This is a textbook of psychiatry for medical students that presents the subject in a graphic and accessible way.

Introduction. The life cycle. Classification, aetiology, management and prognostic factors. The doctor-patient relationship. History taking and clinical examination. Organic psychiatry. Psychoactive substance use disorders. Schizophrenia and delusional (paranoid0 disorders. Mood disorders, suicide and parasuicide. Neurotic and other stress-related anxiety disorders. The dissociative (conversion) and somatoform disorders. Psychiatry of menstruation and pregnancy. Psychiatry of sexuality. Sleep disorders. Personality disorders. Child and adolescent psychiatry. Psychiatry of disability. Eating disorders. Transcultural psychiatry. Psychiatry of the elderly. Forensic psychiatry. Appendices