Table of Contents

Andrew Elder & Jeremy Holmes: Introduction: The need for a new approach
Part 1 - In the Consulting Room
1: Sam Smith: In the consulting room
2: Richard Westcott: Body and mind
3: Brian Hurwitz: Biological and narrative time in clinical practice
4: Iona Heath: Mental illness, general practice, and society
Part 2 - Reflective Practice
5: Eia Asen: The difficult patient
6: Jane Milton: Stress, strain, and burnout: Support and supervision
7: Paul Sackin: Training for GPs
Part 3 - Mental Health Thinking in the Surgery
8: John Launer: The practice as an organisation
9: Hilary Graham & Robert Mayer: Systemic family practice in primary care
10: Mary Burd & Jan Wiener: Counsellors and therapists in primary care
Part 4 - Perspectives from Secondary Care
11: Maret Dymond, Lynne Murray & Peter Cooper: Post-natal depression
12: Ulrike Schmidt: Eating disorders
13: Christine Wright & Tom Burns: Management of serious mental illness
14: Jonathan Evans: Suicide, deliberate self-harm and severe depressive illness
15: Ilana Crome & Ed Day: Substance misuse
16: Adrian Feeney & David Nutt: Psychopharmacology
17: Gwen Adshead: Trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder
18: Glenys Parry & John Cape: Psychological therapies

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Commended in the Primary Health Care category of the 2003 BMA Medical Book Competition

Reviews

an enjoyable read with sufficient detail to entertain the interested psychiatrist or general practitioner or to be used as a training or as a reference work ... This is a very welcome additional resource to primary mental health care. Primary Care Psychiatry, Vol 9, Number 1 Buzzing with new ideas... grounded in evidence and well presented... The British Journal of General Practice Overall this is an excellent book. It is highly readable, well structured and manages to combine the experience of mental health problems in family practice with pragmatic management advice for busy primary care practitioners. It should be required reading for all psychiatric and GP trainees. Progress in Neurology and Psychiatry A comprehensive and unique addition to the literature. Doody's Journal