A text for clinical medical students, general practitioners, and professionals who see patients with psychiatric problems. It focuses on management of psychiatric problems in clinical practice, and advises clinicians when to manage problems themselves and when to refer to a psychiatrist.

Signs and symptoms; Interviewing and clinical evaluation; Classification; Aetiology; Personality and its disorders; Reactions to stressful experiences; Neurosis; Affective disorders; Schizophrenia and schizophrenia-like disorders; Paranoid symptoms and paranoid syndromes; Organic psychiatric disorders; Psychiatry and medicine; Suicide and deliberate self-harm; The abuse of alcohol and drugs; Problems of sexuality and gender; Psychiatry of the elderly; Drugs and other physical treatments; Psychological treatment; Psychiatric care in the community; Child and adolescent psychiatry; Mental retardation; Psychiatry and the law. Appendix: The Law in England and Wales.