Presenting current research and theories, this text aims to be sensitive to both cultural and gender issues. It incorporates discussions of how people's gender/cultural background may influence whether their behaviours are labelled abnormal as well as the effectiveness of subsequent treatment.

Part 1 Understanding and treating abnormality: looking at abnormality
assessing and diagnozing abnormality
approaching and treating abnormality. Part 2 Disorders of anxiety, mood, psychosis and personality: anxiety disorders
mood disorders
the schizophrenias
dissociative and somatoform disorders
personality disorders. Part 3 Developmental and health-related disorders: childhood disorders
eating disorders
sexual disorders
substance use disorders
personality, behaviour and the body
the cognitive disorders - dementia, delirium and amnesia. Part 4 The methods, ethics and policy of abnormal psychology: the research endeavour
society and mental health.