Somatic Disorders
Evidence-Based Reviews
Is your patient’s dizziness psychogenic?
6 questions can help you narrow the diagnosis and rule out medical causes
Evidence-Based Reviews
Treating affective illness in patients with chronic pain
They resist psychiatric assessment, but you can change ‘patients with pain’ to ‘clients managing pain’
Evidence-Based Reviews
Hypnosis: Brief interventions offer key to managing pain and anxiety
Hypnosis can help patients safely examine traumatic experiences, then restructure how they think and feel about them.
Evidence-Based Reviews
Brain/body connection: Treating depression in patients with cardiovascular disease
Depression often precedes coronary disease by about 30 years& suggesting possible cause and effect.
Cases That Test Your Skills
Beware the men with toupees
Mr. S’ worsening depression and paranoia baffle clinicians. A detailed look at his medical history suggests an illness that is often overlooked in...
Evidence-Based Reviews
Tardive dyskinesia: How to prevent and treat a lingering nemesis
Make informed therapeutic choices as you weigh antipsychotics’ benefits against the risk of triggering TD
Evidence-Based Reviews
A low-frustration strategy for treating somatization
Psychotherapy that is educational, supportive, and reassuring can change patients’ persistent beliefs that they are physically ill.
Evidence-Based Reviews
Irritable bowel syndrome and psychiatric illness: Three clinical challenges
Target specific symptoms, consider possible drug-drug interactions, and watch for underlying life-threatening complications.
Commentary
Visual hallucinations and drug therapy
Cases That Test Your Skills
Birds, butterflies and bullfrogs: When patients ‘see things’
For 3 months, vivid and sometimes horrifying visual hallucinations have tormented Ms. K, although she does not appear to be psychotic. How can we...