It is a milestone in the world of Indian psychiatric literature, admirably filling a very important vacant slot. Contains the distillate of life-time experience and felt need of a senior Professor of psychiatry and a Teacher par-excellence, who has worked across the world. This is a brief compilation of all the relevant information usually needed for day-to-day psychiatric evaluation in adult psychiatry. This compilation helps the trainees to get all the important issues relating to examination and treatment planning along with their duties and obligation in a comprehensive manner. Helps to equipped with running clinical oral questions. Alongside with the practical clinical examination procedure, the relevant theoretical issues are provided in the ‘appendix’ to offer a comprehensive insight about the clinical items. Presents comprehensive as well as ‘ready-to-use’ modules of evaluation of patients who present with mental symptoms.