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PREFACE There are flourishing medical colleges and expanding medical profession in our country, so is the growing mental illness globally. In this scenario, these mentally ill patients visit traditional faith healers or multi-disciplinary physicians with several complains most of which are somatic. It becomes our duties as medical professionals to prevent those patients with unnecessary battery of investigations and long-term use of benzodiazepines. In view of this scenario, it becomes very important to train our MBBS graduates for handling common psychiatric illnesses in periphery and local hospitals. We have taken special care to meet the needs of graduate students and at the same time the need for the newer postgraduate students have also been taken care of. This book is organized into chapters and their sub-chapters, which are arranged as per International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10). A great care has been taken to include all topics needed for students of MBBS and MD Psychiatry. Commonly needed chapters like phenomenology, psychiatric emergencies and non-pharmacological treatment are specially focussed unlike other books available in the market. The language used in this book has been kept as simple as possible. In addition, we understand the need of competitive entrance examinations for medical students. The beginner MBBS students who are more inclined toward multiple choice questions need to be well versed with it. So, we have included multiple choice questions and case-based uestions in this book that are generally asked in MBBS/MD entrance examination. The production of this book has been a team work. We appreciate all our authors and contributors who have dedicated their labour in bringing out this book. It was an exciting time diting this book. I am extremely thankful to Dr Anoop Krishna Gupta and Dr Utkarsh Karki for helping me editing this book. They have done justice with their job and in the absence of that the substantiation of this book would be barely possible. JN Vyas