CONTENTS -- AUTHOR'S APPOINTMENTS -- FOREWORD -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS AND CONFLICT OF INTEREST DECLARATION -- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS -- 1 INTRODUCTION -- 2 DIAGNOSIS AND DEFINITIONS -- 3 PRESENTATION TO CLINICIANS -- 4 PREVALENCE AND EPIDEMIOLOGY -- 5 ETIOLOGY -- 6 CLINICAL COURSE AND PROGNOSIS -- 7 PHENOMENOLOGY AND SOCIAL CONSEQUENCES -- 8 THE LIVED EXPERIENCE -- 9 FUNCTIONAL ('CONVERSION DISORDER' OR 'PSYCHOGENIC') TICS -- 10 COMORBID DISORDERS AND SYMPTOMATOLOGY -- 11 STEREOTYPIC MOVEMENT DISORDER -- 12 SYMPTOMS AND PATTERNS -- 13 TICS IN OTHER MEDICALCONDITIONS -- 14 NEUROPSYCHOLOGY -- 15 INTERVENTIONS AND TREATMENT -- 16 WORKING WITH SCHOOLS (ADVOCACY) -- 17 WORKING WITH FAMILIES -- 18 PEER RELATIONSHIPS ANDTEASING/BULLYING -- 19 CONTROVERSIES -- 20REFRACTORY CASES -- 21 SERVICE PROVISION: A FEW CONSIDERATIONS -- 22 SUPPORT GROUPS -- 23 TIC DISORDERS AND THE LAW -- 24 TOURETTE SYNDROME, EMPLOYMENTAND INSURANCE -- 25 AND NOW FOR SOMETHINGCOMPLETELY DIFFERENT -- 26 SOME PROBLEMS TICS CAN CAUSEFOR OTHERS -- 27 CODA -- Appendix 1: How Accurate is Information on the Internet? -- Appendix 2: Then and Now -- APPENDIX 3: Web Resources -- APPENDIX 4: Publications of the TIC Consortium -- APPENDIX 5: Stereotypy Severity Scale -- APPENDIX 6: Stereotypic Movement Disorder - a Primer forTeachers -- APPENDIX 7: Comments on the American PracticeParameters on Tic Disorders (Murphy et al.2013) -- INDEX.