Preceded by: Lecture notes. Psychiatry. 10th ed. / Paul Harrison, John Geddes, Michael Sharpe. 2010.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The basic psychiatric assessment -- Diagnosis-specific assessments -- Risk: harm, self-harm, and suicide -- Completing and communicating the assessment -- What causes mental health problems? -- Treatment -- Psychiatric services and specialties -- Mood disorders -- Neurotic, stress-related and somatoform disorders -- Eating, sleep and sexual disorders -- Schizophrenia -- Dementia, delirium and neuropsychiatry -- Substance misuse -- Personality disorders -- Childhood disorders -- Learning disability (mental retardation) -- Psychiatry in other settings -- Mental health and the law.