For more than 40 years, the Massachusetts General Hospital Handbook of General Hospital Psychiatry has been the gold standard guide to consultation-liaison psychiatry and psychosomatic medicine. Under the editorial leadership of Drs. Theodore A. Stern, Scott R. Beach, Felicia A. Smith, Oliver Freudenreich, Ana-Maria Vranceanu, and Maurizio Fava, the fully revised 8th Edition continues this tradition of excellence for yet another generation of practitioners. In a convenient handbook format, it 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.

• Features DSM-5-TR codes throughout, case studies, and practical tips on how to implement the most current and effective pharmacologic therapies as well as cognitive-behavioral approaches.
• Includes new chapters on Psychiatric Management of Patients with Pulmonary Conditions; Psychiatric Management of Patients with COVID-19 Infection; Behavioral and Psychopharmacological Management of Unhealthy Habits and Behaviors; Community Psychiatry; Global Mental Health; Care of LGBTQIA+ Patients; and more.
• Highlights strategies to enhance coping with medical conditions, resilience, adherence to treatment recommendations, and mindfulness.
• Features a new, two-color format for improved readability and visual clarity for tables, diagrams, and illustrations.
• An ideal resource for psychiatrists, residents, and fellows, as well as interdisciplinary practitioners who support the work of consultation-liaison psychiatrists and provide independent care to medical/surgical patients with comorbid psychiatric symptoms or conditions.

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The gold standard guide to hospital psychiatry for generations of practitioners

Contents

۱. Approach to Psychiatric Consultations in the General Hospital
۲. The Doctor-Patient Relationship
۳. The Psychiatric Interview
۴. Limbic Music
۵. Functional Neuroanatomy and the Neurologic Examination
۶. Psychological and NeuroPsychological Assessment in the Medical Setting
۷. Diagnostic Rating Scales, Procedures, and Laboratory Tests
۸. Mood Disorders: Depression and Bipolar Disorder
۹. Delirium
۱۰. Patients with Neurocognitive Disorders
۱۱. Patients with Psychosis
۱۲. Pharmacotherapy of Anxiety Disorders
۱۳. Substance Use Disorders
۱۴. Somatic Symptom and Related Disorders and Functional Somatic Syndromes
۱۵. Factitious Disorders and Malingering
۱۶. Eating Disorders
۱۷. Pain
۱۸. Neuropsychiatric Conditions: Seizures, Headaches, Stroke Syndromes, and Traumatic Brain Injuries
۱۹. Patients with Abnormal Movements
۲۰. Infectious or Inflammatory Neuropsychiatric Impairment
۲۱. Catatonia, Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome, and Serotonin Syndrome
۲۲. Patients with Disordered Sleep
۲۳. Sexual Disorders and Sexual Dysfunction
۲۴. The Psychiatric Management of Patients with Cardiac Disease
۲۵. Patients with Kidney Disease
۲۶. Patients with Gastrointestinal Disease
۲۷. Organ Failure and Transplantation
۲۸. HIV Infection and AIDS
۲۹. Covid-19 Infection
۳۰. Patients with Cancer
۳۱. Pulmonary Disease
۳۲. Burns, Trauma, and Intensive Care Unit Treatment
۳۳. Patients with Genetic Syndromes
۳۴. Coping with Medical Illness and Psychotherapy of the Medically Ill
۳۵. Resilience, Wellness, and Coping with the Rigors of Psychiatric Practice
۳۶. Device Neuromodulation and Brain Stimulation Therapies
۳۷. Psychopharmacology in the Medical Setting
۳۸. Psychiatric Consultation to Children and Adolescents
۳۹. Chronic Disease and Unhealthy Lifestyle Behaviors: Behavioral Management
۴۰. Complementary Medicine and Natural Medications
۴۱. Difficult Patients
۴۲. Care of the Patient with Thoughts of Suicide
۴۳. Emergency Psychiatry
۴۴. Geriatric Psychiatry
۴۵. Care at the End of Life
۴۶. Psychiatric Illness During Pregnancy and the Postpartum Period
۴۷. Culture and Psychiatry
۴۸. Legal Aspects of Psychiatric Consultation
۴۹. Approaches to Collaborative Care and Behavioral Health Integration
۵۰. Community Psychiatry
۵۱. Global Psychiatry and Mental Healthcare Delivery
۵۲. Care of LGBTQIA+ Patients
۵۳. Building Interdisciplinary Collaborations Across Healthcare Settings
۵۴. Management of a Psychiatric Consultation Service