An innovative guide for all physicians, especially psychiatrists, who are challenged to work with complex, resource demanding patients.

Preface; Forewords James Rundell, Roger Kathol, and Wolfgang Soellner; Part I. Introduction: 1. Clinical complexity: the evolving place for a medical-psychiatric coordinating physician; 2. Beyond the physician-patient model: the value of a treatment team for dealing with clinical complexity; Part II. Guidance for Negotiating Clinical Complexity: 3. Sorting out clinical complexity: medical and psychometric testing; 4. The limitations of algorithms: details of two clinically complex treatments; 5. Negotiating the subjectivity and inter-subjectivity of the clinical field: the complexity inherent in clinical work; Part III. Clinical Decisions and their Execution: Accuracy Within Complexity: 6. The intersection of data and clinical judgment: the place of subjectivity in treatment decisions; 7. Clinical strategy: grappling with treatment complexity; 8. Working consensus: the importance of physician-patient collaboration; 9. Linking truing measures: technical and interpersonal precision in work with complex cases; Part IV. The Application of the Model: The Medical-Psychiatric Coordinating Physician: 10. Managing complex treatments: the medical-psychiatric coordinating physician; 11. The medical-psychiatric coordinating physician model: its components, costs, and future; Bibliography; Index.