Book Cover -- Title -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Classification of mental disorders -- Models of mental disorder -- Types of therapeutic approaches -- Chapter summary -- Somatic therapies -- Electro-convulsive shock therapy (ECT) -- Psychosurgery -- Other somatic approaches -- Chapter summary -- Psychodynamic therapies -- Freudian psychoanalysis -- Modern psychodynamic approaches -- Applicability and evaluation -- Behavioural therapies -- Behaviour therapies -- Behaviour modification techniques -- Applicability and evaluation -- Chapter summary -- Cognitive and cognitive-behavioural therapies -- Different therapeutic approaches -- Applicability and evaluation -- Chapter summary -- Humanistic and socio-cultural therapies -- Humanistic approaches -- Social psychiatry -- Applicability and evaluation -- Chapter summary -- Research methods in atypical psychology -- Different research methods -- Chapter summary -- Evaluation of therapy -- Input problems -- Process problems -- Outcome problems -- Evaluation studies -- The equivalence paradox and negative outcomes -- Chapter summary -- Ethical issues -- The Mental Health Act and its implications -- Ethical issues in diagnosis -- Ethical issues in treatment -- Chapter summary -- Conclusions: clinical practice -- Care in the community -- The case against therapy -- Chapter summary -- Study aids -- Key research summary -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index.