The Eye and the Mind

Health professionals dealing with the eye are also encountering a wide range of social and psychological issues which patients bring with them into the clinic. The Eye and the Mind provides practical and concise guidance which will help you to identify what these issues are and understand how they affect clinical presentation, and how they might be affected by consultation and treatment. It will also be invaluable in enabling you to develop communication and interpersonal skills to relate more effectively to patients, whether in the context of the routine examination or of more complex and difficult presentations. Help is also offered in the proper referral of patients.

Many eye care patients with visual loss experience either mild or more serious forms of pyschological difficulty, particularly among the elderly; practitioners are often confronted with patients in whom clinical examination does not correspond to their reported complaints;. topical drugs treatments may carry with them neuropsychiatric side effects; the eye care practitioner may be required to break bad news about progressive disease. The Eye and the Mind gives indispensable insight and advice on all these topics and more, with case studies to add to its practical appeal.

Optometrists, ophthalmologists, students and all health professionals involved in eye care will find in this book invaluable guidance to help them through countless clinical presentations.