Textbook of Psychiatry

Psychiatry is one of the major specialties of medicine, and is concerned with the diagnosis and treatment of the psychiatric disorders.

Table of Contents

 * /Diagnosis & Classification/
 * /Neurobiology of Psychiatric Disorders/
 * /Psychotic Disorders/
 * /Mood Disorders/
 * /Anxiety Disorders/
 * /Somatoform Disorders/
 * /Dissociative Disorders/
 * /Alcoholism and Psychoactive Substance Use Disorders/
 * /Personality Disorders/
 * /Sexual Disorders/
 * /Eating Disorders/
 * /Sleep Disorders/
 * /Disorders of Childhood & Adolescence/
 * /Dementia, Delirium, and Psychiatric Symptoms Secondary to General Medical Conditions/
 * /Psychopharmacology/
 * /Electroconvulsive Therapy and Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation/
 * /Psychotherapy for Medical Students/
 * /The Agitated/Violent Patient/
 * /Self-harm and suicide/
 * /Cross-Cultural Issues in Psychiatry/
 * /Forensic Psychiatry/

Editors and Contributors
Acknowledgments: A project of the Education Committee of the World Psychiatric Association
 * 1) Dan J. Stein, MD, PhD (dan.stein@uct.ac.za) is Professor and Chair of the Dept of Psychiatry & Mental Health at the University of Cape Town. - Primary Editor
 * 2) Catherine Maud (cmaud@iafrica.com) practices psychiatry in Durban, South Africa.
 * 3) Nicolina van der Merwe (nicolina.vandermerwe@undefinedgmail.com) is a medical student doing her Masters in Neuroscience at the University of Cape Town.
 * 4) Allan Tasman, MD, is Professor and Chair of the Dept of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at the University of Louisville School of Medicine. He is Chair of the Education Committee of the World Psychiatric Association.
 * 5) Konstantinos N. Fountoulakis (kfount@med.auth.gr) is Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, 3rd Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece - /Mood Disorders/
 * 6) Erik Simonsen, MD, Elsa Ronningstam, and Theodore Millon, PhD. - /Personality Disorders/
 * 7) Ronald Pies, MD is Professor of Psychiatry and Lecturer on Bioethics and Humanities at State University of New York Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, N.Y., USA; and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston MA, USA. - /Dementia, Delirium, and Psychiatric Symptoms Secondary to General Medical Conditions/
 * 8) Paul Summergrad, MD is Dr. Frances S. Arkin Professor of Psychiatry and Chairman, Department of Psychiatry; and Professor of Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He is also Psychiatrist-in-Chief, Tufts Medical Center, Boston. Massachusetts. - /Dementia, Delirium, and Psychiatric Symptoms Secondary to General Medical Conditions/
 * 9) Bruce McDermott, MD
 * 10) Arash Ansari MD and David N. Osser MD. - /Psychopharmacology/
 * 11) Roumen V. Milev, MD, PhD, FRCPsych(UK), FRCP(C). - /Electroconvulsive Therapy and Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation/
 * 12) S. Johnson MD/MSc, J Roberts MD, and R El-Mallakh MD. University of Louisville. - /The Agitated/Violent Patient/, /Self-harm and suicide/
 * 13) Robert Kohn, MD
 * 14) Julio Arboleda-Flórez is Professor Emeritus at Queen’s University, Canada - /Forensic Psychiatry/
 * 15) Henk Temmingh, M Med (Psychiatry) is a Consultant Psychiatrist in the Dept of Psychiatry and Mental Health, University of Cape Town, South Africa. - /Alcoholism and Psychoactive Substance Use Disorders/
 * 16) Stuart Thomas, MBBS, FRANZCP, consultant psychiatrist in private practice, Melbourne, Australia
 * 17) Rachel Ojserkis, B.A. is a research assistant at The Columbia Center for Eating Disorders. 1051 Riverside Drive, Unit 98, New York, NY 10032. http://www.columbiacenterforeatingdisorders.org ojserki@undefinedpi.cpmc.columbia.edu - /Eating Disorders/
 * 18) Evelyn Attia, MD is Director of The Center for Eating Disorders at New York-Presbyterian Hospital and The New York State Psychiatric Institute. Dr. Attia is a Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College and Columbia University Medical Center. ea12@undefinedcolumbia.edu - /Eating Disorders/
 * 19) Christer Allgulander, MD. Karolinska Institute, Department of Clinical Neuroscience. Stockholm, Sweden. Christer.Allgulander@undefinedki.se - /Diagnosis & Classification/
 * 20) Adrian Preda, M.D. is a Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at UC Irvine and UC Irvine Neuropsychiatric Center. apreda@undefineduci.edu - /Psychotic Disorders/
 * 21) Lisa Page. King’s College London, Institute of Psychiatry, Dept. Psychological Medicine.  Weston Education Centre, 10 Cutcombe Road, London, SE5 9AZ. - /Somatoform Disorders/
 * 22) David R. Spiegel, MD. Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Eastern Virginia Medical School.  Norfolk, Virginia, United States of America. - /Dissociative Disorders/
 * 23) Kapil Chopra, MBBS.  Kokil Chopra, MBBS. Kevin Lamm, MD. Margarita Somova, MD. Grant Yoder, DO. - /Dissociative Disorders/
 * 24) Resident Physicians.  Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, Virginia, United States of America. - /Dissociative Disorders/
 * 25) Brett McDermott and Tony Jaffa. - /Disorders of Childhood & Adolescence/
 * 26) Durga Prasad Bestha, MBBS. Vishal Madaan, MD. Daniel R. Wilson, MD, PhD. - /Psychotherapy for Medical Students/
 * 27) Anthony Koller, BSc., MBBCh is a psychiatric registrar in the Dept of Psychiatry & Mental Health at the University of Cape Town. - /Sleep Disorders/