ABSTRACT
This book shows how contemporary psychoanalytic thinking can be applied in the everyday practice of medicine to enhance the practice of family medicine and all clinical specialties.
Dr. Steinberg analyzes his writings over the past 35 years—on psychiatry and family medicine, liaison psychiatry, and mentoring—based on developments in psychoanalytic thinking. Divided into sections based on different venues of medical practice, including family medicine clinics, inpatient medical and surgical units, and psychiatric inpatient units and outpatient programs, chapters illustrate how various concepts in psychoanalysis can enhance physicians’ understanding and management of their patients. A concluding section contains applications of psychoanalytic thought in non-clinical areas pertinent to medicine, including preventing suicide among physicians, residents, and medical students, sexual abuse of patients by physicians, and oral examination anxiety in physicians.
Readers will learn to apply psychoanalytic concepts with a rational approach that enhances their understanding and management of their patients and practice of medicine generally.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|2 pages
Learning from Liaison with Family Medicine
chapter Chapter 4|8 pages
“My Patient is Psychotic”
chapter Chapter 5|7 pages
Holding Patients with Medication
part II|9 pages
Learning from Consultation/Liaison Psychiatry
chapter Chapter 9|10 pages
Where Does My Patient Fit In?
chapter Chapter 10|14 pages
“The Most Unkindest Cut of All” 2
chapter Chapter 11|3 pages
Psychiatric Diagnosis is Not a Diagnosis of Exclusion
chapter Chapter 12|7 pages
Differentiating Psychiatric and Medical Conditions
chapter Chapter 13|5 pages
“My Patient is Hysterical”
part III|2 pages
Learning from Inpatient and Day hospital Psychiatry
chapter Chapter 14|10 pages
The Mother Who Couldn’t Name Her Child:
chapter Chapter 15|10 pages
Freud on the Ward
chapter Chapter 16|7 pages
Psychoanalytic Approaches Integrated into Day Treatment and Inpatient Settings 3
part IV|34 pages
Non-clinical Topics