The beginning of life: pregnancy through preschool. School age, adolescence, especial issues of fevelopment, and adulthood. Aging, death, and bereavement. Genetics, anotamy, and biochemistry of behavior. Biological assessment of patients wiht psychiatric symptoms. Psychoanalytic theory defense mechaninsms. Learning theory. Clinical assessment of patients with behavioral sysptoms. Substage abuse. Normal sleep and sleep disorders. Schizophrenia and other psychotic disordres. Mood disorders. Anxiety, somatoform and factitious disorders and malingering. Cognitive, personality, dissociative, and eating disorders. Psychiatric disorders in children. Biologic therapies: psychopharmacology. Psychological therapies. The family, culture, and illness. Sexuality. Aggression and abuse. The physician-patient relationship. Phychosomatic medicine. Legal and ethical issues in medicine. Health care in the inited states. Epidemiology. Statistical analyses.