edited by Enrique S Garza-Trevino (University of Texas)

The goal of this book is to provide a conceptual framework for understanding the relationship between the “psychological” areas of medicine and the more somatic aspects of health care in our current social environment.

• Psychosomatic Medicine: Past and Present (Z J Lipowski)
• Psychiatric Manifestations of Structural Brain Disease (S E Starkstein et al.)
• Dementia (B Kaim)
• Unfounded Physical Complaints: Conceptual and Epidemiological Aspects (J Escobar)
• Patients Who Amplify Bodily Sensations (A Barsky)
• Psychiatric Manifestations of Complex Partial Seizures (E S Garza-Treviño & L E Hollister)
• Affective Disorders: Diagnostic Assessment and Clinical Considerations (M Gaviria)
• Practical Management of Depressive and Manic Episodes (A Swann)
• Psychiatric Aspects of Gastrointestinal Disease (E S Garza-Trevino)
• Psychiatric Factors in Mitral Valve Prolapse
• The Coronary Prone Personality (D DiNardo-Ekery & W Cooper)
• Psychological Factors in Myocardial Infarction and Sudden Cardiac Death (K DasGupta & J Jefferson)
• Biopsychosocial Aspects of Rheumatoid Arthritis (J R Swenson)
• Eating Disorders: Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa, and Obesity (M Gomez et al.)
• Psychoneuroendocrinology (J R de la Fuente et al.)
• Psychosomatic Considerations of Infertility (D Martinez)
• Sexual Dysfunctions: Psychosomatic Perspectives (K Reamy)
• Psychological Aspects of Organ Transplantation (A Brennan et al.)
• Psychological Distress in Oncology Patients (M Stefanek)
• A Model for Psychotherapy with the Early-Stage Cancer Patients (E Kaufman & K Redding)
• Neuropsychiatric Complications of Cancer and Its Treatment (F Fernandez et al.)
• Benzodiazepines (D Sheehan & M Guerrero)
• Organic and Psychiatric Aspects of Headache (B Kaim)
• Psychosomatic Illness and the Geriatric Patient (J Lesser)
• Disorders of Sphincter Control in Children: Encopresis and Enuresis (R Julian & G Lee-Dukes)
• Psychiatric Aspects of Obstetrics and Gynecology (L H Gise)
• Evaluating Treatments in Medical Psychiatry (M A Warner)