This book provides both the evidence and the guidance to enable doctors to improve their assessment and management of the
psychological and behavioural aspects of the most common problems presenting in general medical care. It summarises the recent research evidence and provides common sense guidance on how psychological and
psychiatric aspects of illness can be addressed within the medical consultation. This book may be found useful for many medical practitioners around the world. Also it is useful for psychology students and beginners as it gets him/her familiar with many terms.
Table of Contents include: Introduction, Psychiatric aspects of physical illness, Trauma and head injury, Depression in the medically ill, Anxiety in patients with medical and surgical
disorders, Psychiatric aspects of cancer, Medically unexplained symptoms, Multiple non-organic physical symptoms, Chronic fatigue, Quality of life and illness intrusiveness in chronic disease
Alcohol misuse, Psychosomatic aspects of eating disorders, Psychosomatic aspects of sleep disorders, Psychosomatic aspects of sexual dysfunction, Interview methods,
Helping patients help themselves