Massachusetts General Hospital HANDBOOK of GENERAL HOSPITAL PSYCHIATRY

• Main Authors: Stern, Theodore A. (Author), Freudenreich, Oliver (Author), Smith, Felicia A. (Author), Fricchione, Gregory (Author), Rosenbaum, Jerrold F. (Author)
• Corporate Author: Massachusetts General Hospital
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Edinburgh Elsevier 2018
• Edition: Seventh edition
• Subjects: Mental Disorders; Referral and Consultation; Hospitalization; Psychology, Medical; Patients > psychology
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• Item Description: Preceded by Massachusetts General Hospital handbook of general hospital psychiatry / Theodore A. Stern ... [et al.]. 6th ed. c2010
• Physical Description: xxii, 638 pages illustrations 26 cm
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 9780323484114

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