This Handbook is the comprehensive, indispensible guide to the practice of psychiatry for health professionals of all levels of experience. Fully updated with the latest research and legislature, it provides practical guidance on diagnosis, management, and best practice by subspecialty.

• 1: Thinking about psychiatry


• 2: Psychiatric assessment


• 3: Symptoms of psychiatric illness


• 4: Neuropsychiatry


• 5: Schizophrenia and related psychoses


• 6: Depressive illness


• 7: Bipolar illness


• 8: Anxiety and stress-related disorders


• 9: Eating and impulse-control disorders


• 10: Sleep-wake disorders


• 11: Reproductive psychiatry, sexual health, and gender related issues


• 12: Personality disorders


• 13: Old age psychiatry


• 14: Substance misuse


• 15: Child and adolescent psychiatry


• 16: Forensic psychiatry


• 17: Intellectual disability


• 18: Liaison psychiatry


• 19: Psychotherapy


• 20: Legal issues


• 21: Transcultural psychiatry


• 22: Therapeutic issues


• 23: Difficult and urgent situations


• 24: Useful resources


• 25: ICD-10/DSM-5 index

Dr Semple graduated in Medicine from Edinburgh University in 1992 and worked in the Neurosciences Department at Dundee Royal Infirmary before starting Psychiatry training on the Lothian Training Scheme. Subsequently he obtained a Wellcome Research Fellowship and afterwards was appointed as a Lecturer in Psychiatry and Honorary Specialist Registrar based at the Royal Edinburgh Hospital. During that time he co-wrote the first edition of the Oxford Handbook of Psychiatry, a text he continues to co-write and co-edit with Dr Roger Smyth. Currently working as a Consultant in General Adult Psychiatry at University Hospital Hairmyres, East Kilbride and an Honorary Fellow of the Division of Psychiatry at Edinburgh, he continues to pursue his clinical and research interests in the areas of neuropsychopharmacology, the management of mood disorders, ECT, disorders of sleep and wakefulness, hallucinations, and psychosis. He was elected to Fellowship of the Royal College of Psychiatrists in 2016.
Dr Roger Smyth was born and educated in Belfast, Northern Ireland and came to Scotland to study Medicine at the University of Edinburgh. He trained in Psychiatry in South East Scotland. Together with a group of friends and colleagues he wrote the first edition of the Oxford Handbook of Psychiatry. Dr Smyth took up his first Consultant Psychiatrist post in St John's Hospital, Livingston in 2004, and moved to the Department of Psychological Medicine at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh in 2006 to specialise in Liaison Psychiatry.