Much gratitude is due to the distinguished editors for bringing us the book, the many first-class authors for contributing their chapters and Oxford University Press for their excellent production. The book will, in my view, continue to occupy a dominant place in the international medical literature and, at least for the foreseeable future, could well turn out to be the most widely used and influential reference work of its kind in psychiatry.
John R. Geddes is Professor of Epidemiological Psychiatry and Head of the Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Nancy C. Andreasen is Professor of Psychiatry and Andrew H. Woods Chair of Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA, USA.
Guy M. Goodwin is Senior Research Fellow, Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.