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| MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL HANDBOOK OF GENERAL HOSPITAL PSYCHIATRY
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Fifth Edition
By
Theodore Stern, MD, Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; Psychiatrist and Chief, Psychiatric Consultation Service, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
Gregory Fricchione, MD, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Ned Cassem, MD, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Chief, Department of Psychiatry, Boston, MA
Michael Jellinek, MD, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
Jerrold Rosenbaum, MD, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
Description
Written by one of the premier psychiatry departments in the world, this "gold standard" on consultation liaison psychiatry offers expert
guidance on diagnosing and treating the psychiatric problems of the in-hospital, medically ill patient. It features practical advice
on how to manage both adults and children who are coping with life-threatening illnesses, chronic disease, disfigurement, and more. Readers
will also find advice on commonly found but difficult to manage problems such as depression, anxiety, and delirium.
Contents
1. Beginnings: Psychosomatic Medicine and Consultation Psychiatry in the General Hospital
2. Approach to Consultation Psychiatry:
Assessment Strategies
3. Limbic Music
4. Functional Neuroanatomy and the Neurological Examination
5. Diagnostic Rating Scales
and Laboratory Tests
6. Psychological and Neuropsychological Assessment
7. Coping with Illness and Psychotherapy of the Medically
Ill
8. Depressed and Mood-Disordered Patients
9. Suicidal Patients
10. Electroconvulsive Therapy in the General Hospital
11.
ICU Patients
12. Delirious Patients
13. Demented Patients
14. Psychotic Patients
15. Anxious Patients
16. Alcoholic Patients
- Acute and Chronic
17. Drug-Addicted Patients
18. Psychopharmacologic Issues in the Medical Setting
19. Functional Somatic
Symptoms and Somatoform Disorders
20. Difficult Patients
21. Pain Patients
22. Legal Aspects of Consultation
23. End of Life
Issues: Principles of Care and Ethics
24. Consultation with Children
25. Psychopharmacology for Children and Adolescents.
26.
Care of the Geriatric Patient
27. Patients with Neurological Conditions
I. Seizure Disorders (including non-epileptic seizures),
Cerebrovascular Disease, and
Traumatic Brain Injury
28. Patients with Neurological Conditions
II. Movement Disorders,
Multiple Sclerosis, and other Neurological Conditions
29. Aggressive and Impulsive Patients
30. Catatonia, Neuroleptic Malignant
Syndrome and Serotonin Syndrome
31. Patients with Disordered Sleep
32. The Psychiatric Management of Patients with Cardiac Dis
ease
33. Patients with Cancer
34. Ob/Gyn Patients
35. Patients with Eating Disorders
36. Organ Failure and Transplantation
Patients
37. HIV/AIDS Patients
38. Burn Patients
39. Chronic Medical Illness
40. Genetics and Genetic Disorders
41. Coping
with Culture and Cross Cultural Issues
42. Behavioral Medicine and Hypnosis
43. Complementary Medicine and Natural Medications
44.
Collaborative Care
45. Billing, Documentation, and Cost Effectiveness of Consultation
46. Medical Psychiatry and its Future
| Bibliographic details |
Paperback, 848 pages, publication date: FEB-2004
ISBN-13: 978-0-323-02767-0
ISBN-10: 0-323-02767-9
Imprint: MOSBY
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Last update: 10 Sep 2009
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