Includes bibliographical references and index.

The beginning of life: pregnancy through preschool -- School age, adolescence, special issues of development, and adulthood -- Aging, death, and bereavement -- Genetics, anatomy, and biochemistry of behavior -- Biological assessment of patients with psychiatric symptoms -- Psychoanalytic theory and defense mechanisms -- Learning theory -- Clinical assessment of patients with behavioral symptoms -- Substance-related disorders -- Normal sleep and sleep disorders -- Schizophrenia spectrum and other psychotic disorders -- Depressive disorders and bipolar and related disorders -- Anxiety disorders, somatic disorders, and related conditions -- Neurocognitive, personality, dissociative, and eating disorders -- Psychiatric disorders in children -- Biologic therapies: psychopharmacology -- Psychological therapies -- The family, culture, and illness -- Sexuality -- Aggression and abuse -- The physician-patient relationship -- Psychosomatic medicine -- Legal and ethical issues in medicine -- Health care in the United States -- Medical epidemiology -- Statistical analyses.