Includes bibliographical references and index.

The ins and outs of 200 years of psychiatric hospitals in the USA / Jeffrey L. Geller, Sarah Guzofski, and Margo Lauterbach -- Psychosocial approach to the psychiatric inpatient / Richard Munich -- Pharmacological approach to the psychiatric inpatient / Arash Ansari ... [et al.] -- General-medical evaluation and management of the psychiatric inpatient / Fred Ovsiew and David Lovinger -- Neuropsychiatric approach to the psychiatric inpatient / Fred Ovsiew -- Psychiatric administration / L. Mark Russakoff -- Legal issues in inpatient psychiatry / Gabor Vari, Mace Beckson, and Robert Weinstock -- Psychiatric education on the inpatient unit / Cynthia A. Pristach and Subhdeep Virk -- Hospital treatment of depression and mania / Stan D. Arkow, Susan Turner, and David A. Kahn -- Electroconvulsive therapy / Walter Knysz III and C. Edward Coffey -- Inpatient evaluation and management of first-episode psychosis / Richard Fraser, Peter Burnett, and Patrick McGorry -- Inpatient agitation and aggression / Eila Sailas, Alice Keski-Valkama, and Kristian Wahlbeck -- Recurrently readmitted inpatient psychiatric patients : characteristics and care / William H. Sledge and Christine L. Dunn -- The patient with borderline personality disorder / Anthony W. Bateman -- Evaluation and management of substance use disorders on the inpatient psychiatric unit / Christine Yuodelis-Flores ... [et al.] -- The elderly psychiatric inpatient / Vassilios Latoussakis ... [et al.] -- The brain-injured or developmentally disabled psychiatric inpatient / David Arciniegas -- The medically ill or pregnant psychiatric inpatient / James J. Amos -- Inpatient treatment of eating disorders / Wayne A. Bowers, Arnold Andersen, and Kay Evans -- The child or adolescent psychiatric inpatient / Flynn O'Malley and Norma V.L. Clarke.

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