Massachusetts General Hospital Handbook of General Hospital Psychiatry: Year Book Handbooks Series

by T.P. Hackett and Massachusetts General Hospital

This book is the gold standard in consultation psychiatry and is written by members of the MGH Department of Psychiatry. It illustrates the common psychiatric problems encountered in the general hospital setting by psychiatric practitioners who are commonly asked to consult with patients whose chief complaint is non-psychiatric.

An established classic in the field, recommended as "essential" by Brandon-Hill and included in American College of Physicians' recommended library for internists. Authored by pioneers in consultation psychiatry, with national reputations for excellence. Recommendations are included for psychotropic drugs that have fewer side effects and are easier to administer, reflecting impartial, experience-based advice on prescribing.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815114788
• ISBN13: 9780815114789
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Mosby
• Length: 688 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and under
• Grade Range: Preschool to Postsecondary

Customer Reviews

A good book

Well written and organized book. Some chapters are better than others and there is a definite bias towards the way Mass General does things. But still a good resource for any C/L Psychiatrist.

Very practical, very useful

This one of those great textbooks that you find has the most practical approach and tips you never knew about before and that perhaps many standard medical textbooks are lacking. You need to use it in association with a standard textbook of psychiatry, but for me this book is a great discovery. I am in my first year of psychaitry training and doing hospital psychiatry. I had to do a presentation for medical students on somatoform disorders and found so many practical suggestions and great cases presentations in the book. Somehow this textbook manages to make reading and learning enjoyable and even more importantly, memorable

Very helpful!

As a practicing psychiatrist with C-L responsibilities, this book has given me the right tool to deal with many clinical issues in the medical and surgical environment. Despite the exhaustive and elaborate details about common topics, each chapter is quick to digest. Indeed, it reads like a handbook but it has the details of a textbook. I highly recommend it especially that this well-written literature has helped me pass the certification in Psychosomatic Medicine (American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology).

Psychiatry as it should be

This is simply the best overview of psychiatry currently available. If you treat human beings--or simply want to understand them better,read this book. Why this one? Medical "literature," unfortunately, is often little more than data-mongering. Data can be interesting, but on its own, it will not help you care for patients competently and compassionately. Very rarely, a medical text goes beyond data and information to knowledge, an informed, balanced, comprehensive, learned, and practical perspective. This book is *always* knowledgeable, but often goes one better,achieving (and conveys) that most rare of medical traits, wisdom. Read this book: your patients, and your practice will be better for it.

All of C & L between the covers of one book!

OK, so it's not ALL of C & L, but it does represent the equivalent of the best review articles of each C & L subject(the way MY hospital teaches the subject.)In fact some of the hints, especially by Dr./Fr. Casem, I have not found anywhere else, and are very practical even at my basic level (I am a psychiatry resident,curently doing my C & L rotation.) My attending was so impressed at my "knowledge" (I'd read the book!), HE went out and bought one, too. If you've an interest in C & L psychiatry, or in the management of "difficult" patients on any hospital service, this book surely tops the list.