The book ?A Short Textbook of PSYCHIATRY? gives comprehensive information about psychiatric disorders, treatment and all its allied aspects in a reachable manner. This book contains 21 chapters which come up with significant changes that have been made in almost all the chapters. It serves as a guide to postgraduate psychiatry students, nursing students, psychology and psychiatric social work students, occupational therapy and physiotherapy students, general medical practitioners and also physicians and health professionals in India and some other countries. The first two chapters discusses on diagnosis and classification in psychiatry, history of psychiatry and examination. Moving on to further chapters, a detailed discussion on several disorders such as organic mental disorders, psychoactive substance, schizophrenia, mood disorders, neurotic, stress-related and somatoform disorders, disorders of adult personality and behaviour, sexual disorders sleep disorder, eating disorders, etc are discussed. The treatments involved in psychiatry are also explained. This book also contains a separate chapter which discusses on ethical issues and community psychiatry.