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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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Beginnings: Psychosomatic Medicine and Consultation Psychiatry in the General Hospital / Thomas P. Hackett, Ned H. Cassem, Theodore A. Stern, George B. Murray and Gregory L. Fricchione -- 2. Approach to Consultation Psychiatry: Assessment Strategies / John Querques and Theodore A. Stern -- 3. Limbic Music / George B. Murray -- 4. Functional Neuroanatomy and the Neurologic Examination / Anthony P. Weiss and Stephan Heckers -- 5. Diagnostic Rating Scales and Laboratory Tests / Joshua L. Roffman and Theodore A. Stern -- 6. Psychological and Neuropsychological Assessment / Mark A. Blais, Sheila M. O'Keefe and Dennis K. Norman -- 7. Coping with Illness and Psychotherapy of the Medically III / Steven C. Schlozman, James E. Groves and Avery D. Weisman -- 8. Mood-Disordered Patients / Ned H. Cassem, George I. Papakostas, Maurizio Fava and Theodore A. Stern -- 9. Suicidal Patients / Theodore A. Stern, Roy H. Perlis and Isabel T. Lagomasino -- 10. Electroconvulsive Therapy in the General Hospital / Charles A. Welch -- 11. Intensive Care Unit Patients / John Querques and Theodore A. Stern -- 12. Delirious Patients / Ned H. Cassem, George B. Murray, Jennifer M. Lafayette and Theodore A. Stern -- 13. Demented Patients / William E. Falk, Roy H. Perlis and Marilyn S. Albert -- 14. Psychotic Patients / Donald C. Goff, Oliver Freudenreich and David C. Henderson -- 15. Anxious Patients / Mark H. Pollack, Michael W. Otto, Jerrold G. Bernstein and Jerrold F. Rosenbaum -- 16. Alcoholic Patients - Acute and Chronic / David R. Gastfriend, John A. Renner, Jr. and Thomas P. Hackett -- 17. Drug-Addicted Patients / John A. Renner, Jr. and David R. Gastfriend -- 18. Psychopharmacologic Issues in the Medical Setting / Jonathan E. Alpert, Maurizio Fava and Jerrold F. Rosenbaum -- 19. Functional Somatic Symptoms and Somatoform Disorders / Arthur J. Barsky, Theodore A. Stern, Donna B. Greenberg and Ned H. Cassem -- 20. Difficult Patients / James E. Groves -- 21. Pain Patients / Menekse Alpay -- 22. Legal Aspects of Consultation / Ronald Schouten and Rebecca W. Brendel -- 23. End of Life Issues: Principles of Care and Ethics / Ned H. Cassem and Rebecca W. Brendel -- 24. Consultation with Children / Annah N. Abrams, Anna C. Muriel and Paula K. Rauch -- 25. Psychopharmacology for Children and Adolescents / Jefferson B. Prince, Timothy E. Wilens, Joseph Biederman and Thomas J. Spenser -- 26. Care of the Geriatric Patient / M. Cornelia Cremens -- 27. Patients with Neurologic Conditions I. Seizure Disorders (Including Nonepileptic Seizures), Cerebrovascular Disease, and Traumatic Brain Injury / Jeff C. Huffman, Felicia A. Smith and Theodore A. Stern -- 28. Patients with Neurologic Conditions II. Movement Disorders, Multiple Sclerosis, and Other Neurologic Conditions / Joshua L. Roffman, Karsten Kueppenbender, Felicia A. Smith, Jeff C. Huffman and Theodore A. Stern -- 29. Aggresive and Impulsive Patients / Kathy M. Sanders -- 30. Catatonia, Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome, and Serotonin Syndrome / Gregory L. Fricchione, Jeff C. Huffman, Theodore A. Stern and George Bush -- 31. Patients with Disordered Sleep / Patrick Smallwood and Theodore A. Stern -- 32. Psychiatric Management of Patients with Cardiac Disease / Jeff C. Huffman, Theodore A. Stern and James L. Januzzi -- 33. Patients with Cancer and the Evolution of the Role of Psychiatry in Oncology / Donna B. Greenberg, Halyna Vitagliano, William F. Pirl, Annah N. Abrams, Anna C. Muriel and Paula K. Rauch -- 34. Pregnant Patient / Lee S. Cohen, Ruta Nonacs and Adele C. Viguera -- 35. Patients with Eating Disorders / Anne E. Becker and Esther Jacobowitz Israel -- 36. Organ Failure and Transplantation / Owen S. Surman and Laura M. Prager -- 37. Patients with HIV Infection and AIDS / B. J. Beck and Jonathan L. Worth -- 38. Burn Patients / Frederick J. Stoddard, Jr. and Gregory L. Fricchione -- 39. Chronic Medical Illness and Rehabilitation / Terry Rabinowitz, Thomas D. Stewart and Gregory L. Fricchione -- 40. Genetics and Genetic Disorders / Christine T. Finn, Joan M. Stoler and Jordan W. Smoller -- 41. Culture and Psychiatry / David C. Henderson, Dana Diem Nguyen, Marketa M. Wills and Gregory L. Fricchione -- 42. Behavioral Medicine / Bruce J. Masek and Lisa Scharff -- 43. Complementary Medicine and Natural Medications / Felicia A. Smith -- 44. Collaborative Care: Psychiatry and Primary Care / B. J. Beck -- 45. Billing Documentation and Cost-Effectiveness of Consultation / Robert M. Stern, Vincent Alessandrini and Theodore A. Stern -- 46. Medical Psychiatry and Its Future / Paul Summergrad, Scott L. Rauch and Gregory L. Fricchione.