Part I. Introduction: 1. Classification of psychiatric disorders and their principal treatments; 2. The history of psychiatric therapies; Part II. Summary of Treatment Modalities in Psychiatric Disorders: 3. A critical assessment of methods and processes used to develop psychiatric drug treatments; 4. (a) The efficacy and safety of electroconvulsive therapy Dan 4. (b) Focal Brain Stimulation Approaches to Psychiatric Treatment; 5. The effectiveness of psychological treatments in psychiatry; 6. Educational Interventions; 7. Complementary and alternative medicine; 8. Complex interventions; Part III. Specific Treatments: Organic Disorders: 9. Delirium; 10. Management of behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia and acquired brain injury; 11. Pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatments for deficits in dementia; 12. Pharmacological treatment of psychosis and depression in neurological disease in older adults; Alcohol: 13. Psychological treatments of alcohol use disorders; 14. Pharmacotherapy of alcohol misuse, dependence and withdrawal; 15. Educational interventions for alcohol use disorders; 16. Complex interventions for alcohol use disorders; 17. Complementary and alternative medicine for alcohol misuse; Drug misuse; 18. Empirically-validated psychological therapies for drug dependence; 19. Treatment of stimulant dependence; 20. Treatment of opioid dependence; 21. Treatment of sedative-hypnotic dependence; 22. Treatment of cannabis dependence; 23. Treatment of nicotine dependence; 24. Treatment of co-occurring psychiatric and substance use disorders; Schizophrenia; 25. Pharmacological treatments for schizophrenia; 26. Psychological treatments for schizophrenia Peter; Mood disorders: 27. Psychopharmacology of mood disorders; 28. Efficacy of brain stimulation and neurosurgical procedures for treatment of mood disorders; 29. Psychotherapy for depression: current empirical status and future directions Scott; 30. Alternative treatments for mood disorders; Anxiety and neurotic disorders; 31. Treatment of generalized anxiety and somatoform disorders; 32. Panic disorder; 33. Specific Phobias and Agoraphobia; 34. Social phobia; 35. Obsessive-compulsive disorder; 36. Post-traumatic stress and adjustment disorders; Eating disorders: 37. Psychopharmacology of eating disorders; 38. Other somatic physical treatments and complex interventions for eating disorders; 39. Psychological treatments for eating disorders; 40. Educational interventions for eating disorders; 41. Alternative treatments for eating disorders; 42. Complex treatments for eating disorders; Personality Disorders: 43. Personality Disorder; 44. Other treatments for persistent disturbances of behaviour; Sexual and gender identity disorders: 45. Effectiveness of treatments of sexual disorders; 46. Disorders of gender identity; Child psychiatry: 47. Psychological treatments for children and adolescents; 48. Drugs and other physical treatments; 49. Educational interventions and alternative treatments; 50. Attachment insecurity and attachment disorder; 51. Feeding and sleeping disorders in infancy and early childhood; 52. Evaluating interventions for children with autism and intellectual disabilities; 53. ADHD and hyperkinetic disorder; 54. Oppositional defiant disorder and conduct disorder; 55. Treatment of depressive disorders in children and adolescents; 56. Treatment of psychoses in children and adolescents; 57. Anxiety disorders; 58. Treatment of eating disorders in children and adolescents; List of drug treatments and licences indications; Appendix I.; Appendix II. Key to effectiveness tables.