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by Maxwell Maltz
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by John Wesley Howard
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Massachusetts General Hospital Handbook of General Hospital Psychiatry
by (Editor: Ned H. Cassem)
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Mosby-Year Book (1991-08)
ISBN: 081511477X
EAN: 9780815114772
Dewy Decimal #: 616.0019
Paperback: 600 pages
Edition: 3rd
SKU: mon0000040525
Condition: Like New
Comments: "One faint crease at bottom right corner, owners emboss seal on front page. Clearly unused and unmarked."
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
Written by one of the premier psychiatry departments in the world, this "gold standard" on consultation liaison psychiatry offers expert guidance on diagnosing and treating the psychiatric problems of the in-hospital, medically ill patient. It features practical advice on how to manage both adults and children who are coping with life-threatening illnesses, chronic disease, disfigurement, and more. Readers will also find advice on commonly found but difficult to manage problems such as depression, anxiety, and delirium.
- Features the expertise of clinicians, teachers, and researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital.
- Provides cognitive and behavioral strategies that practitioners at all levels can use.
- Presents practical guidance on drugs and their side effects, along with recommendations for alternative drug therapies.
- Discusses how to manage difficult, hypochondriacal, and somatoform and conversion patients.
- Features 20 brand-new chapters that discuss such key issues as end-of-life · geriatric considerations · eating disorders · genetics · behavioral medicine and hypnosis · and complementary medicine and natural medications.
- Presents updated and expanded material on psychopharmacology and drug/drug interactions.
- Offers advice on how to avoid critical errors.
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Customer Reviews
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A good book
Rating  (4)
Date: 2008-01-18
Well written and organized book. Some chapters are better than others and there is a definite bias towards the way Mass General does things. But still a good resource for any C/L Psychiatrist.
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Very practical, very useful
Rating  (5)
Date: 2007-10-01
This one of those great textbooks that you find has the most practical approach and tips you never knew about before and that perhaps many standard medical textbooks are lacking.
You need to use it in association with a standard textbook of psychiatry, but for me this book is a great discovery. I am in my first year of psychaitry training and doing hospital psychiatry. I had to do a presentation for medical students on somatoform disorders and found so many practical suggestions and great cases presentations in the book. Somehow this textbook manages to make reading and learning enjoyable and even more importantly, memorable
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Very helpful!
Rating (4)
Date: 2006-07-29
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
As a practicing psychiatrist with C-L responsibilities, this book has given me the right tool to deal with many clinical issues in the medical and surgical environment. Despite the exhaustive and elaborate details about common topics, each chapter is quick to digest. Indeed, it reads like a handbook but it has the details of a textbook. I highly recommend it especially that this well-written literature has helped me pass the certification in Psychosomatic Medicine (American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology).
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Psychiatry as it should be
Rating (5)
Date: 2004-08-22
5 out of 5 customers found this reveiw helpful
This is simply the best overview of psychiatry currently available. If you treat human beings--or simply want to understand them better,read this book. Why this one? Medical "literature," unfortunately, is often little more than data-mongering. Data can be interesting, but on its own, it will not help you care for patients competently and compassionately. Very rarely, a medical text goes beyond data and information to knowledge, an informed, balanced, comprehensive, learned, and practical perspective. This book is *always* knowledgeable, but often goes one better,achieving (and conveys) that most rare of medical traits, wisdom. Read this book: your patients, and your practice will be better for it.
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All of C & L between the covers of one book!
Rating (5)
Date: 2000-04-20
14 out of 16 customers found this reveiw helpful
OK, so it's not ALL of C&L, but it does represent the equivalent of the best review articles of each C&L subject(the way MY hospital teaches the subject.)In fact some of the hints, especially by Dr./Fr. Casem, I have not found anywhere else, and are very practical even at my basic level (I am a psychiatry resident,curently doing my C&L rotation.) My attending was so impressed at my "knowledge" (I'd read the book!), HE went out and bought one, too. If you've an interest in C&L psychiatry, or in the management of "difficult" patients on any hospital service, this book surely tops the list.
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