The psychological aspects of mental disorder are of fundamental importance and interest for students and practitioners of psychiatry and clinical psychology, social workers, nursing staff and occupational therapists. This edited volume is a review of psychological processes and research as relevant to psychiatric practice with a cognitive and behavioural orientation which relects current trends in clinical psychology. The contributors, all psychologists, have each written about the psychology of an area which roughly corresponds to a psychiatric condition or problem area - thus the psychology which is most appropriate to psychiatric practice has been brought to the forefront. They have adopted an empirical approach so that wherever possible conclusions or theories are supported by experimental results.