The Psychiatry of Palliative Medicine. The Dying Mind
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Author(s): S. Macleod
Publisher: Radcliffe Medical Press
ISBN: 9781846190926
Format: softback
168pp
Price: £24.95, $49.95
Review Date: 22 June 2007
Review: Up to now there have never been a sufficient number of psychiatrists interested in working with the dying. Here Sandy MacLeod draws on his experience in consultation-liaison psychiatry and palliative medicine to investigate the important areas in palliative medicine where a pragmatic knowledge of psychiatry will enable staff to help their patients. He takes a sympathetic look at the major syndromes encountered in palliative care: depression, anxiety and delirium and discusses appropriate psychopharmacological and psychological interventions. He also examines the psychiatric aspects of pain, sleep, cognitive impairment, terminal neurodegenerative diseases and artificial feeding.