Table of Contents:
  • Approach to psychiatric consultations in the general hospital
  • The doctor-patient relationship
  • The psychiatric interview
  • Limbic music
  • Functional neuroanatomy and the neurologic examination
  • Psychological and neuropsychological assessment in the medical setting
  • Diagnostic rating scales, procedures, and laboratory tests
  • Mood disorders: depression and bipolar disorder
  • Delirium
  • Patients with neurocognitive disorders
  • Patients with psychosis
  • Pharmacotherapy of anxiety disorders
  • Substance use disorders
  • Somatic symptom and related disorders and functional somatic syndromes
  • Factitious disorders and malingering
  • Eating disorders
  • Pain
  • Neuropsychiatric conditions: seizures, headaches, stroke syndromes, and traumatic brain injuries
  • Patients with abnormal movements
  • Infectious or inflammatory neuropsychiatric impairment
  • Catatonia, neuroleptic malignant syndrome, and serotonin syndrome
  • Patients with disordered sleep
  • Sexual disorders and sexual dysfunction
  • The psychiatric management of patients with cardiac disease
  • Patients with kidney disease
  • Patients with gastrointestinal disease
  • Organ failure and transplantation
  • HIV infection and aids
  • Covid-infection
  • Patients with cancer
  • Pulmonary disease
  • Burns, trauma, and intensive care unit treatment
  • Patients with genetic syndromes
  • Coping with medical illness and psychotherapy of the medically ill
  • Resilience, wellness, and coping with the rigors of psychiatric practice
  • Device neuromodulation and brain stimulation therapies
  • Psychopharmacology in the medical setting
  • Psychiatric consultation to children and adolescents
  • Chronic disease and unhealthy lifestyle behaviors: behavioral management
  • Complementary medicine and natural medications
  • Difficult patients
  • Care of the patient with thoughts of suicide
  • Emergency psychiatry
  • Geriatric psychiatry
  • Care at the end of life
  • Psychiatric illness during pregnancy and the postpartum period
  • Culture and psychiatry
  • Legal aspects of psychiatric consultation
  • Approaches to collaborative care and behavioral health integration
  • Community psychiatry
  • Global psychiatry and mental healthcare delivery
  • Care of LGBTQIA+ patients
  • Building interdisciplinary collaborations across healthcare settings
  • Management of a psychiatric consultation service.