A wide spectrum of contemporary psychiatry is covered in this authoritative text which promotes further understanding of current practice and looks ahead to the future of psychopharmacology. Chapters examine the many problems faced by the practicing psychiatrist, including the management of difficult behavior, alcoholism, puerperal mental disorders, schizophrenia and forensic psychiatry. The treatment of depressed patients with and without drugs, long-term drug therapy for schizophrenics, dealing with pain as a psychiatric symptom, rehabilitation and preventive psychiatry in old age are also discussed here, with a view to improving the service and solving the problems faced daily by psychiatrists.