Massachusetts General Hospital Handbook of General Hospital Psychiatry

7th Edition - August 9, 2017
Authors: Theodore A. Stern, Oliver Freudenreich, Felicia A. Smith, Gregory L. Fricchione, Jerrold F. Rosenbaum
Language: English
Paperback ISBN:
9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 4 8 4 1 1 - 4
eBook ISBN:
9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 4 9 6 4 3 - 8

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For generations of practitioners, the Massachusetts General Hospital Handbook of General Hospital Psychiatry has been and is the "gold standard" guide to consultation-liaison psychiatry and psychosomatic medicine. The fully updated 7th Edition, by Drs. Theodore A. Stern, Oliver Freudenreich, Felicia A. Smith, Gregory L. Fricchione, and Jerrold F. Rosenbaum, provides an authoritative, easy-to-understand review of the diagnosis, evaluation, and treatment of psychiatric problems experienced by adults and children with medical and surgical conditions.

1. Beginnings: Psychosomatic Medicine and Consultation Psychiatry in the General Hospital

2. Approach to Psychiatric Consultations in the General Hospital

3. The Doctor–Patient Relationship

4. The Psychiatric Interview

5. Functional Neuroanatomy and the Neurologic Examination

6. Limbic Music – The Band Plays On

7. Psychological and Neuropsychological Assessment

8. Diagnostic Rating Scales and Laboratory Tests

9. Depressed Patients

10. Delirious Patients

11. Patients with Neurocognitive Disorders

12. Psychotic Patients

13. Anxious Patients

14. Patients with Alcohol Use Disorder

15. Patients with Substance Use Disorders

16. “Psychosomatic Conditions”: Somatic Symptom and Related Disorders, Functional Somatic Syndromes, and Deception Syndromes

17. Patients with an Eating Disorder

18. Pain Patients

19. Patients with Seizure Disorders

20. Patients with Cerebrovascular Disease and Traumatic Brain Injury

21. Patients with abnormal movements

22. Patients with Infectious or Inflammatory Neuropsychiatric Impairment

23. Catatonia, Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome, and Serotonin Syndrome

24. Patients with Disordered Sleep

25. Sexual Disorders or Sexual Dysfunction

26. The Psychiatric Management of Patients with Cardiac Disease

27. Patients with Renal Disease

28. Patients with Gastrointestinal Disease

29. Organ Failure and Transplantation

30. Patients with Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection and Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome

31. Patients with Cancer

32. Burn Patients

33. Chronic Medical Illness and Rehabilitation

34. Intensive Care Unit Patients

35. Patients with Genetic Syndromes

36. Coping with Illness and Psychotherapy of the Medically Ill

37. Electroconvulsive Therapy and Neurotherapeutics

38. Psychopharmacology in the Medical Setting

39. Psychopharmacological Management of Children and Adolescents

40. Mind-Body Medicine

41. Chronic Disease and Unhealthy Habits: Behavioral Management

42. Complementary Medicine and Natural Medications

43. Difficult Patients

44. Care of the Suicidal Patient

45. Emergency Psychiatry

46. Care at the End of Life

47. Pediatric Consultation

48. Care of the Geriatric Patient

49. Psychiatric Illness During Pregnancy and the Postpartum Period

50. Culture and Psychiatry

51. Legal Aspects of Consultation

52. Approaches to Collaborative Care and Behavioral Health Integration

53. Physician Well-Being and Coping with the Rigors of Psychiatric Practice

54. Management of a Psychiatric Consultation Service

Theodore A. Stern

Dr. Theodore A. Stern is the Ned H. Cassem Professor of Psychiatry in the field of Psychosomatic Medicine/Consultation at Harvard Medical School (HMS), Chief Emeritus of The Avery D. Weisman, Psychiatry Consultation Service, and Director of the Thomas P. Hackett Center for Scholarship in Psychosomatic Medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). Dr. Stern has co-authored more than 550 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters, and he has edited or authored more than 60 books (including the MGH Handbook of General Hospital Psychiatry, the MGH Psychiatry Update and Board Preparation, Learning About Psychopharmacology, Facing Overweight and Obesity, Facing Pelvic Pain, Facing Memory Loss and Dementia, Facing Serious Mental Illness, and the MGH Study Guide for Psychiatry Exams). Dr. Stern is a Past-President of the Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry (ACLP) and is the Editor-in-Chief Emeritus of its journal, Psychosomatics (now called Journal of the Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry). He has won the coveted “Best Teacher Award” from the graduating residents at the MGH/McLean Hospital Psychiatric Residency Training Program, the Cynthia N. Kettyle Teaching Award from the HMS Department of Psychiatry, the MGH Department of Psychiatry’s Award for Exceptional Mentorship in the Clinical Realm, a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society of Liaison Psychiatry, and the Thomas P. Hackett Award from the ACLP (its highest honor).

Affiliations and expertise

Ned H. Cassem Professor of Psychiatry in the field of Psychosomatic Medicine/Consultation at Harvard Medical School; Chief Emeritus of The Avery D. Weisman, Psychiatry Consultation Service; and Director of the Thomas P. Hackett Center for Scholarship in Psychosomatic Medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital

Felicia A. Smith

Dr. Smith was previously a co-editor on this title and has been selected again by Dr. Stern to collaborate on the revision. She is a graduate of the MGH/McLean Adult Psychiatry Residency Program. Following graduation, she remained on staff and, in 2008, was named director of the Acute Psychiatry Service at MGH. It was in this role that she grew her strong interest in medical education, as it allowed her to help guide psychiatric residents, psychology interns and medical students. She previously held the role of program director for the Adult Psychiatry Residency Program.

Affiliations and expertise

Associate Chief of Psychiatry for MGH Division of Psychiatry & Medicine; Chief, Avery D. Weisman MD, Psychiatry Consultation Service Director, MGH ID Psychiatry; Harvard Medical School, Dept of Psychiatry; 55 Fruit Street; Boston, MA 02114

Gregory L. Fricchione

Affiliations and expertise

Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

Jerrold F. Rosenbaum

Affiliations and expertise

Psychiatrist-in-Chief, Massachusetts General Hospital Chair, Executive Committee on Research Massachusetts General Hospital Stanley Cobb Professor of Psychiatry Harvard Medical School Boston, MA