Beginnings: psychosomatic medicine and consultation psychiatry in the General Hospital -- Approach to consultation psychiatry: assessment strategies -- The doctor–patient relationship -- The psychiatric interview -- Functional Neuroanatomy and the neurologic examination -- Limbic music -- Psychological and neuropsychological assessment -- Diagnostic rating scales and laboratory tests -- Mood-disordered patients -- delirious patients -- Demented patients -- Psychotic patients -- Anxious patients -- Alcoholic patients: acute and chronic -- Drug-addicted patients -- Functional somatic symptoms, deception syndromes, and somatoform disorders -- Patients with an eating disorder -- Pain patients -- Patients with neurologic conditions I. Seizure disorders (Including nonepileptic seizures), cerebrovascular disease, and traumatic brain injury -- Patients with neurologic conditions II. Movement disorders, multiple sclerosis, and other nurologic conditions -- Catatonia, neuroleptic malignant syndrome, and serotonin syndrome -- Patients with disordered sleep -- The psychiatric management of patients with cardiac disease -- Sexual disorders and sexual dysfunction -- Organ failure and transplantation -- Patients with human immunodeficiency virus infection and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome -- Patients with cancer -- Burn patients -- Chronic medical illness and rehabilitation -- Intensive cal hospital -- psychopharmacology in the medical setting -- Psychopharmacological management of children and adolescents -- Behavioral medicine -- Complementary medicine and natural medications -- Difficult patients -- Emergency psychiatry -- Care of the suicidal patient -- Emergency psychiatry -- Care at the end of life -- Pediatric consultation -- Consultation to parents with serious medical Illness: parenting at a challenging time -- Care of the geriatric patient -- Aggressive and impulsive patients -- Psychiatric illness during pregnancy and the postpartum period -- Culture and psychiatry -- Legal aspects of consultation -- Collaborative care: psychiatry and primary care -- Coping with the rigors of psychiatric practice -- Billing, documentation, and cost-effectiveness of consultation -- Quality assurance and quality improvement on a psychiatric consultation service -- Psychiatric research in the General Hospital -- Medical psychiatry and its future