The American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry: Psychiatry in the Medically Ill

New edition of a text concerning the evaluation and treatment of medically ill patients who have psychiatric disorders. Editors Wise (psychiatry, Georgetown U. School of Medicine) and Rundell (psychiatry, Uniformed Services U. of the Health Sciences) and other leaders in consultation-liason psychiatry present 46 contributions structured around general principles which define essential clinical skills, including the ability to interpret findings in conjunction with modern technological tests and communicate those findings to other professionals; psychiatric and medical comorbidity and the psychiatric presentations of medical illnesses; the integral role of the consultation-liaison psychiatrist in highly specialized areas, such as transplantation; and the vast array of specific treatment modalities, with consideration of physiological and psychological responses of patients to advanced technologies and high-stress medical settings, as well as the interactions and psychotropic effects of medications. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)