This eminently practical reference provides the latest data on the cause,
clinical presentation, diagnosis, and treatment of psychiatric disorders
associated with medical illness-illuminating the often problematic area between
mental and physical dysfunctions.
Explicates psychiatric effects of pharmaceuticals used to treat many illnesses,
including hypertension, heart disease, transplantation, pulmonary disease,
cancer, AIDS, epilepsy, and more.
Psychiatric Treatment of the Medically Ill
describes methods for ameliorating psychological stressors that impact
negatively on purely medical conditions
explores physical symptoms such as pain, fatigue, dyspnea, and headache as
indicators of psychiatric disorder
delineates ways in which primary idiopathic disorders can be managed by primary
care physicians
explains the effects of a wide