Psychosomatics

Slideshows

Climate medicine: What was once on the radar of just a handful of physicians has exploded into awareness, alarm, and sometimes debate and skepticism. No matter how you look at it, psychiatrists are on the front lines.

Climate Psychiatry Year in Review

Poll

The reported severity of the complaints in this patient appears grossly out of proportion given gathered information and clinical observations. What's your diagnosis?

Mini Quiz: Assessment of Malingering

Articles

Psychosomatic medicine psychiatrists specialize in managing psychiatric effects of medical treatments and medications.

Challenging Consultations

Beyond psychosocial implications of anxiety disorders, an array of physiological effects may ensue. 

7 Medical Illnesses That May Present as Anxiety

A patient with lupus presents with rash, arthralgias, and altered mental status. Various symptoms, including stupor and mutism, improve with treatment but higher doses of the drug cause more sedation. How would you proceed?

Mini Quiz: Medical Catatonia

An update on emerging trends in psychosomatic medicine to help clinicians address mental health stressors in psychiatric and medical settings. 

Comorbidity Conundrums and Other Brain Teasers

The authors shed light on a disorder that is difficult to diagnose and manage, and offer insights on how to develop an appropriate treatment plan.

Psychogenic Non-Epileptic Seizures: Clinical Issues for Psychiatrists

Renewed interest and emerging systematic data have highlighted the frequency and pattern of catatonic presentations in psychiatric and medical settings, including in critical illness.

Update on Medical Catatonia: Highlight on Delirium

Psychiatrists need to understand the patient’s cancer diagnosis, staging, treatments and their adverse effects, and prognosis to appreciate the challenges the patient is coping with throughout treatment as well as survivorship or end-of-life.

Depression and Anxiety Disorders in Patients With Cancer

A brief psychosocial tool that offers compassionate, tailored care using existential neuroscience, a new perspective for conducting bedside psychotherapy.

Somatoform Disorder

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