Ebook ABC of psychological medicine has contents: The consultation, beginning treatment, organising care for chronic illness, depression in medical patients, anxiety in medical patients, functional somatic symptoms and syndromes, chronic multiple functional somatic symptoms, and other contents. | ABC OF PSYCHOLOGICAL MEDICINE Edited by Richard Mayou, Michael Sharpe and Alan Carson ABC OF PSYCHOLOGICAL MEDICINE ABC OF PSYCHOLOGICAL MEDICINE Edited by RICHARD MAYOU Professor of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Warneford Hospital, Oxford MICHAEL SHARPE Reader in Psychological Medicine, University of Edinburgh and ALAN CARSON Consultant Neuropsychiatrist, NHS Lothian and Honorary Senior Lecturer, University of Edinburgh © BMJ Publishing Group 2003 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording and/or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publishers. First published in 2003 by BMJ Books, BMA House, Tavistock Square, London WC1H 9JR British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 0 7279 1556 8 Typeset by Newgen Imaging Systems and BMJ Electronic Production Printed and bound in Spain by GraphyCems, Navarra Cover image depicts computer artwork of a face patterned with vertical lines with a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan in the background. The MRI scan allows the internal features of the head to be seen. At the centre is the nasal cavity (red), and above that is the front part of the brain (blue and red). This region of the brain is part of the cerebrum, and is concerned with conscious thought, personality and memory. With permission from Alfred Pasieka/Science Photo .
