For generations of practitioners, the Massachusetts General Hospital Handbook of General Hospital Psychiatry has been and is the "gold standard" guide to consultation-liaison psychiatry and psychosomatic medicine. The fully updated 7th Edition, by Drs. Theodore A. Stern, Oliver Freudenreich, Felicia A. Smith, Gregory L. Fricchione, and Jerrold F. Rosenbaum, provides an authoritative, easy-to-understand review of the diagnosis, evaluation, and treatment of psychiatric problems experienced by adults and children with medical and surgical conditions.

1. Beginnings: Psychosomatic Medicine and Consultation Psychiatry in the General Hospital2. Approach to Psychiatric Consultations in the General Hospital3. The Doctor-Patient Relationship4. The Psychiatric Interview5. Functional Neuroanatomy and the Neurologic Examination6. Limbic Music - The Band Plays On7. Psychological and Neuropsychological Assessment8. Diagnostic Rating Scales and Laboratory Tests9. Depressed Patients10. Delirious Patients11. Patients with Neurocognitive Disorders12. Psychotic Patients13. Anxious Patients14. Patients with Alcohol Use Disorder15. Patients with Substance Use Disorders16. "Psychosomatic Conditions¿: Somatic Symptom and Related Disorders, Functional Somatic Syndromes, and Deception Syndromes17. Patients with an Eating Disorder18. Pain Patients19. Patients with Seizure Disorders20. Patients with Cerebrovascular Disease and Traumatic Brain Injury21. Patients with abnormal movements22. Patients with Infectious or Inflammatory Neuropsychiatric Impairment23. Catatonia, Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome, and Serotonin Syndrome24. Patients with Disordered Sleep25. Sexual Disorders or Sexual Dysfunction 26. The Psychiatric Management of Patients with Cardiac Disease27. Patients with Renal Disease28. Patients with Gastrointestinal Disease29. Organ Failure and Transplantation30. Patients with Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection and Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome31. Patients with Cancer32. Burn Patients33. Chronic Medical Illness and Rehabilitation34. Intensive Care Unit Patients35. Patients with Genetic Syndromes36. Coping with Illness and Psychotherapy of the Medically Ill37. Electroconvulsive Therapy and Neurotherapeutics38. Psychopharmacology in the Medical Setting39. Psychopharmacological Management of Children and Adolescents40. Mind-Body Medicine41. Chronic Disease and Unhealthy Habits: Behavioral Management42. Complementary Medicine and Natural Medications43. Difficult Patients44. Care of the Suicidal Patient45. Emergency Psychiatry46. Care at the End of Life47. Pediatric Consultation48. Care of the Geriatric Patient49. Psychiatric Illness During Pregnancy and the Postpartum Period50. Culture and Psychiatry51. Legal Aspects of Consultation52. Approaches to Collaborative Care and Behavioral Health Integration53. Physician Well-Being and Coping with the Rigors of Psychiatric Practice54. Management of a Psychiatric Consultation Service