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This updated resource refines and expands on both the core concepts and the real-world practice of consultation-liaison psychiatry in medical settings. New and revised chapters provide background and basics and describe CL psychiatry approaches to managing a wide array of common conditions, including heart disease, dementia, anxiety and depressive disorders, alcohol and substance use problems, and chronic pain. Besides the fine points of practice in varied chronic and acute care settings, specific patient populations such as children, elders, ob/gyn patients, and the immunocompromised are discussed. The latest information and insights on pharmacology, interviewing, and ethical and cultural issues round out the book's highly accessible coverage.A sampling of topics in the Handbook: Basic foundations of diagnosis, psychiatric diagnosis, and final common pathway syndromes.An integrative care model of psychiatry in the primary care setting.Patient personality, personality types and traits, and disorders.The chronic patient and the palliative care setting.Trauma- and stressor-related disorders.Somatic symptoms and related disorders.The Second Edition of the Handbook of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry ably follows its predecessor by presenting the diverse state of the specialty to enhance the work of psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, and primary care physicians

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. .. a remarkably complete and useful desktop book should be required reading for most clinicians whose practice involves the interface of psychiatric and hospital-based medicine a useful text for virtually all psychiatrists and psychiatric residents exceedingly valuable for hospital attending and primary care physicians who do not have ready access to psychiatric consultants, particularly in the emergency department setting . -Mark H. Fleisher, M.D., University of Nebraska College of Medicine, Omaha

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Hoyle Leigh, MD, is Professor Psychiatry at University of California, San Francisco. He is the author of a number of books on consultation-liaison psychiatry and behavioral sciences, including The Patient: Biological, Psychological, and Social Dimensions of medical Practice (Plenum/Kluwer, three editions). Previously, he was Professor of Psychiatry at Yale University where he established the Yale Behavioral Medicine Clinic that pioneered the field of behavioral medicine. Jon Streltzer, MD, is Professor of Psychiatry at University of Hawaii. He is renowned for his work in cultural psychiatry, psychonephrology, and chronic pain. He is a co-author of Culture and Psychopathology: Guidelines for Clinical Assessment and Culture and Psychotherapy: A Guide to Clinical Practice.

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