Massachusetts General Hospital handbook of general hospital psychiatry
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Massachusetts General Hospital handbook of general hospital psychiatry
Mosby Year Book, c1997
4th ed
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Handbook of general hospital psychiatry
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
This book is the gold standard in consultation psychiatry, and is written by members of the MGH Department of Psychiatry. It illustrates the common psychiatric problems encountered in the general hospital setting by psychiatric practitioners who are commonly asked to consult with patients whose chief complaint is non-psychiatric.
Table of Contents
1. Beginnings: Consultation Psychiatry in a General Hospital 2. Limbic Music 3. Coping with Illness 4. Depressed Patients 5. Suicidal Patients 6. Electroconvulsive Therapy in the General Hospital 7. Delirious Patients 8. Demented Patients 9. Psychotic Patients 10. Anxious Patients 11. Alcoholic Patients: Acute and Chronic 12. Drug-Addicted Patients 13. Psychopharmacological Issues in the Medical Setting 14. Functional Somatic Symptoms and Somatoform Disorders 15. Difficult Patients 16. Pain Patients 17. Legal Aspects of Consultation 18. Consultation with Children 19. Psychopharmacology for Children and Adolescents 20. Ob/Gyn Patients 21. Organ Failure and Transplantation Patients 22. HIV/AIDS Patients 23. Burn Patients 24. Spinal Cord-Injured Patients 25. The Dying Patient 26. Medical Psychiatry and Its Future
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