Moving beyond the few textbooks within the literature of this subspecialty, this work is thorough, scholarly, and at the same time practical, covering psychiatric illness in medical settings. It captures the diversity of a field in which practitioners differ in their emphasis on the elements of "biopsychosocial," in their opinions, and in their answers to the same questions and combines the latest research with extensive coverage of psychopharmacology in medically ill patients and psychotherapy in medically ill patients.