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Table of Contents:

List of contributors
Preface
Introduction - A personal note
Acknowledgement
1 Functional psychiatric disorders in ICD IO 3
2 The classification of functional psychiatric disorders in DSM-III-R and DSM-IV 16
3 Epidemiology in the study of functional psychiatric disorders of the elderly 31
4 Panic disorders in the elderly 47
5 Obsessive-compulsive disorder in the elderly 62
6 Generalized anxiety and phobic disorders 78
7 The epidemiology of affective disorders in old age 95
8 The outcome of depressive illness in old age 111
9 Pseudodementia in geriatric depression 126
10 Depression in nursing and residential homes 142
11 Depression in primary care settings 163
12 Treatment of depression in the elderly 177
13 Mania in late life: conceptual and clinical issues 212
14 Suicide in the elderly 221
15 Psychosexual disorders 247
16 Substance use and abuse 269
17 The elderly with schizophrenia 287
18A Late onset paranoid disorders: Part I Coming to terms with late paraphrenia 303
18B Late onset paranoid disorders: Part II Paraphrenia, schizophrenia or? 316
19 Community or asylum ? finding a place to care for the elderly psychiatric patient 326
20 A developmental psychology of old age 343
21 The biology of functional psychiatric disorders 355
22 Brain imaging in functional psychiatric disorders of the elderly 377
23 Medical co-morbidity: presentation in a general hospital setting 389
24 Psychiatric aspects of cerebro-vascular disease 407
25 Geriatric psychopharmacology 427
26 Electro-convulsive therapy in later life 440
27 Family therapy 461
28 Group therapy in the elderly 478
29 Integrated psychotherapy of the elderly 499
30 Management of the treatment team in a multidisciplinary framework 518
31 Occupational therapy 522
32 Nursing management 544
33 Social work and the psychiatry of late life 561
34 Music therapy 580
35 Physiotherapy 594
A concluding overview 605
Index 608