This is an important book for all those who work in the clinical practice of Mental Health. Its author has been attending to mental health emergencies for 37 years in a General Hospital ward. Think, study, and teach passionately about this task. That is why he tells us: "This is the book I would have needed to read before my first watch. It is also the one I would like to share with fellow psychiatrists, social workers and psychologists, and with all those who are interested in this topic, as an excuse to reflect on what we do and what we do not do with urgencies and emergencies. It is an attempt to put into text the teachings that I received during these years from patients in crisis and that I have so often shared with enthusiastic disciples."

Then he clarifies that he is going to develop what an emergency and emergency clinician in mental health is, how he works and how he is trained and he is going to explain that this condition can also be exercised by social workers, doctors and psychologists and that it does not require specific training or training as a psychoanalyst, but it does require a theory of the subject and some essential ideas to sustain a way and an ethic of work. that he transmits in this book. In this way, this is an Antimanual in two senses: 1) because what it transmits, by its essence, does not enter into the form of protocol or procedure or decision tree characteristic of manuals and 2) because it subverts the traditional manual. On the other hand, it tries to critically recover the knowledge of the history of psychiatry and "be a manual" in the sense of "being at hand", accompanying, stimulating and facilitating the work.