Preface; Part I. The Social, Genetic and Developmental Context: 1. Surviving their lives: women's mental health in context Jennie Williams and Gilli Watson; 2. Ethnic and cultural effects on mental healthcare for women Dawn Edge and Dinesh Bhugra; 3. Women as caregivers Peter V. Rabins; 4. Maternal caregiving, oxytocin and mental illness Kathryn M. Abel and Alya Elmadih; 5. Genetic, epigenetic and gene-environment interactions: impact on the pathogenesis of mental illnesses in women Anthony P. Auger; 6. Developmental disorders in girls: focus on autism spectrum disorders Bernice Knight, Peter Carpenter and Dheeraj Rai; 7. Pubertal development and the emergence of the gender gap in affective disorders: a developmental and evolutionary synthesis Nicholas B. Allen, Melissa D. Latham, Anna Barrett, Lisa Sheeber and Betsy Davis; Part II. Hormonal and Reproductive Effects: 8. The effects of hormones on the female brain across the lifespan Michael C. Craig, Ester di Giacomo and Carmine M. Pariante; 9. Sexual, reproductive and antenatal care of women with mental illness Angelika Wieck and Kathryn M. Abel; 10. Mood, anxiety and obsessive compulsive disorders in pregnancy and the postpartum period: phenomenology and epidemiology Simone N. Vigod, Anne Buist and Meir Steiner; 11. Pharmacological treatment of mental health problems in pregnancy and lactation Angelika Wieck and Margareta Reis; Part III. Violence, Self-Harm and Substance Misuse in Women: 12. Borderline personality disorder: sex differences Andrew M. Chanen and Katherine Thompson; 13. Women offenders and mental health Sandra Flynn, Naomi Humber, Annie Bartlett and Jenny Shaw; 14. Domestic violence and women's mental health Roxane Agnew-Davies; 15. Women and addiction Sally Marlow and Emily Finch; Part IV. Depression, Anxiety and Related Disorders: 16. Body image disorders in women Serafino G. Mancuso, Andrea Phillipou, Susan L. Rossell and David J. Castle; 17. Post-traumatic stress disorder in women Darryl Wade, Susan Fletcher, Jessica Carty and Mark Creamer; 18. Anxiety disorders in women Kimberly A. Yonkers, Heather Howell, Katherine Sevar and David J. Castle; 19. Depression: special issues in women John Kelly and Timothy G. Dinan; 20. Anxiety and depression in women in old age Robert C. Baldwin and Jane Garner; Part V. Psychotic Disorders in Women: 21. Bipolar disorders: special issues for women Shaila Misri, Jasmin Abizadeh and Arjun Nanda; 22. Women and schizophrenia Kathryn M. Abel, Jill M. Goldstein, Nicky Stanley and David J. Castle; 23. Treating women with schizophrenia Shubulade Smith and Fiona Gaughran; 24. Psychotic disorders in women in later life Eleanor Curran, Nicola T. Lautenschlager and David J. Castle; 25. Dementia in women Cynthia A. Munro and Susan W. Lehmann; Index.