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.

Covers the psychological impact of chronic medical problems and life-threatening diseases, somatic symptom disorders, organ donors and recipients, pain, substance abuse, and polypharmacy, including a thorough review of drug actions and interactions, metabolism, and elimination.

• Features DSM-5 updates throughout, as well as case studies in every chapter.
• Contains practical tips on how to implement the most current and effective pharmacological therapies as well as cognitive-behavioral approaches.

Review

“Massachusetts General Hospital Handbook of General Hospital Psychiatry is one of the best on psychiatric care in an inpatient setting that I have reviewed. I would highly recommend it to physicians who work primarily in an inpatient setting.” Reviewed by Aaron Plattner, MD (Pine Rest Christian Mental Health Services) Doody’s Score: 95, 4 Stars!

Contents

۱. Beginnings : Psychosomatic Medicine and Consultation Psychiatry in the General Hospital
۲. Approach to Psychiatric Consultations in the General Hospital
۳. The Doctor–Patient Relationship
۴. The Psychiatric Interview
۵. Functional Neuroanatomy and the Neurologic Examination
۶. Limbic Music : The Band Plays On
۷. Psychological and Neuropsychological Assessment
۸. Diagnostic Rating Scales and Laboratory Tests
۹. Depressed Patients
۱۰. Delirious Patients
۱۱. Patients With Neurocognitive Disorders
۱۲. Psychotic Patients
۱۳. Anxious Patients
۱۴. Patients With Alcohol Use Disorder
۱۵. Patients With Substance Use Disorders
۱۶. Psychosomatic Conditions : Somatic Symptom and Related Disorders, Functional Somatic Syndromes, and Deception Syndromes
۱۷. Patients With an Eating Disorder
۱۸. Pain Patients
۱۹. Patients With Seizure Disorders
۲۰. Patients With Cerebrovascular Disease and Traumatic Brain Injury
۲۱. Patients With Abnormal Movements
۲۲. Patients With Infectious or Inflammatory Neuropsychiatric Impairment
۲۳. Catatonia, Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome, and Serotonin Syndrome
۲۴. Patients With Disordered Sleep
۲۵. Sexual Disorders or Sexual Dysfunction
۲۶. The Psychiatric Management of Patients With Cardiac Disease
۲۷. Patients With Renal Disease
۲۸. Patients With Gastrointestinal Disease
۲۹. Organ Failure and Transplantation
۳۰. Patients With Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection and Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
۳۱. Patients With Cancer
۳۲. Burn Patients
۳۳. Chronic Medical Illness and Rehabilitation
۳۴. Intensive Care Unit Patients
۳۵. Patients With Genetic Syndromes
۳۶. Coping With Illness and Psychotherapy of the Medically Ill
۳۷. Electroconvulsive Therapy and Neurotherapeutics
۳۸. Psychopharmacology in the Medical Setting
۳۹. Psychopharmacologic Management of Children and Adolescents
۴۰. Mind–Body Medicine
۴۱. Chronic Disease and Unhealthy Habits : Behavioral Management
۴۲. Complementary Medicine and Natural Medications
۴۳. Difficult Patients
۴۴. Care of the Suicidal Patient
۴۵. Emergency Psychiatry
۴۶. Care at the End of Life
۴۷. Pediatric Consultation
۴۸. Care of the Geriatric Patient
۴۹. Psychiatric Illness During Pregnancy and the Postpartum Period
۵۰. Culture and Psychiatry
۵۱. Legal Aspects of Consultation
۵۲. Approaches to Collaborative Care and Behavioral Health Integration
۵۳. Physician Well-Being and Coping With the Rigors of Psychiatric Practice
۵۴. Management of a Psychiatric Consultation Service