This book contains easy-to-use summaries, web resources, checklists, flowcharts, and worksheets found here - all designed to teach the process of psychiatric consultation. Intended as a companion guide to comprehensive but encyclopedic textbooks in psychosomatic medicine, this concise volume combines medication updates with ?how-to? strategies for the psychiatric treatment of patients with cardiovascular, hepatic, renal, pulmonary disease and gastrointestinal symptoms. Chapters are arranged by organ-system, e.g., The Patient With Kidney Disease, The Cardiovascular Patient, for easy reference. Each chapter summarizes the literature, emphasizing diagnostic and treatment considerations for patients with psychiatric symptoms and medical illnesses. Individual chapters cover delirium, pregnancy (a standalone monograph on the treatment of psychiatric illness in pregnancy), HIV, hepatitis C, steroid-induced psychiatric syndromes, and organ transplants.