"The goal of this book is to foster professional competence and ensure the highest quality care to those with mental illness. An eclectic, multidisciplinary approach has been its hallmark; thus, biological, psychological, and sociological factors are equitably presented as they affect the person in health and disease"--Provided by publisher

Preceded by: Kaplan & Sadock's synopsis of psychiatry / Benjamin James Sadock, Virginia Alcott Sadock. 10th ed. 2007.

Neural sciences -- Contributions of the psychosocial sciences -- Contributions of the sociocultural sciences -- Theories of personality and psychopathology -- Examination and diagnosis of the psychiatric patient -- Classification in psychiatry -- Schizophrenia spectrum and other psychotic disorders -- Mood disorders -- Anxiety disorders -- Obsessive-compulsive and related disorders -- Trauma- and stressor-related disorders -- Dissociative disorders -- Psychosomatic medicine -- Chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia -- Feeding and eating disorders -- Normal sleep and sleep-wake disorders -- Human sexuality and sexual dysfunctions -- Gender dysphoria -- Disruptive, impulse-control, and conduct disorders -- Substance use and addictive disorders -- Neurocognitive disorders -- Personality disorders -- Emergency psychiatric medicine -- Complementary and alternative medicine in psychaitry -- Other conditions that may be a focus of clinical attention -- Physical and sexual abuse of adults -- Psychiatry and reproductive medicine -- Psychotherapies -- Psychopharmacological treatment -- Brain stimulation methods -- Child psychiatry -- Adulthood -- Geriatric psychiatry -- End-of-life issues -- Public psychiatry -- Forensic psychiatry and ethics in psychiatry -- World aspects of psychiatry.