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The Patient

Biological, Psychological, and Social Dimensions of Medical Practice

Authors:

  1. Hoyle Leigh

    1. Yale University School of Medicine, Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, USA
      Psychiatric Consultation-Liaison and Outpatient Services, Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, USA

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  2. Morton F. Reiser

    1. Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, USA

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Table of contents (22 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxx
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  2. On Becoming a Patient

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Illness and Help-Seeking Behavior

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      Pages 3-15

    3. The Sick Role

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      Pages 17-24

    4. Expectations in the Consulting Room

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      Pages 25-38

  3. On Being a Patient

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 39-39
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    2. Anxiety

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      Pages 41-76

    3. Psychological Defense Mechanisms

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      Pages 77-98

    4. Depression, Mania, and Suicide: Affective Disorders

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      Pages 99-141

    5. Psychosis

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      Pages 143-175

    7. Pain

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      Pages 209-240

    8. Sleep and Dreaming

      • Hoyle Leigh, Morton F. Reiser
      Pages 241-269

  4. On Assessing a Patient

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 271-271
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    2. Approach to a Patient: The Patient Evaluation Grid

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      Pages 273-291

    3. Current Context

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      Pages 293-308

    4. Recent Context

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      Pages 309-316

    5. Background Context

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      Pages 317-331

  5. On Managing a Patient

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 333-333
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    2. The Case of the “Sick Tarzan”: A Challenging Case History

      • Hoyle Leigh, Morton F. Reiser
      Pages 335-338
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About this book

The old-fashioned doctor, whose departure from the modern medical scene is so greatly lamented, was amply aware of each patient's per­ sonality, family, work, and way of life. Today, we often blame a doctor's absence of that awareness on moral or ethical deficiency either in medical education or in the character of people who become physicians. An alternative explanation, however, is that doctors are just as moral, ethical, and concerned as ever before, but that a vast amount of additional new information has won the competition for attention. The data available to the old-fashioned doctor were a patient's history, phys­ ical examination, and "personal profile," together with a limited number of generally ineffectual therapeutic agents. A doctor today deals with an enormous array of additional new information, which comes from X-rays, biopsies, cytology, electrographic tracings, and the phantas­ magoria of contemporary laboratory tests, and the doctor must also be aware of a list of therapeutic possibilities that are both far more effective and far more extensive than ever before.
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Yale University School of Medicine, Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, USA

    Hoyle Leigh

  • Psychiatric Consultation-Liaison and Outpatient Services, Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, USA

    Hoyle Leigh

  • Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, USA

    Morton F. Reiser

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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Patient

  • Book Subtitle: Biological, Psychological, and Social Dimensions of Medical Practice

  • Authors: Hoyle Leigh, Morton F. Reiser

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-4955-6

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Hoyle Leigh and Morton F. Reiser 1985

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4684-4957-0Published: 08 April 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4684-4955-6Published: 08 March 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXX, 458

  • Number of Illustrations: 24 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Psychiatry, Popular Science in Medicine and Health

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