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Clinical manual of psychosomatic medicine; a guide to consultation-liaison psychiatry.


RC455

2004-026969

1-58562-201-X

Clinical manual of psychosomatic medicine psychosomatic medicine (sī'kōsōmăt`ĭk), study and treatment of those emotional disturbances that are manifested as physical disorders. ; a guide to consultation-liaison psychiatry.

Wise, Michael G. and James R. Rundell.

American Psychiatric Pubg., [c]2005

338 p.

$37.95 (pa)

Psychiatry scholars Wise (U. of California-Davis) and Rundell (Uniformed Services The Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and Public Health Services. See also Military Department; Military Service.  U. of the Health Sciences, Maryland) offer a primary resource for psychiatrists who perform consultation, liaison, and psychosomatic psychosomatic /psy·cho·so·mat·ic/ (-sah-mat´ik) pertaining to the mind-body relationship; having bodily symptoms of psychic, emotional, or mental origin.

psy·cho·so·mat·ic
adj.
1.
 work; who see patients with concurrent psychiatric and medical-surgical conditions; or who use a medical model in their psychiatric practice. The arrangement is mostly by condition, such as delirium delirium

Condition of disorientation, confused thinking, and rapid alternation between mental states. The patient is restless, cannot concentrate, and undergoes emotional changes (e.g., anxiety, apathy, euphoria), sometimes with hallucinations.
, anxiety and insomnia, and violence and aggression. This supersedes their Concise Guide to Consultation Psychiatry, published between 1987 and 2000.
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