Foreword. Contributors Section I: Severe Personality Disorders. Foreword to Section I. Diagnostic controversies. Schizophrenia spectrum personality disorders. Cyclothymic, hyperthymic, and depressive temperaments as subaffective variants of mood disorders. Antiscocial personality disorder. Treatment of severe personality disorders. Afterword to section I. Section II: Brain, Behavior, and the Immune System. Foreword to Section II. Neural-Immune interactions. Effects of stress on cellular immune responses in animals. Stress and the immune system: human studies. The immune system and depression. Viruses, autoimmunity, and psychiatric disorder. Psychoneuroimmunology and HIV infection. Afterword to Section II. Section III: Anxiety Disorders. Foreword to Section III. Diagnostic issues in anxiety disorders. Pharmacotherapy of anxiety disorders. New developments in cognitive-behavioral treatment of anxiety disorders. Neurobiology of anxiety. New developments in treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder. Neurobiology of posttraumatic stress disorder. Afterword to Section III. Section IV: Concurrent Diagnoses. Foreword to Section IV. Schizophrenia and substance abuse. Anxiety disorders and substance abuse. Personality disorders and mood disorders. Eating disorders and substance abuse disorders. Mood disorders and medical illness. Mooddisorders and marital and family problems. Afterword to Section IV. Section V: Hospital Psychiatry. Comparative indications for brief and extended hospitalization. Brief hospitalization. Suicide, violence, and elopement: prediction, understanding, and management. Partial hospitalization. Managed mental health care. Hospital quality assurance and risk management. Afterword to Section V. Afterword. Index.
