Psychoanalysis in Medicine

Paul Ian Steinberg, MD, is clinical professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia, member of the Western Branch – Canadian Psychoanalytic Society, and assistant editor of the Canadian Journal of Psychoanalysis / Revue canadienne de psychanalyse.

Introduction Part 1; Introduction Part 2: A Little Theory; Part A: Learning from Liaison with Family Medicine; Chapter 1 "Problem Patients": Patients with Significant Personality Disturbance; Chapter 2 Interviewing the Patient; Chapter 3 "Are All My Patients Depressed?" The (Mis-)diagnosis of Depression; Chapter 4 "My Patient is Psychotic": Dealing with a Patient with a Paranoid Delusion about Her Disease; Chapter 5 Holding Patients with Medication: Using Neuroleptics as an Adjunct to Psychotherapy in the Patients with Severe Personality Disorders; Chapter 6 What Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry Offer to Medicine; Part B. Learning from Consultation/Liaison Psychiatry; Chapter 7 Psychoanalytic Approaches to Psychosomatic Medicine; Chapter 8 Psychiatry for the Masses: Broader Indications for Psychiatric Consultation; Chapter 9 Where Does My Patient Fit In? Organizing One’s Diagnostic Thinking In Differentiating Patients according to their Symptoms; Chapter 10 "The Most Unkindest Cut of All": Psychiatric Complications of Surgery in Men; Chapter 11 Psychiatric Diagnosis is not a Diagnosis of Exclusion: A Patient with Insulinoma Presenting for Psychiatric Assessment; Chapter 12 Differentiating Psychiatric and Medical Conditions: A Case of Hyperthyroidism Presenting as Delusional Disorder; Chapter 13 "My Patient is Hysterical": Adrenal Carcinoma and Hypertension Presenting with Catatonic Stupor; Part C. Learning from Inpatient and Day Hospital Psychiatry; Chapter 14 The Mother Who Couldn’t Name Her Child: Problems of Attachment, Identity and The Capacity to Think; Chapter 15 Freud on the Ward: Integration of Psychoanalytic Concepts in the Formulation and Management of Hospitalized Psychiatric Patients;Chapter 16 Psychoanalytic Approaches Integrated into Day Treatment and Inpatient Settings; Part D. Nonclinical Topics; Chapter 17 Attack of Nerves: Oral Examination Anxiety in Physicians; Chapter 18 Healers Caring for Themselves and Each Other: Preventing Suicide in Medical Students, Residents and Ourselves; Chapter 19 Professional Betrayal: Sexual Abuse of Adult Female Patients by Male Physicians.