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Nature and Evolution of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry and Psychosomatic Medicine

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Consultation-liaison (CL) psychiatry refers to the skills and knowledge utilized in evaluating and treating the emotional and behavioral conditions in patients who are referred from medical and surgical settings. Many such patients have comorbid psychiatric and medical conditions, and others have emotional and behavioral problems that result from the medical illness either directly or as a reaction to it and its treatment.

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  1. Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA

    Hoyle Leigh MD, DLFAPA, FACP, FAPM (Professor of Psychiatry, Director)

  2. Psychosomatic Medicine Program & Psychiatric Consultation-Liaison Service, UCSF-Fresno, 155N. Fresno St., Fresno, CA, 93701, USA

    Hoyle Leigh MD, DLFAPA, FACP, FAPM (Professor of Psychiatry, Director)

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  1. Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, Fresno Community Regional Medical Center, Fresno, California, USA

    Hoyle Leigh

  2. University of Hawaii at Manoa Department of Psychiatry, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA

    Jon Streltzer

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Leigh, H. (2015). Nature and Evolution of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry and Psychosomatic Medicine. In: Leigh, H., Streltzer, J. (eds) Handbook of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11005-9_1

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