The Patient

On Becoming a Patient: Illness and Help-Seeking Behavior. The Sick Role. Expectations in the Consulting Room. On Being a Patient: Anxiety. Psychological Defense Mechanisms. Depression, Mania, and Suicide. Psychosis. Confusion, Delirium, and Dementia. Pain. Substance Abuse. Sleep and Dreaming. On Assessing a Patient: Approach to a Patient. Current Context. Recent Context. Background Context. On Managing a Patient: The Case of the Sick Tarzan. The Doctor-Patient Relationship. The Patient's Personality. The Hospitalized Patient. Therapeutic Dimensions. Drugs that Affect Behavior. Some Illustrative Patients. Summary and Perspectives. Index.

From a review of the second edition: `This well-written book...[presents] medical and behavioral science information that is both clear and compelling....it is both scholarly and readable.'
Annals of Internal Medicine

Hoyle Leigh, M.D. is currently Professor of Psychiatry at University of California, San Francisco, and Director of the Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychiatric Consultation-Liaison Program at Fresno Community Regional Medical Center in Fresno, California. He is the author of many professional books and journal articles, including the textbooks, Handbook of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry, with Jon Streltzer, M.D., and The Patient: Biological, Psychological, and Social Dimensions of Medical Practice, 3rd Edition, with Morton F. Reiser, M.D. and Biopsychosocial Approaches in Primary Care. Prior to joining the faculty at UCSF, Dr. Leigh was Professor of Psychiatry at Yale University School of Medicine, where he founded the pioneering Yale Behavioral Medicine Clinic with Gary Schwartz, Ph.D., as well as directing the basic behavioral science course and the Psychiatric Consultation-Liaison Service at Yale New Haven Hospital. Dr. Leigh received his M.D. degree summa cum laude from Yonsei University School of Medicine in Korea, and completed residency training in psychiatry at University of Kansas Medical Center and the Montefiore Medical Center in New York.