This second edition of Seminars in General Adult Psychiatry provides a highly readable and comprehensive account of modern adult psychiatry.

Contents; List of tables, boxes and figures; List of contributors; Preface to the second edition; Preface to the first edition; 1. Clinical features of depressive disorders Alan Lee; 2. Mania, bipolar disorder and their treatment John Cookson; 3. The causes of depression Kezia Lange and Anne Farmer; 4. Drug treatment of depression Morris Bernadt; 5. Electroconvulsive therapy and other physical therapies Arun Jha; 6. Psychological treatment of depression Stirling Moorey; 7. Suicide and non-fatal deliberate self-harm Christopher A. Vassilas, Gethin Morgan, John Owen and George Tadros; 8. Schizophrenia: the clinical picture Peter F. Liddle; 9. Schizoaffective, paranoid and other psychoses Clive Mellor; 10. The aetiology of schizophrenia Pak Sham, Peter Woodruff, Michael Hunter and Julian Leff; 11. The pharmacological management of schizophrenia Amlan Basu, Jerson Pereira and Katherine J. Aitchison; 12. Schizophrenia: psychological and social approaches to treatment and care Frank Holloway and George Stein; 13. Anxiety disorders Spilios Argyropoulos, Adam Campbell and George Stein; 14. Phobias Lynne M. Drummond and Naomi A. Fineberg; 15. Obsessive-compulsive disorder Lynne M. Drummond and Naomi A. Fineberg; 16. Conversion and dissociative disorders, hypochondriasis and chronic pain Tom Brown and Harold Merskey; 17. Psychiatry in the general hospital Hiroko Akagi and Allan House; 18. Clinical features of the personality and impulse control disorders Patricia Casey; 19. Treatment and outcome of the personality disorders Michael Stone; 20. Organic psychiatric disorders Robin Jacobson, Irshaad Ebrahim and Michael Kopelman; 21. Psychiatric aspects of neurological disorders Jonathan Bird and Danny Rogers; 22. Toxic, metabolic and endocrine disorders Roger Howells; 23. Sleep disorders Gregory Stores and Irshaad Ebrahim; 24. Anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa Janet Treasure; 25. Perinatal psychiatric disorders George Stein; 26. Psychosexual medicine for psychiatrists Peter Trigwell and Gill Kirk; 27. Clinical epidemiology Matthew Hotopf; 28. Principles of nosology Anne Farmer and Muna Adwa; 29. Mental health services Rosalind Ramsay and Frank Holloway; 30. Psychiatry in general practice Greg Wilkinson; 31. Cultural and international psychiatry Vikram Patel and George Stein; Index.