This work brings some current issues in mental health discussed in congresses and academies and about which more emphasis needs to be given, to break many of the taboos of psychiatry so that knowledge can be disseminated more widely. Its language is adequate to any reader interested in this field. Here are the assumpts: - Semiology in Psychiatry - Epidemiology of depressive disorder - Psychiatric surgery in O.C.T. - Use of Aripiprazole in schizophrenia - Hypersexuality - The surgical-psychiatric patient.