Psychiatric history and mental state examination -- The psychiatric history -- The mental state examination -- Mini mental state examination -- Assessment of an eating disorder -- Alcohol history -- Assessment of suicide risk -- Differential diagnosis -- The anxious patient -- The depressed patient -- The elated patient -- The hallucinating patient -- The panicking patient -- The patient with obsessions and compulsions -- The thin patient, the patient who overeats -- The unresponsive patient.

Adult psychiatric disorders -- Introduction to adult psychiatry -- Old age psychiatry -- Abnormal grief reaction -- Acute stress disorder -- Adjustment disorder -- Agoraphobia -- Anorexia nervosa -- Bipolar affective disorder -- Bulimia nervosa -- Chronic fatigue syndrome -- Deliberate self harm -- Delirium -- Dementia -- Depression -- Other depressive syndromes -- Dissociative conversion disorders -- Epilepsy -- Generalized anxiety disorder -- Huntingtons disease -- Kleinefelters syndrome -- Motor neuron disease -- Multiple sclerosis -- Obsessions and compulsions -- Parkinsons disease -- Personality disorders -- Postnatal blues -- Postnatal depression -- Post traumatic stress disorder -- Premenstrual syndrome -- Psychosexual disorders -- Puerperal psychosis -- Schizophrenia -- Social phobia -- Somatoform disorders -- Specific phobia -- Substance misuse -- Drugs and the law -- Substance misuse : alcohol -- Wernickes encephalopathy -- Korsakoffs psychosis -- Suicide -- Syphilis -- Wilsons disease.

Child psychiatric disorders -- Introduction -- Attention deficit disorder -- Childhood autism -- Conduct disorders -- Behavioural -hyperkinetic disorder -- Elimination disorders- enuresis -- Elimination disorders- encopresis -- Learning disability -- Other child psychiatric conditions -- Truanting -- School refusal -- Emotional disorders -- Sleep disorders -- Child abuse -- Physical treatments -- Introduction -- Antidepressants -- Serotonin reuptake inhibitors -- Trycyclic antidepressants -- Inhibitors of monoamine oxidates -- Antipsychotics -- Anxiolytics -- CBT and psychological therapies -- Cpa and the multidisciplinary team -- Cns stimulant medications -- Electroconvulsive therapy -- Mood stabilizers -- Lithium -- Sodium valproate -- Carbamazepine -- Serious adverse effects of drugs -- Acute dystonic reactions -- Clozapine -- Lithium toxicity -- Monoamineoxidase inhibitors -- Neuroleptic malignant syndrome -- Treatment of psychiatric emergencies -- The acutely confused patient -- The acutely intoxicated patient -- The patient not eating or drinking -- The patient who has taken an overdose -- Suicidal patient/ deliberate self harm -- The violent and abusive patient.