Title Functional psychiatric disorders of the elderly / edited by Edmond Chiu, David Ames

Published Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 1994

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Description xxv, 623 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm Contents Machine derived contents note: Part I. Classification: 1. Functional psychiatric disorders in ICD 10 -- 2. The classification of functional psychiatric disorders in DSM IIIR and DSM IV -- Part II. General Epidemiology: 3. Epidemiology in the study of functional psychiatric disorders of the elderly -- Part III. Neuroses: 4. Panic disorders in the elderly -- 5. Obsessive-compulsive disorder in the elderly -- 6. Generalized anxiety and phobic disorders -- Part IV. Affective Disorders: 7. The epidemiology of affective disorders in old age -- 8. The outcome of depressive illness in old age -- 9. Pseudodementia in geriatric depression -- 10. Depression in nursing and residential homes -- 11. Depression in primary care settings -- 12. Treatment of depression in the elderly -- 13. Mania in late life: conceptual and clinical issues -- 14. Suicide in the elderly -- Part V. Psychosexual Disorders: 15. Psychosexual disorders -- Part VI. Substance Use and Abuse -- 16. Substance use and abuse -- Part VII. Schizophrenia and Related Psychoses: 17. The elderly with schizophrenia -- 18. Late onset paranoid disorders -- 19. Community or asylum? -- Part VIII. Psychological, Biological and Medical Issues: 20. A developmental psychology of old age -- 21. The biology of functional psychiatric disorders -- 22. Brain imaging in functional psychiatric disorders of the elderly -- 23. Medical co-morbidity -- 24. Psychiatric aspects of cerebro-vascular disease -- Part IX. Treatment Methods -- 25. Geriatric psychopharmacology -- 26. Electro-convulsive therapy in later life -- 27. Family therapy -- 28. Group therapy in the elderly -- 29. Integrated psychotherapy of the elderly -- 30. Management of the treatment team in a multidisciplinary framework -- 31. Occupational therapy -- 32. Nursing management -- 33. Social work and the psychiatry of late life -- 34. Music therapy -- 35. Physiotherapy -- Part X. A Concluding Overview Notes Based on a symposium held in Melbourne, Australia in 1990 by the Geriatric Psychiatry Section of the World Psychiatric Association Includes and index Bibliography Includes bibliographcial references Subject Geriatric psychiatry. Older people -- Mental health. Aged. Mental Disorders. Author Ames, David, 1954- Chiu, Edmond. World Psychiatric Association. Geriatric Psychiatry Section. Symposium (1990 : Melbourne, Vic.) LC no. 93033740 ISBN 0521431603 (hbk.)

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