The textbook offers comprehensive understanding of the impact of cultural factors and differences on mental illness and its treatment.

Part I. Theoretical Background: 1. Cultural psychiatry in historical perspective; 2. Anthropology and psychiatry: a contemporary convergence for global mental health; 3. Suicide, violence and culture; 4. Psychology and cultural psychiatry; 5. Spirituality and cultural psychiatry; 6. Lifestyle medicine in psychiatry; 7. Globalisation; 8. Social media; 9. Telepsychiatry; 10. Ethnic inequalities and cultural capability framework in mental healthcare; Part II. Culture and Mental Health: 11. Psychopathology and the role of culture: an overview; 12. Developmental aspects of cultural psychiatry; 13. Explanatory models in psychiatry; 14. Culture-bound syndromes: past, current status and future; 15. Psychiatric epidemiology and its contributions to cultural psychiatry; 16. Acculturation and identity; 17. Cultural consonance; Part III. Culture and Mental Disorders: 18. Neurotic disorders: anxiety and fear related, dissociative and bodily distress disorders; 19. Schizophrenia and related psychoses; 20. Affective disorders: coloured by culture - why the pigment of depression is more than skin deep; 21. Substance misuse; 22. Culture and mental disorders: suicidal behaviour; 23. Personality disorders and culture; 24. Culture and obsessive-compulsive disorder; 25. Culture and eating disorders; 26. Childhood and adolescent psychiatric disorders; 27. Culture and schizophrenia; 28. Disorders of ageing across culture; Part IV. Theoretical Aspects of Management: 29. Traumascape: an ecological-cultural-historical model for extreme stress; 30. Sexual dysfunction across cultures; 31. Therapist-patient interactions and expectations; 32. Developing effective mental health services for multi-cultural societies; 33. Cross-cultural psychopharmarcotherapy; 34. Psychotherapy across cultures; 35. Psychological interventions; 36. Spiritual aspects of management; 37. Cultural aspects of suicide; Part V. Management with Special Groups: 38. Intellectual disabilities across cultures; 39. Child psychiatry across cultures; 40. Management of sexual dysfunction; 41. Transgenderism: cross cultural perspectives; 42. Refugee mental health: a wicked problem for the world to solve; 43. Working with elderly persons across cultures; 44. Working in liaison psychiatry; Part VI. Cultural Research and Training: 45. Psychiatric conditions embody distinct evolutionary and cultural signatures when compared with general medical conditions; 46. Globalization, social stressors and psychiatry; 47. Cultural psychiatry: past, present and future.