Psychiatry: Past, Present, and Prospect provides a set of perspectives written in essay form from eminent contributors, covering the major developments in psychiatry over the last 40 years.
Highly commended at the BMA Medical Book Awards 2015
1. Neuroscience ; 2. Psychiatric genetics ; 3. Clinical research with a focus on schizophrenia ; 4. Epidemiology and causality ; 5. Cultural psychiatry ; 6. Community psychiatry ; 7. Psychiatry in developing countries ; 8. Mental health law ; 9. Psychiatric ethics ; 10. Diagnosis and classification ; 11. Consultation-liaison psychiatry ; 12. Child and adolescent psychiatry ; 13. Psychiatry of the elderly ; 14. Forensic psychiatry ; 15. Psychological trauma ; 16. The addictions ; 17. Personality disorders ; 18. Psychopharmacology ; 19. Convulsive therapies ; 20. Cognitive-behaviour therapy ; 21. Psychodynamic psychiatry