262 Pages
by
CRC Press
262 Pages
by
CRC Press
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This Second Edition of The Psychiatry of Palliative Medicine remains a practical and pragmatic distillation of the psychiatry relevant to the terminally ill. Revised throughout and greatly expanded by the addition of two entirely new chapters, it reviews the major psychiatric syndromes encountered in palliative care - depression, anxiety, delirium - and examines psychopharmacological and... Read more
Psychiatry and palliative medicine. Adjustment and anxiety. Psychological issues and dying. Families and caregivers. Psychiatry, spirituality and palliative medicine. Pain and psychiatry. Other symptoms and the psyche. Depression. Delirium. Sleep, sedation and coma. Neoplasms. Cognitive dysfunction and dementia. Terminal neurological disorders. Chronic mental illness and dying. Euthanasia and psychiatry. Psychopharmacology.
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Sandy MacLeod
