Handbook of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry

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."

• Nature and Evolution of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry.- Evolution of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry and Psychosomatic Medicine.- The Functions of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry.- The Why and How of Psychiatric Consultation.- Evaluating the Evidence Base of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry.- Common Reasons for Psychiatric Consultation.- Psychiatric Syndromes in Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry.- Basic Foundations of Diagnosis, Psychiatric Diagnosis and Final Common Pathway Syndromes.- Delirium, Dementia, Alcohol Intoxication, and Withdrawal Syndromes.- Anxiety and Anxiety Syndromes.- Depression, Mania, and Mood Syndromes.- Psychosis.- Chronic Pain.- Substance Use Problems.- Psychological Factors Affecting Physical Conditions, Somatoform Disorders, Conversion, Dissociation, and Factitious Syndromes.- Hypochondriasis and Somatization Disorder.- The Patient's Personality, Personality Types, Traits, and Disorders.- Special Patients and Settings in Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry.- The Acutely Ill Patient in the Intensive Care Unit Setting.- The Chronic Patient, Palliative Care Settings, and the Dying Patient.- Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry in the Outpatient Setting.- The Dialysis and Kidney Transplant Patient.- Immune-Compromised Patients: Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Organ Transplantation.- The Liver-Impaired Patient.- Cultural Aspects of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry.- Obstetrics and Gynecology Patients: Menstrual Cycle, Pregnancy, and Postpartum-Related Psychiatric Disorders.- Children and Adolescents.- The Geriatric Patient.- The Emergency Department Setting.- Special Techniques in Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry.- Interviewing in Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry.- Systems Understanding and Intervention, and Ethical Issues.- Special Procedures: Intravenous Sedative Interviews, Hoover Test, and Hypnosis.

"... 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