Effective psychiatric consultation in a changing health care environment -- Mental status examination and othre tests of brain function -- Delirium -- Dementia -- Depression -- Mania -- Anxiety and insomnia -- Somatoform and related disorders -- Substance-related disorders -- Important pharmacological issues -- Violence and aggression -- Pain and analgesics -- Personality, response to illness, and medical psychotherapy -- Medicolegal issues in consultation -- Suicidality -- Geriatric psychiatry -- Special psychosomatic medicine settings and situations.
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"Clinical Manual of Psychosomatic Medicine is designed to aid today's busy clinicians with bedside and office consultation. This manual, which presents the distilled wisdom of two highly experienced consultation-liaison psychiatrists, provides quick access to critical information on how to diagnose and treat psychiatric disorders in medical-surgical patients. Because the work of consultation-liaison psychiatrists has been proven to reduce mortality, morbidity, length of stay, and hospital costs in general hospital patients and medical-surgical outpatients, their role in ensuring the effective treatment of these patients is more vital than ever."--BOOK JACKET.