disorders-introduction and classification Personality disorders-management THE PSYCHIATRIC SPECIALITIES Learning disability Child psychiatry �� Child psychiatry �� Old age psychiatry �� Old age psychiatry �� Forensic psychiatry Alcohol dependence �� Alcohol dependence �� Substance misuse Psychosexual disorders Recommended Reading Self-assessment Case history comments Index