Modeling his text on 1977's Where There is No Doctor , Patel (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK) offers a manual that simplifies psychiatric language and practice for general health care workers in the developing world. He offers diagnostic and treatment advice, presenting chapters on medically unexplained systems, problems arising from loss and violence, problems in childhood and adolescence, and integration of mental health care into other settings. Distributed in the US by Balogh International. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)