Psychosomatic Medicine: A Practical Guide
- ISBN13: 9780781772426
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- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
This handbook is a first-line source of essential information and practical guidelines for mental health professionals working with patients in the medical-surgical setting. Using the conversational style and case vignettes found in all Practical Guides in Psychiatry volumes, the authors discuss the psychiatric aspects of a variety of medical-surgical disorders, such as heart and kidney disease, oncology, the burn and trauma patient, gastrointestinal disorders, endocrine and autoimmune disorders, neurological disorders, and HIV/AIDS. Coverage includes chapters on somatoform disorders, pain management, capacity determination, psychodynamic issues and psychotherapy in the consultation-liaison setting, substance abuse issues in the medical setting, and death, dying, and bereavement. This thoroughly updated edition includes new chapters on psychiatric aspects of surgery and transplantation, women’s health issues, and disaster psychiatry. The Practical Guides in Psychiatry series provides quick, concise information for professionals on the front lines of mental health care. Written in an easy-to-read style, these invaluable resources take you through each step of the psychiatric care process, delivering fast facts and helpful strategies that help you provide effective and compassionate care to your patients.
Psychosomatic Medicine: A Practical Guide
Justin Reilly said,
Wrote on March 20, 2010 @ 10:23 am
Very inaccurate with regard to ME (CFS). Though he correctly includes the disease in the Autoimmune and Endocrine Disorders chapter, he then goes on to conflate Idiopathic Chronic Fatigue and ME (Chronic Fatigue Sydrome), a rank amateur’s mistake that results in his making inapposite recommendations. This may have been caused by a reliance on the Oxford, NICE or Reeves definitions which are invalid. The Canadian Government Definition is the only fully accurate official definition.
Despite CDC, NIH and the UK governments attempts to retard the science, there are now over 4,000 articles in peer reviewed medical journals showing frank biological pathology in ME. ME causes an enormous amount of morbidity and suffering. The propagation of the falsehood the ME is Idiopathic Chronic Fatigue contributes to a huge amount of iatrogenic morbidity (and sometimes mortality) for the over one million Americans with this very disabling disease.
Rating: 1 / 5