Massachusetts General Hospital handbook of general hospital psychiatry / Theodore A. Stern [and others].

Incluye bibliografía

_ Beginnings: psychosomatic medicine and consultation psychiatry in the general hospital / Thomas P. Hackett [and others] -- Approach to consultation psychiatry: assessment strategies / John Querques and Theodore A. Stern -- The doctor-patient relationship / Christopher Gordon, Margot Philips, and Eugene V. Beresin -- The psychiatric interview / Eugene V. Beresin, Margot Phillips, and Christopher Gordon -- Functional neuroanatomy and the neurologic examination / Anthony P. Weiss and Stephan Heckers -- Limbic music / George B. Murray and Nicholas Kontos -- Psychological and neuropsychological assessment / Mark A. Blais, Sheila M. O´Keefe, and Dennis K. Norman -- Diagnostic rating scales and laboratory tests / Joshua L. Roffman, Benjamin C. Silverman, and Theodore A. Stern -- Mood-disordered patients / Paolo Cassano [and others] -- Delirious patients / Jason P. Caplan [and others] -- Demented patients / William E. Falk and Ilse R. Wiechers -- Psychotic patients / Oliver Freudenreich and Donald C. Goff -- Anxious patients / Mark H. Pollack [and others] -- Alcoholic patients: acute and chronic / Julie D. Ross, David R. Gastfriend, and John A. Renner, Jr. -- Drug-addicted patients / John A. Renner, Jr., Julie D. Ross, and David R. Gastfriend -- Functional somatic symptoms, deception syndromes, and somatoform disorders / Ilana M. Braun [and others] -- Patients with an eating disorder / Anne E. Becker [and others] -- Pain patients / Shamim H. Nejad and Menekse Alpay -- Patients with neurologic conditions I. / Jeff C. Huffman [and others] -- Patients with neurologic conditions II. / Shamim H. Nejad [and others] -- Catatonia, neuroleptic malignant syndrome, and serotonin syndrome / Gregory L. Fricchione [and others] -- Patients with disordered sleep / Patrick Smallwood, Davin K. Quinn, and Theodore A. Stern -- The psychiatric management of patients with cardiac disease / Guy Maytal [and others] -- Sexual disorders and sexual dysfunction / Linda C. Shafer -- Organ failure and transplantation / Owen S. Surman and Laura M. Prager -- Patients with human immunodeficiency virus infection and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome / BJ Beck, Oliver Freudenreich, and Jonathan L. Worth -- Patients with cancer / Ilana M. Braun, William F. Pirl, and Donna B. Greenberg -- Burn patients / Megan Moore Brennan [and others] -- Chronic medical illness and rehabilitation / Guy Maytal [and others] -- Intensive care unit patients / John Querques and Theodore A. Stern -- Genetics and psychiatry / Daniel H. Ebert [and others] -- Coping with illness and psychotherapy of the medically ill / Steven C. Schlozman [and others] -- Electroconculsive therapy in the general hospital / Charles A. Welch, Carlos Fernandez-Robles, and Cristina Cusin -- Psychopharmacology in the medical setting / Jonathan R. Stevens [and others] -- Psychopharmacological management of children and adolescents / Boris A. Lorberg and Jefferson B. Prince -- Behavioral medicine / Brian A. Palmer, Lisa Scharff, and Bruce J. Masek -- Complementary medicine and natural medications / Felicia A. Smith and David Mischoulon -- Difficult patients / Daniel J. Zimmerman and James E. Groves -- Emergency psychiatry / Jennifer M. Park [and others] -- Care of the suicidal patient / Rebecca W. Brendel [and others] -- Care at the end of life / Rebecca W. Brendel -- Pediatric consultation / Brian P. Kurtz, Anna C. Muriel, and Annah N. Abrams -- Consultation to parents with serious medical illness: parenting at a challenging time / Kristin S. Russell and Paula K. Rauch -- Care of the geriatric patient / M. Cornelia Cremens and Ilse R. Wiechers -- Aggressive and impulsive patients / Guy Maytal and Kathy M. Sanders -- Psychiatric illness during pregnancy and the postpartum period / Betty Wang [and others] -- Culture and psychiatry / David C. Henderson -- Legal aspects of consultation / Ronald Schouten and Rebecca W. Brendel -- Collaborative care: psychiatry and primary care / BJ Beck -- Coping with the rigors of psychiatric practice / Abigail L. Donovan, Edward Messner, and Theodore A. Stern -- Billing, documentation, and cost-effectiveness of consultation / Nicholas Kontos, Robert M. Stern, and Theodore A. Stern -- Quality assurance and quality improvement on a psychiatric consultation service / Anthony P. Weiss and Theodore A. Stern -- Psychiatric research in the general hospital / Adrienne O. van Nieuwenhuizen and Dan V. Iosifescu -- Medical psychiatry and its future / Benjamin C. Silverman.

Experts from the Massachusetts General Hospital-widely respected as one of the world´s premier psychiatric institutions-provide practical advice on the diagnosis and treatment of psychiatric issues experienced by in-hospital, medically ill adults and children. This compact resource reads like a handbook, but delivers all the details you´d expect from a textbook. Find information quickly thanks to an improved chapter organization, and get just the answers you need with concise yet complete coverage appropriate for psychiatrists and generalists alike.