"International Review of Psychiatry", Volume 2, is the collaboration of American Psychiatric Press Inc. (APPI), and the worldwide network of eminent specialists of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA). This volume addresses issues that are increasingly affecting the practice of psychiatry and the lives of patients. Psychiatric practice is becoming more multicultural as a result of migration, tourism and the lifting of barriers to services by the World Trade Organisation. To be truly international, psychiatrists need a vantage point where they can view the panorama of international psychiatry. "International Review of Psychiatry", Volume 2, provides that vantage point.