Psychiatric Aspects of Cancer Jimmie C. Holland Jessica Stiles Introduction Psycho-oncology addresses the two major psychiatric and psychological dimensions of cancer: first, the responses of patients and their families at…
Psychiatric Aspects of Surgery (Including Transplantation) S. A. Hales S. E. Abbey G. M. Rodin Attention to psychiatric disturbances and to emotional distress is important in the surgical setting, from…
Psychiatric Aspects of Infections José Luis Ayuso-Mateos Neuropsychiatric disturbances stemming from infectious diseases are widespread in both the industrialized world and developing countries. Such neuropsychiatric syndromes are not necessarily the…
Medical Conditions Associated with Psychiatric Disorder James R. Rundell Introduction Seven out of 10 office visits to a primary care practitioner are related to a chronic illness.(1) There are high…
Psychiatric Aspects of Neurological Disease Maria A. Ron Psychiatric abnormalities are an integral part of neurological disease and their study can improve our understanding of the neural basis of psychiatric…
Adjustment to Illness and Handicap Allan House Introduction Not everybody who develops a serious physical illness will have psychiatric problems as a consequence. To understand why, it is useful to…
Neurasthenia Felice Lieh Mak Introduction The term neurasthenia has had a variegated history, and although retained as a diagnostic entity in the ICD-10 it does not appear in the DSM-IV….
Factitious Disorder and Malingering Christopher Bass David Gill Factitious disorder Introduction Patients with factitious disorder feign or simulate illness, are considered not to be aware of the motives that drive…
Body Dysmorphic Disorder Katharine A. Phillips The dysmorphophobic patient is really miserable; in the middle of his daily routines, talks, while reading, during meals, everywhere and at any time, he…
