This Manual by Wyszynski and Wyszynski does what it promises to do. It gives the busy psychiatrist working in the medical-surgical setting a wealth of practical information invaluable for state-of-the-science care of important conditions at the bedside. It is an outstanding contribution to the medical psychiatry literature. Gregory Fricchione, M.D., Associate Chief of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts Psychiatrists are increasingly being called upon to act in the role of physician and healer in medically ill patients. Most training programs have not adequately prepared residents for this responsibility. This volume successfully addresses the need. It is practical, useful, and in addition contains wisdom as well as solid clinical advice. Robert Cancro, M.D., Med.D.Sc., Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Psychiatry and Chairman of the Department, New York University School of Medicine, New York

This book contains easy-to-use summaries, web resources, checklists, flowcharts, and worksheets found here - all designed to teach the process of psychiatric consultation. Intended as a companion guide to comprehensive but encyclopedic textbooks in psychosomatic medicine, this concise volume combines medication updates with ?how-to? strategies for the psychiatric treatment of patients with cardiovascular, hepatic, renal, pulmonary disease and gastrointestinal symptoms. Chapters are arranged by organ-system, e.g., The Patient With Kidney Disease, The Cardiovascular Patient, for easy reference. Each chapter summarizes the literature, emphasizing diagnostic and treatment considerations for patients with psychiatric symptoms and medical illnesses. Individual chapters cover delirium, pregnancy (a standalone monograph on the treatment of psychiatric illness in pregnancy), HIV, hepatitis C, steroid-induced psychiatric syndromes, and organ transplants.