Stern: Massachusetts General Hospital Handbook of General Hospital Psychiatry 6th Edition (Expert Consult Series)

This sixth edition of Massachusetts General Hospital Handbook of General Hospital Psychiatry, revised and substantially expanded, was put together by a stalwart group of general hospital psychiatrists. It was designed to help busy practitioners care for patients on medical and surgical floors and in outpatient practices filled by co-morbid medical and psychiatric illness. The chapters, which cover specific illnesses and care settings, were crafted for readability. Moreover, clinical vignettes strategically placed throughout the book were meant to act as a nidus upon which clinical pearls would grow.

Consultation psychiatry, recently minted as a new subspecialty called psychosomatic medicine, involves the rapid recognition, evaluation, and treatment of psychiatric problems in the medical setting. Practitioners of psychosomatic medicine must also manage psychiatric reactions to medical illness, psychiatric complications of medical illness and its treatment, and psychiatric illness in those who suffer from medical or surgical illness. Because problems related to the affective, behavioral, and cognitive (the “ABCs”) realms of dementia, depression, anxiety, substance abuse, disruptive personalities, and critical illness are faced on a daily basis, emphasis has been placed on successful strategies for their management by the consultant and by the physician of record.

Eight new chapters were added to this edition, and previously written chapters were revised and updated. Additions include discussions of the doctor–patient relationship, the psychiatric interview, sexual disorders and sexual dysfunction, emergency consultations, caring for children when a parent is ill, the rigors of psychiatric practice, quality assurance and quality improvement, and psychiatric research in the general hospital.

This book would not have been possible were it not for the steady hands of our acquisitions editor at Elsevier, Adrianne Brigido, and senior project manager, Cheryl Abbott. At the Massachusetts General Hospital, Judy Byford and Elena Muenzen helped shepherd us through thousands of emails, voice mails, FAXes, and photocopies associated with 54 chapters and scores of authors.

On behalf of the patients who suffer, this edition improves the detection and treatment of psychiatric problems and brings much needed relief.

Contents

• Chapter 1 Beginnings: Psychosomatic Medicine and Consultation Psychiatry in the General Hospital
• Chapter 2 Approach to Consultation Psychiatry: Assessment Strategies
• Chapter 3 The Doctor–Patient Relationship
• Chapter 4 The Psychiatric Interview
• Chapter 5 Functional Neuroanatomy and the Neurologic Examination
• Chapter 6 Limbic Music
• Chapter 7 sychological and Neuropsychological Assessment 
• Chapter 8 Diagnostic Rating Scales and Laboratory Tests
• Chapter 9 Mood-Disordered Patients
• Chapter 10 Delirious Patients
• Chapter 11 Demented Patients
• Chapter 12 Psychotic Patients
• Chapter 13 Anxious Patients
• Chapter 14 Alcoholic Patients: Acute and Chronic
• Chapter 15 Drug-Addicted Patients
• Chapter 16 Functional Somatic Symptoms, Deception Syndromes, and Somatoform Disorders
• Chapter 17 Patients with an Eating Disorder
• Chapter 18 Pain Patients
• Chapter 19 Patients with Neurologic Conditions I. Seizure Disorders (Including Nonepileptic Seizures), Cerebrovascular Disease, and Traumatic Brain Injury
• Chapter 20 Patients with Neurologic Conditions II. Movement Disorders, Multiple Sclerosis, and Other Neurologic Conditions
• Chapter 21 Catatonia, Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome, and Serotonin Syndrome
• Chapter 22 Patients with Disordered Sleep
• Chapter 23 The Psychiatric Management of Patients with Cardiac Disease
• Chapter 24 Sexual Disorders and Sexual Dysfunction
• Chapter 25 Organ Failure and Transplantation
• Chapter 26 Patients with Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection and Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS)
• Chapter 27 Patients with Cancer
• Chapter 28 Burn Patients
• Chapter 29 Chronic Medical Illness and Rehabilitation
• Chapter 30 Intensive Care Unit Patients
• Chapter 31 Genetics and Psychiatry
• Chapter 32 Coping With Illness and Psychotherapy of the Medically Ill
• Chapter 33 Electroconvulsive Therapy in the General Hospital
• Chapter 34 Psychopharmacology in the Medical Setting
• Chapter 35 Psychopharmacological Management of Children and Adolescents
• Chapter 36 Behavioral Medicine
• Chapter 37 Complementary Medicine and Natural Medications
• Chapter 38 Difficult Patients
• Chapter 39 Emergency Psychiatry
• Chapter 40 Care of the Suicidal Patient
• Chapter 41 Care at the End of Life
• Chapter 42 Pediatric Consultation
• Chapter 43 Consultation to Parents with Serious Medical Illness
• Chapter 44 Care of the Geriatric Patient
• Chapter 45 Aggressive and Impulsive Patients
• Chapter 46 Psychiatric Illness during Pregnancy and the Postpartum Period
• Chapter 47 Culture and Psychiatry
• Chapter 48 Legal Aspects of Consultation
• Chapter 49 Collaborative Care: Psychiatry and Primary Care
• Chapter 50 Coping with the Rigors of Psychiatric Practice
• Chapter 51 Billing, Documentation, and Cost-Effectiveness of Consultation
• Chapter 52 Quality Assurance and Quality Improvement on a Psychiatric Consultation Service
• Chapter 53 Psychiatric Research in the General Hospital
• Chapter 54 Medical Psychiatry and Its Future
• Index

Book Details

• Paperback: 752 pages
• Publisher: Saunders; 6 edition (May 17, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1437719279 
• ISBN-13: 978-1437719277
• Product Dimensions: 10.2 x 7.2 x 1.2 inches

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