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MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL HANDBOOK OF GENERAL HOSPITAL PSYCHIATRY
Massachusetts General Hospital Handbook of General Hospital PsychiatryTo order this title, and for more information, click here
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 & ordering Information
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: 25 Aug 2008
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