Massachusetts General Hospital Handbook of General Hospital Psychiatry

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.

• Features the expertise of clinicians, teachers, and researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital.
• Provides cognitive and behavioral strategies that practitioners at all levels can use.
• Presents practical guidance on drugs and their side effects, along with recommendations for alternative drug therapies.
• Discusses how to manage difficult, hypochondriacal, and somatoform and conversion patients.

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