Handbook of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry

Part I. General Principles and Approaches: Nature, Evolution, and Practice of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry.- 1.Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry and Psychosomatic Medicine.- 2.The Functions of CL Psychiatry.- 3.The Why and How of Psychiatric Consultation.- 4.Common Reasons for Consultation and their Management.- 5.Psychiatric Consultation in the Emergency Setting.- 6.Interviewing in Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry.- 7.Basic Foundations of Diagnosis, Psychiatric Diagnosis, and Final Common Pathway Syndromes.- 8.Psychopharmacology in Consultation-liaison Psychiatry.- 9.Integrative Care Model of Psychiatry in the Primary Care Setting.- 10.Systems and Ethical Issues in CL Psychiatry: Hospital as a Social System, Sick Role & Doctor Role, Ethical & Legal Issues.- 11.Cultural Aspects of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry.- Part II. Syndromes, Disorders, and Treatment in Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry.- 12.Delirium, Alcohol Intoxication and Withdrawal Syndromes.- 13.Neurocognitive Disorders (Dementias).- 14.Anxiety and Anxiety Disorders.- 15.Mood Syndromes : Bipolar and Related Disorders and Depressive Disorders.- 16.Trauma and Stressor-Related Disorders I: Acute Stress Disorder, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder.- 17.Trauma and Stressor-Related Disorders 2: Adjustment Disorders.- 18. Dissociative Disorder.- 19.Psychosis.- 20. Substance Use Problems.- 21.Somatic Symptom and Related Disorders (Psychological Factors Affecting Medical Condition, Conversion, Factitious Disorder).- 22.Chronic Pain.- 23.Somatization, Hypochondriasis (Illness Anxiety Disorder), and Somatization Disorder.- 24. Obsessive Compulsive and Related Disorders.- 25.Patient's Personality, Personality Types and Traits, and Disorders.- 26.Acute Settings and Conditions: Intensive Care Unit, Heart Disease, Stroke, Seizures.- 27. The Chronic Patient/Palliative Care Settings.- 28.The Kidney Impaired Patient.- 29. The Immune-Compromised Patients- HIV and Organ Transplantation.- 30.The Liver Impaired Patient.- 31.Obstetrics and Gynecology Patients: Menstrual Cycle, Pregnancy, and Postpartum-Related Psychiatric Disorders: Do Hormones Have a Role in Affective State?.- 32.Children and Adolescents.- 33.The Geriatric Patient.- 34.Special Procedures: Intravenous Sedative Interviews, Hoover Test, Hypnosis, Waddell Test.