Digby Tantam is Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist and Psychotherapist for Sheffield Health Care NHS Foundation Trust, an Emeritus Professor at the University of Sheffield, and Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge. He is a chartered psychologist, and a fellow of the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy and the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy. Educated at Oxford, Harvard, Stanford, London, and the Open Universities, and with a doctorate from the Institute of Psychiatry in London, he started a clinic for adolescents and adults with autism spectrum disorders in 1980 that has continued ever since.

• 1. Information gathering. 2. Developing a narrative: Mr Daniels. 3. Assessing suicidal risk: Arthur Wrigley. 4. An overdose: Mary Brown. 5. Fear of becoming fat: Jane Morgan. 6. A domestic dispute: Mr Rogers. 7. A blackout at work: Mr Pillay. 8. A solicitor's request: Mr Loyola. 9. Fear of going out: Mrs Reiss. 10. I have no longer a mind of my own: George Forrester. 11. My house is bugged: Mr Butler. 12. A panic attack: Mrs Woolfe. 13. I've felt different all my life: Miss Jordash. 14. A poor historian: Mr David Stone.

Digby Tantam is Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist and Psychotherapist for Sheffield Health Care NHS Foundation Trust, an Emeritus Professor at the University of Sheffield, and Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge. He is a chartered psychologist, and a fellow of the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy and the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy. Educated at Oxford, Harvard, Stanford, London, and the Open Universities, and with a doctorate from the Institute of Psychiatry in London, he started a clinic for adolescents and adults with autism spectrum disorders in 1980 that has continued ever since.

• 1. Information gathering. 2. Developing a narrative: Mr Daniels. 3. Assessing suicidal risk: Arthur Wrigley. 4. An overdose: Mary Brown. 5. Fear of becoming fat: Jane Morgan. 6. A domestic dispute: Mr Rogers. 7. A blackout at work: Mr Pillay. 8. A solicitor's request: Mr Loyola. 9. Fear of going out: Mrs Reiss. 10. I have no longer a mind of my own: George Forrester. 11. My house is bugged: Mr Butler. 12. A panic attack: Mrs Woolfe. 13. I've felt different all my life: Miss Jordash. 14. A poor historian: Mr David Stone.

Digby Tantam is Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist and Psychotherapist for Sheffield Health Care NHS Foundation Trust, an Emeritus Professor at the University of Sheffield, and Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge. He is a chartered psychologist, and a fellow of the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy and the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy. Educated at Oxford, Harvard, Stanford, London, and the Open Universities, and with a doctorate from the Institute of Psychiatry in London, he started a clinic for adolescents and adults with autism spectrum disorders in 1980 that has continued ever since.

• 1. Information gathering. 2. Developing a narrative: Mr Daniels. 3. Assessing suicidal risk: Arthur Wrigley. 4. An overdose: Mary Brown. 5. Fear of becoming fat: Jane Morgan. 6. A domestic dispute: Mr Rogers. 7. A blackout at work: Mr Pillay. 8. A solicitor's request: Mr Loyola. 9. Fear of going out: Mrs Reiss. 10. I have no longer a mind of my own: George Forrester. 11. My house is bugged: Mr Butler. 12. A panic attack: Mrs Woolfe. 13. I've felt different all my life: Miss Jordash. 14. A poor historian: Mr David Stone.