Public Health Aspects of Diagnosis and Classification of Mental and Behavioral Disorders: Refining the Research Agenda for DSM-5 and ICD-11 provides a comprehensive summary of ...

"Adapt or perish, now as ever, is Nature's inexorable imperative. " -H. G. Wells, Mind at the End of Its Tether (1946) Doctors are trained to treat people suffering from ...

Published on Behalf of the World Health Organization

The German version of this work has a long tradition, and this fourth edition is the first to see an English version. Its main feature is the international approach regarding ...

Medically unexplained somatic symptoms are problematic in psychiatry, primary care settings, and other clinical areas. The burden they impose on health-care systems constitutes ...

This book is a report of the findings of the International Study of Schizophrenia (ISoS), itself an outgrowth of several epidemiological studies coordinated by the World Health ...

This book makes a highly innovative contribution to overcoming the stigma and discrimination associated with mental illness – still the heaviest burden both for those afflicted ...

This book, first published in 1995, discusses the evidence behind changes in practice for psychiatry in the community.