This Work Provides A Set Of Perspectives Written In Essay Form From Eminent Contributors, Covering The Major Developments In Psychiatry Over The Last 40 Years. Psychiatry And Neuroscience -- Past, Present And Future Of Psychiatric Genetics -- Fifty Years Of Applied Clinical Research: Schizophrenia As An Example -- Social Science And Psychiatry, And The Causes Of Mental Disorders -- The History Of Cultural Psychiatry In The Last Half-century -- History And Development Of Social Psychiatry -- Psychiatry In Developed And Developing Countries -- Fifty Years Of Mental Health Legislation: Paternalism, Bound And Unbound -- The Ethical Dimension In Psychiatry -- Defining And Classifying Mental Illness -- From Alienist To Collaborator: The Twisting Road To Consultation-liaison Psychiatry. Child And Adolescent Psychopathology: Past Scientific Achievements And Future Challenges -- Psychiatry Of Old Age -- The Forensic Psychiatric Specialty: From The Birth To The Subliming -- Trauma And Psychiatry -- Psychiatry And The Addictions -- Personality Disorders -- Psychopharmacology -- Convulsive And Non-convulsive Treatments In Psychiatry -- Cognitive Theory And Therapy: Past, Present, And Future -- Psychodynamic Psychiatry-rise, Decline, Revival. Edited By Sidney Bloch, Stephen A. Green, Jeremy Holmes. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.