The many pastoral caregivers encounter difficult psychiatric and psychological crises and acute situations in the course of their work. The handbook provides foundational psychiatric knowledge, including information on the development, prevalence, and consequences of psychosomatic disorders. It offers concise psychiatric knowledge on typical clinical pictures, including depression and affective disorders, suicidality, exhaustion and nervous breakdown, anxiety disorders, compulsions, dependency and impulse control disorders, psychotic disorders including delusional disorders, issues with sexual identity and preference, as well as trauma and abuse.