Part I. Conceptual Basis and Overarching Themes: 1. What is primary care mental health? Linda Gask, Tony Kendrick, Robert Peveler and Carolyn A. Chew-Graham; 2. The epidemiology of mental illness Laura Thomas and Glyn Lewis; 3. A sociological view of mental health and illness Anne Rogers and David Pilgrim; 4. The patient and service user perspective Linda Gask and Sue Collinson; 5. Primary care mental health in low- and middle-income countries Mohan Isaac, Oye Gureje and Athula Sumathipala; 6. Diagnosis and classification of mental illness: a view from primary care Linda Gask, Christopher Dowrick, Michael Klinkman and Oye Gureje; Part II. Clinical issues: 7. Depression Tony Kendrick, Jane Gunn and Andre Tylee; 8. Suicide prevention: identification, intervention and mitigation of risk Alys Cole King and Siobhan O'Neill; 9. Anxiety Bruce Arroll and Tony Kendrick; 10. Medically unexplained symptoms Christopher Dowrick and Marianne Rosendal; 11. Mental health problems in older people Eugene Tang, Carolyn A. Chew-Graham and Louise Robinson; 12. Mental health and long-term physical conditions Peter A. Coventry and Stuart W. Mercer; 13. Perinatal mental health Debbie Sharp; 14. Common child and adolescent mental health problems Roz Shafran, Anna Coughtrey and Isobel Heyman; 15. Psychosis Helen Lester and Irwin Nazareth; 16. Emergencies in primary care Tony Kendrick and Helen Lester; 17. Drug use disorders Martyn Hull and Ed Day; 18. Management of alcohol problems Fiona Hamilton and Helen Lester; 19. Eating disorders Katie Lang and Ulrike Schmidt; 20. Physical health of people with mental illness Richard Holt, David Shiers and Robert Peveler; 21. Ethnic minorities Waquas Waheed and Carolyn A. Chew-Graham; 22. Asylum seekers and refugees Angela Burnett; 23. Sexual problems Michael King; 24. Mental health in offenders and prison populations Richard Byng and Andrew Forrester; Part III. Policy and Practice: 25. Public mental health Jonathan Campion; 26. The role of the primary care team Mark Haddad; 27. Improving access to care Simon Gilbody, Tony Kendrick and Linda Gask; 28. Collaborative care and stepped care: effective strategies for managing common mental disorders David Richards, Jacqueline J. Hill, Simon Gilbody, Peter Coventry and Linda Gask; 29. Psychological therapies Francis Cole, Karina Lovell, David Ekers and Linda Gask; Part IV. Reflective Practice: 30. Teaching and learning about mental health Linda Gask, Barry Lewis and David Goldberg; 31. Mental health research in primary care Tony Kendrick, Robert Peveler, Carolyn A. Chew-Graham, Linda Gask and Michael Moore; 32. Individual treatment decisions: guidelines and clinical judgement Tony Kendrick; 33. General practitioners and mental health Henry Allberry and Clare Gerada.