Overview The purpose of the initial psychiatric interview is to build a relationship and a therapeutic alliance with an individual or a family, and to collect, organize, and synthesize information about present and past thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. The relevant…
Overview The doctor–patient relationship—despite all the pressures of accountable care, complex and demanding electronic health records, and other systemic complications—remains one of the most profound partnerships in the human experience; in it, one person reveals to another his or her…
This chapter provides a practical approach to the assessment of affective, behavioral, and cognitive problems of patients in the general hospital. We first survey the landscape of consultation psychiatry and then identify six broad domains of psychiatric problems commonly encountered…
Psychosomatic Medicine A keen interest in the relationship between the psyche and the soma has been maintained in medicine since early times, and certain ancient physicians (such as Hippocrates) have been eloquent on the subject. A search for the precise…