List of contributors; Foreword; Preface Marsal Sanches and Jair C. Soares; 1. Introduction Marsal Sanches and Jair C. Soares; 2. The psychiatric interview Dean J. Atkinson and Amanda Helminiak; 3. Psychopathology and the mental status examination Marsal Sanches; 4. Classifications and the diagnostic process in psychiatry Marcelo Bruno Generoso and Marsal Sanches; 5.
Neurobiology of mental disorders Karen Horn, Anita Barrera, Abdul Haseeb and Rodrigo Machado-Vieira; 6. Psychosocial theories and their implication for psychiatry Claudia Lex and Thomas D. Meyer; 7. General aspects of psychopharmacology Grace S. Pham and Sanjay J. Mathew; 8. Neurostimulation treatments Luis A. Wische-Fernandez and Salih Selek; 9.
Ethico-legal considerations in psychiatry Edward Poe; 10. Transcultural aspects of mental health care Syed Shahzeb Ayaz and Ali Abbas Asghar-Ali; 11. Child and adolescent psychiatry Cristian Patrick Zeni and Priscilla Granja Machado; 12. Principles of geriatric sychiatry Antonio L Teixeira and Jennifer R. Gatchel; 13. Reproductive psychiatry Julia N. Riddle, Margo Nathan, Riah Patterson and Anne Ruminjo; 14. Psychomotor agitation Olusegun Adebisi Popoola and Nidal MoukaddamI; 15.
The suicidal patient Ryan E Lawrence; 16. Depressive disorders Carolina Olmos and Joao Quevedo; 17. Bipolar disorders Marsal Sanches and Jair C. Soares; 18. Psychotic disorders Olaoluwa Okusaga and Gabriela Austgen; 19. Anxiety disorders Grace Kim, Vaishali Tirumalaraju and Sudhakar Selvaraj; 20. Obsessive-compulsive disorder Jordan T. Stiede, Emily R.
Strouphauer, Erika S. Trent, Sameer A. Sheth, Nisha Giridharan, Wayne K. Goodman, Andrew D. Wiese and Eric A. Storch; 21. Post-traumatic stress disorder: an update on diagnosis, etiology, and treatment John M. Bouras; 22.
Borderline personality disorder Marcos S. Croci, Marcelo J. A. A. Brañas, Steve Conway, Julia Jurist and Lois W. Choi-Kain; 23. Antisocial personality disorder Morgan T. Deal and Juan J.
Sosa; 24. Other personality disorders Maria Carolina Pedalino Pinheiro and Carolina Olmos; 25. Eating disorders Carrie J. McAdams; 26. Alcohol use disorder Michael Weaver and Heather Webber; 27. Other substance use disorders Thanh Thuy Truong; 28. Autistic spectrum disorders Taiwo T. Babatope, Antonio F.
Pagán, Caroline W. McCool, Natalie R. Parks, Nermin Koch, Laura M. Welch and Parnaz Daghighi; 29. Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) Cesar A. Sotullo; 30. Delirium and other medical conditions presenting with psychiatric symptoms Silvia Hafliger; 31. Dementia Jeffrey McBride and Lokesh Shahani; 32.
Psychiatric care of the medical patient: neuroleptic malignant syndrome and serotonin syndrome Lindsey S. Pershern and Robert J Boland; Appendix; Index.