Functional psychiatric disorders of the elderly
By: edited by Edmond Chiu, David Ames.
Contributors: Chiu, Edmond.; Ames, David, 1954-.
Edition: 1st pbk ed.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York, NY, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 623
ISBN-13: 9780521026765
Subjects: Geriatric psychiatry.; Older people -- Mental health.
Notes: Based on a symposium held in Melbourne, Australia in 1990 by the Geriatric Psychiatry Section of the World Psychiatric Association.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: PART 1: CLASSIFICATION: Functional psychiatric disorders in ICD / Norman Sartorius, T. Bedirhan Ustun; title: The classification of functional psychiatric disorders in DSM-III-R and DSM-IV / Peter Rabins, Marshal Folstein; title: PART 2: GENERAL EPIDEMIOLOGY: Epistemiology in the study of functional psychiatric disorders of the elderly / Robin Eastwood; title: PART 3: NEUROSES: Panic disorders in the elderly / Fiona Judd, Graham Burrows; title: Obsessive-compulsive disorder in the elderly / John Tiller; title: Generalized anxiety and phobic disorders / James Lindesay, Sube Banerjee; title: PART 4: AFFECTIVE DISORDERS: The epidemiology of affective disorders in old age / John Snowdon; title: The outcome of depressive illness in old age / Peter Burvill; title: Pseudodementia in geriatric depression / Rotimi Batulaiye, George S. Alexopoulos; title: Depression in nursing and residential homes / David Ames; title: Depression in primary care settings / Martin Blanchard, Anthony Mann; title: ^Treatment of depression to the elderly / Henry Brodaty, Kaarin Anstey; title: Mania in late life: conceptual and clinical issues / Ken Shulman; title: Suicide in the elderly / Ajit Shah, Thirunavukarasu Ganesvaran; title: PART 5: PSYCHOSEXUAL DISORDERS: Psychosexual disorders / John Kellett; title: PART 6: SUBSTANCE USE AND ABUSE: Substance use and abuse / Stephen Ticehurst; title: PART 7: SCHIZOPHRENIA AND RELATED PSYCHOSES: The elderly with schizophrenia / Heinz Hafner, Martin Hambrecht; title: Late onset paranoid disorders: Part I: Coming to terms with late paraphrenia / Psvaldo Almeida, Robert Howard, Hans Forstl, Raymond Levy; title: Part II: Paraphrenia, schizophrenia, or ? / Peter Rabins, Godfrey Pearlson; title: Community or asylum? : finding a place to care fot he elderly psychiatric patient / Chris Gilleard; title: PART 8: PSYCHOLOGICAL, BIOLOGICAL AND MEDICAL ISSUES: A developmental psychology of old age / Sid Williams; title: The biology of functional psychiatric disorders / Michael Philpot; title: ^Brain imaging in functional psychiatric disorders of the elderly / Robert Howard, Barbara Beats; title: Medical co-morbidity: presentation to a general hospital setting / Brice Pitt; title: Psychiatric aspects of cerebro-vascular disease / Peter Burvill; title: PART 9: TREATMENT METHODS: Geriatric psychopharmacology / Brian Leonard; title: Electro-convulsive therapy in later life / Susan Benbow; title: Family therapy / Barbara Knothe, Peter McArdle; title: Group therapy in the elderly / Sanford Finkel, Paul Metler, Wendy Wasson, Karen Berte [et al.]; title: Integrated psychotherapy of the elderly / Joel Sadavoy; title: Management of the treatment team in a multidisciplinary framework / Edmond Chiu; title: Occupational therapy / Kristine Alexander; title: Nursing management / Jan Tinney; title: Social work and the psychiatry of late life / Elizabeth Ozanne; title: Music therapy / Ruth Bright; title: Physiotherapy / Karen Webster, Joan McMecken; title: PART 10: CONCLUSION: A concluding overview / Brian Davies.