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.
1 Approach to Psychiatric Consultations in the General Hospital 2 the Doctor-patient Relationship 3 the Psychiatric Interview 4 Limbic Music 5 Functional Neuroanatomy and the Neurologic Examination 6 Psychological and Neuropsychological Assessment in the Medical Setting 7 Diagnostic Rating Scales, Procedures, and Laboratory Tests 8 Mood Disorders: Depression and Bipolar Disorder 9 Delirium 10 Patients With Neurocognitive Disorders 11 Patients With Psychosis 12 Pharmacotherapy of Anxiety Disorders 13 Substance Use Disorders 14 Somatic Symptom and Related Disorders and Functional Somatic Syndromes 15 Factitious Disorders and Malingering 16 Eating Disorders 17 Pain 18 Neuropsychiatric Conditions: Seizures, Headaches, Stroke Syndromes, and Traumatic Brain Injuries 19 Patients With Abnormal Movements 20 Infectious or Inflammatory Europsychiatric Impairment 21 Catatonia, Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome, and Serotonin Syndrome 22 Patients With Disordered Sleep 23 Sexual Disorders and Sexual Dysfunction 24 the Psychiatric Management of Patients With Cardiac Disease 25 Patients With Kidney Disease 26 Patients With Gastrointestinal Disease 27 Organ Failure and Transplantation 28 Hiv Infection and Aids 29 Covid-19 Infection 30 Patients With Cancer 31 Pulmonary Disease 32 Burns, Trauma, and Intensive Care Unit Treatment 33 Patients With Genetic Syndromes 34 Coping With Medical Illness and Psychotherapy of the Medically Ill 35 Resilience, Wellness, and Coping With the Rigors of Psychiatric Practice 36 Device Neuromodulation and Brain Stimulation Therapies 37 Psychopharmacology in the Medical Setting 38 Psychiatric Consultation to Children and Adolescents 39 Chronic Disease and Unhealthy Lifestyle Behaviors: Behavioral Management 40 Complementary Medicine and Natural Medications 41 Difficult Patients 42 Care of the Patient With Thoughts of Suicide 43 Emergency Psychiatry 44 Geriatric Psychiatry 45 Care at the End of Life 46 Psychiatric Illness During Pregnancy and the Postpartum Period 47 Culture and Psychiatry 48 Legal Aspects of Psychiatric Consultation 49 Approaches to Collaborative Care and Behavioral Health Integration 50 Community Psychiatry 51 Global Psychiatry and Mental Healthcare Delivery 52 Care of LGBTQIA+ Patients 53 Building Interdisciplinary Collaborations Across Healthcare Settings 54 Management of a Psychiatric Consultation Service