Part I. General Principles and Approaches: Nature, Evolution, and Practice of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry -- 1.Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry and Psychosomatic Medicine -- 2.The Functions of CL Psychiatry -- 3.The Why and How of Psychiatric Consultation -- 4.Common Reasons for Consultation and their Management -- 5.Psychiatric Consultation in the Emergency Setting -- 6.Interviewing in Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry -- 7.Basic Foundations of Diagnosis, Psychiatric Diagnosis, and Final Common Pathway Syndromes -- 8.Psychopharmacology in Consultation-liaison Psychiatry -- 9.Integrative Care Model of Psychiatry in the Primary Care Setting -- 10.Systems and Ethical Issues in CL Psychiatry: Hospital as a Social System, Sick Role & Doctor Role, Ethical & Legal Issues -- 11.Cultural Aspects of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry -- Part II. Syndromes, Disorders, and Treatment in Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry -- 12.Delirium, Alcohol Intoxication and Withdrawal Syndromes -- 13.Neurocognitive Disorders (Dementias) -- 14.Anxiety and Anxiety Disorders -- 15.Mood Syndromes : Bipolar and Related Disorders and Depressive Disorders -- 16.Trauma and Stressor-Related Disorders I: Acute Stress Disorder, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder -- 17.Trauma and Stressor-Related Disorders 2: Adjustment Disorders -- 18. Dissociative Disorder -- 19.Psychosis -- 20. Substance Use Problems -- 21.Somatic Symptom and Related Disorders (Psychological Factors Affecting Medical Condition, Conversion, Factitious Disorder) -- 22.Chronic Pain -- 23.Somatization, Hypochondriasis (Illness Anxiety Disorder), and Somatization Disorder -- 24. Obsessive Compulsive and Related Disorders -- 25.Patient's Personality, Personality Types and Traits, and Disorders -- 26.Acute Settings and Conditions: Intensive Care Unit, Heart Disease, Stroke,  Seizures -- 27. The Chronic Patient/Palliative Care Settings -- 28.The Kidney Impaired Patient -- 29. The Immune-Compromised Patients- HIV and Organ Transplantation -- 30.The Liver Impaired Patient -- 31.Obstetrics and Gynecology Patients: Menstrual Cycle, Pregnancy, and Postpartum-Related Psychiatric Disorders: Do Hormones Have a Role in Affective State? -- 32.Children and Adolescents -- 33.The Geriatric Patient -- 34.Special Procedures: Intravenous Sedative Interviews, Hoover Test, Hypnosis, Waddell Test.   .