Psychosomatic Medicine
An International Guide for the Primary Care Setting
Editors: Fritzsche, Kurt, McDaniel, Susan H., Wirsching, Michael (Eds.)
Free Preview- Uniquely global perspective makes book useful across cultures.
- Written for physicians from various specialties as well as nursing staff, social workers and clinical health psychologists
- Integrative with respect to the underlying theoretical approaches, including systemic therapy, psychodynamic and other approaches to psychosocial medicine
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- About this book
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Now in its fully revised and expanded second edition, this volume is the definitive global resource on psychosocial problems. Containing several new chapters and featuring extensively updated contributions from experts in the field, this title takes a uniquely global approach in laying the foundations of bio psychosocial basic care and provides relevant information about the most common mental and psychosomatic problems and disorders. An extension of the cultural aspects of the individual clinical pictures and new contributions from China, Latin America, Russia, Iran, India, Africa and Myanmar, also about migration and mental health accompany this revision.
This book is divided into four sections and begins by explaining the relationship between psychosomatic medicine and primary care. The next part outlines the best practices for diagnosing the most common biopsychosocial problems and mastering the most frequent communication challenges (e.g. biopsychosocial anamnesis, breaking bad news, dealing with difficult patients, family and health systems communication and collaboration). The following section delves into more specific psychosomatic problems such as depressive disorders, posttraumatic stress disorder, addiction, the terminally ill patient and eating disorders, among others. The final section focuses on developing psychosomatic medicine in international settings. Every chapter integrates basic theoretical background and practical skills and includes trans-culturally sensitive material, important for work with patients from different nations.
Psychosomatic Medicine: An International Primer for the Primary Care Setting, second edition is a must-have reference for doctors from various specialties as well as nursing staff, social workers and clinical health psychologists.
- About the authors
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Kurt Fritzsche, MD, Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center Freiburg, Germany
Susan McDaniel, PhD, Department of Family Medicine, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester NY
Michael Wirsching MD, Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center Freiburg, Germany
- Table of contents (29 chapters)
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What Is Psychosomatic Medicine?
Pages 3-16
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Objectives of Training in Psychosomatic Medicine in Primary Care
Pages 17-19
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Traditional Medicine and Psychosomatic Medicine
Pages 21-29
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The Doctor–Patient Relationship
Pages 33-43
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Doctor-Patient Communication
Pages 45-69
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Table of contents (29 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Psychosomatic Medicine
- Book Subtitle
- An International Guide for the Primary Care Setting
- Editors
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- Kurt Fritzsche
- Susan H. McDaniel
- Michael Wirsching
- Copyright
- 2020
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-030-27080-3
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-27080-3
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-27079-7
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-27082-7
- Edition Number
- 2
- Number of Pages
- XXI, 362
- Number of Illustrations
- 21 b/w illustrations, 8 illustrations in colour
- Topics
