- Paperback: 752 pages
- Publisher: Elsevier; 7 edition (September 13, 2017)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0323484115
- ISBN-13: 978-0323484114
- Format : Original Publisher PDF.
- File Size: 20.4 MB.
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.
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- Features DSM-5 updates throughout, as well as case studies in every chapter.
- Contains practical tips on how to implement the most current and effective pharmacological therapies as well as cognitive-behavioral approaches.
- Expert Consult eBook version included with purchase. This enhanced eBook experience allows you to search all of the text, figures, images, videos (including video updates), glossary, and references from the book on a variety of devices.
