Cases: organic and substance-related disorders

Chapter 16

Cases: organic and substance-related disorders

5 topics

  1. Case 2: An older woman found confused in the parkThe daughter of a 75-year-old woman who lives alone asks for advice, because her mother leaves the door unlocked and the taps running and has twice been found confused in the park.
  2. Case 13: An older man who pulls out his drip after surgeryAn 82-year-old man in surgical intensive care a few days after an operation for rectal cancer, who is frightened, restless and trying to pull out his drip.
  3. Case 26: A man after surgery who sees cockroaches on the wallsA 60-year-old man with a long history of heavy drinking who, three days after an emergency operation for acute pancreatitis, becomes tense, sleepless and thinks he is in a hotel.
  4. Case 27: A woman who mistakes her reflection for her motherA 68-year-old woman, brought by her family, who has been getting lost in her own neighbourhood, burning clothes with the iron, and taking her reflection for her mother.
  5. Case 30: A man who sees squirrels in his room on his third day in hospitalA 56-year-old man admitted to a psychiatric ward to stop drinking who, on his third day there, becomes confused, frightened and tremulous and says there are squirrels in his room.