| Description |
ix, 57 pages : illustrations ; 30 cm |
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ABC series from BMJ |
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ABC series from BMJ
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| Contents |
1. The consultation / Linda Gask, Tim Usherwood -- 2. Beginning treatment / Jonathan Price, Laurence Leaver -- 3. Organising care for chronic illness / Michael Von Korff, Russell E. Glasgow, Michael Sharpe -- 4. Depression in medical patients / Robert Peveler, Alan Carson, Gary Rodin -- 5. Anxiety in medical patients / Allan House, Dan Stark -- 6. Functional somatic symptoms and syndromes / Richard Mayou, Andrew Farmer -- 7. Chronic multiple functional somatic symptoms / Christopher Bass, Stephanie May -- 8. Cancer / Craig A. White, Una Macleod -- 9. Trauma / Richard Mayou, Andrew Farmer -- 10. Fatigue / Michael Sharpe, David Wilks -- 11. Musculoskeletal pain / Chris J. Main, Amanda C de C Williams -- 12. Abdominal pain and functional gastrointestinal disorders / Elspeth Guthrie, David Thompson -- 13. Chest pain / Christopher Bass, Richard Mayou -- 14. Delirium / Tom Brown, Michael Boyle |
| Summary |
The increasingly recognised importance of the psychological and social aspects of physical illness are addressed in this text. The interrelationship of psychosocial aspects on medical and surgical conditions, cancer and chronic disease are discussed |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Medicine and psychology.
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Clinical psychology.
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Drugs -- Administration.
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Psychotherapy patients.
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Sick -- Psychology.
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Medicine, Psychosomatic.
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Clinical health psychology.
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Psychology, Clinical.
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Psychology.
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Psychosomatic Medicine -- methods.
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Patients -- psychology.
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Pain -- psychology.
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| Author |
Sharpe, Michael.
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Carson, Alan (Alan J.)
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Mayou, Richard.
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| ISBN |
0727915568 |
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