Handbook of Psychiatry in Palliative Medicine

Harvey Max Chochinov is Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Manitoba and Director of the Manitoba Palliative Care Research Unit at CancerCare Manitoba. William Breitbart is Vice Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Chief of Psychiatry Service at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. He is also Professor of Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College at Cornell University.

• Part I ; Psychiatric and Psychosocial Palliative Care: Critical Milestones ; 1 Hospice and Palliative Care: A Psychiatric Perspective ; John L. Shuster, Jr., M.D. ; Irene J. Higginson, BMedSci, BMBS, FFPHM, Ph.D., FRCP ; 2 Integrating Psychiatry and Palliative Medicine: The Challenges and Opportunities ; J. Andrew Billings, M.D. ; Susan D. Block, M.D. ; Part II ; Psychiatric Complications of Terminal Illness ; 3 An Overview of Care and Management of the Patient at the End of Life ; Edwin H. Cassem, S.J., M.D. ; 4 Diagnosis and Management of Depression in Palliative Care ; Keith G. Wilson, Ph.D., C.Psych. ; Mark Lander, M.D., FRCPC ; Harvey Max Chochinov, O.M, M.D., Ph.D., FRSC ; 5 Anxiety in Palliative Care ; Andrew J. Roth, M.D. ; Mary Jane Massie, M.D. ; 6 Delirium in the Terminally Ill ; William Breitbart, M.D. ; Peter G. Lawlor, MB MMedSc, CCFP ; Miriam Friedlander, M.D. ; 7 Suicide and Desire for Hastened Death in the Terminally Ill ; Megan Olden, M.A. ; Hayley Pessin, Ph.D. ; Wendy G. Lichtenthal, Ph.D. ; William Breitbart, M.D. ; 8 Palliative Care for Patients with Serious Mental Illness ; Mary Ellen Foti, M.D. ; 9 Palliative Care for Patients with Substance Abuse and Patients with Personality Disorders ; Tatiana D. Starr, M.A. ; Lauren J. Rogak, M.A. ; David J. Casper, B.A. ; Kenneth L. Kirsh, Ph.D. ; Steven D. Passik, Ph.D. ; Part III ; Psychosocial Issues in Palliative Care ; 10 What Dying People Want ; David R. Kuhl, M.D., Ph.D. ; 11 Communication with Terminally Ill Patients and Their Families ; Peter Maguire, M.D. ; Joseph S. Weiner, M.D., Ph.D. ; 12 Interdisciplinary Teamwork in Palliative Care: Compassionate Expertise for Serious Complex Illness ; Matthew J. Loscalzo, MSW ; Charles F. von Gunten, M.D., Ph.D. ; 13 Cultural Diversity and Palliative Care ; Leslie J. Blackhall, M.D., MTS ; 14 Understanding and Managing Bereavement in Palliative Care ; Sidney Zisook, M.D. ; Scott A. Irwin, M.D., Ph.D. ; M. Katherine Shear, M.D. ; 15 Family Issues and Palliative Care ; David K. Wellisch, Ph.D. ; David W. Kissane, M.D., MPM, FRANZCP, FAChPM ; 16 Burnout and Symptoms of Stress in Staff Working in Palliative Care ; Mary L.S. Vachon, R.N., Ph.D. ; Monika Muller, M.A. ; Part IV ; Ethical, Existential, and Spiritual Issues in Palliative Care ; 17 Ethical Issues in Palliative Care ; Edmund D. Pellegrino, M.D., MACP ; Daniel P. Sulmasy, M.D., Ph.D. ; 18 Personal Growth and Human Development in Life-Threatening Conditions ; Ira Byock, M.D. ; 19 The Treatment of Suffering in Patients with Advanced Cancer ; Nathan I. Cherny, MBBS, FRACP, FRCP ; 20 Dignity, Meaning, and Demoralization: Emerging Paradigms in End-of-Life Care ; David W. Kissane, M.D., MPM, FRANZCP, FAChPM ; Christina Treece, M.D. ; William Breitbart, M.D. ; Nancy A. McKeen, R.N., Ph.D. ; Harvey Max Chochinov, O.M, M.D., Ph.D., FRSC ; 21 Spiritual Issues in Palliative Care ; Christina M. Puchalski, M.D., FACP ; Part V ; Understanding and Managing Symptoms ; 22 Physical Symptom Management in the Terminally Ill ; Russell K. Portenoy, M.D. ; Badi El Osta, M.D. ; Eduardo Bruera, M.D. ; 23 Psychiatric Aspects of Pain Management in Patients with Advanced Cancer and AIDS ; William Breitbart, M.D. ; Steven D. Passik, Ph.D. ; David J. Casper, B.A ; Tatiana D. Starr, M.A. ; Lauren J. Rogak, M.A. ; 24 Eating Issues in Palliative Cancer Patients ; Susan E. McClement, R.N., Ph.D. ; 25 Psychiatric Aspects of Fatigue at the End of Life ; Susan E. Abbey, M.D., FRCPC ; Part VI ; Psychotherapeutic Interventions in Palliative Care ; 26 Individual Psychotherapy for the Patient with Advanced Disease ; Gary Rodin, M.D., FRCPC ; 27 Narrative Medicine: Writing through Bereavement ; Robert A. Neimeyer, Ph.D. ; James W. Pennebaker, Ph.D. ; Jessica G. van Dyke, B.A. ; 28 Cognitive-Behavioral Approaches to Symptom Management in Palliative Care: Augmenting Somatic Interventions ; Dennis C. Turk, Ph.D. ; Caryn S. Feldman, Ph.D. ; 29 Group Psychotherapy and the Terminally Ill ; David Spiegel, M.D. ; Molyn Leszcz, M.D., FRCPC ; 30 Family-Focused Grief Therapy ; Sidney Bloch, M.D., Ph.D. ; David W. Kissane, M.D., MPM, FRANZCP, FAChPM ; Part VII ; Life Cycle Considerations in Palliative Care ; 31 Psychiatric Care of the Terminally Ill Child ; Margaret L. Stuber, M.D. ; Brenda Bursch, Ph.D. ; 32 The Child and Adolescent in Palliative Care ; Barbara M. Sourkes, Ph.D. ; Joanne Wolfe, M.D., MPH ; 33 Special Care Considerations for the Seriously Ill Older Adult ; Lynn B. O'Neill, M.D. ; Diane E. Meier, M.D. ; R. Sean Morrison, M.D.

For those now training in palliative medicine, this will provide an invaluable and up to date review of all matters pertaining to psychological and psychiatric care...this book belongs on the library shelf in any hospice or palliative care unit.