John Warren Barnhill, M.D.
Psychiatry
Publications
Editor, Approach to the Psychiatric Patient, APPI Press, 2008. This book is a broad introduction to the complexity of psychiatry. Each of its 10 chapters focuses on a single patient, and each chapter consists of about 10 short essays that discuss an aspect of the patient. All of the over 100 authors are affiliated with either Weill Cornell or Columbia's medical schools. In this book, Dr. Barnhill wrote or co-wrote sections on the doctor-patient relationship, countertransference, hospital psychodynamics, the emergency evaluation, delirium, capacity, and consultation-liaison psychiatry. More information can be obtained here: http://www.appi.org/book.cfm?id=62300
Associate Editor, Psychiatry In-Review Study Guide, Education Testing and Assessment Services. Since 2006, it has been published annually and distributed to all graduating psychiatry residents in the country. In this book, Dr. Barnhill authored or co-authored sections on somatoform disorders, delirium, and consultation-liaison psychiatry.
Co-authored chapters in The Psychiatric Interview in Clinical Practice, APPI Press, 2006, which was written by MacKinnon, Michels, and Buckley. Chapters that he helped write include The Hospitalized Patient; The Cognitively Impaired Patient; and The Psychosomatic Patient.
Recent, representative peer-reviewed journal articles:
Schellhorn S, Barnhill JW, Ferrando SJ.A Comparison of Psychiatric Consultation between Geriatric and Non-Geriatric Inpatients. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry 2009; 24: 1054-1061
Kunkel, EJ, Busto E, Kathol R, Stern TA, Wise T, Stoddard FR, Straus J, Saravay SM, Muskin PR, Dresner, N, Harrington CJ, Weiner J, Barnhill JW, Becker M, Oyesanmi O, Fann JR, Colon E, Epstein S, Weinreb R. Physician Staffing for the Practice of Psychosomatic Medicine in the General Hospital: A Pilot Study. Psychosomatics 2010 51: 520-527
Dickerman A, Barnhill JW. Abnormal Thyroid Function Tests in Psychiatry: A Red Herring? American Journal of Psychiatry, 2012 169:134-140
Recent journal reviewer for Academic Psychiatry, The American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, The American Journal of Psychiatry, The Harvard Review of Psychiatry, Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, Psycho-Oncology, and Psychosomatics, and has been on the Editorial Board of Academic Psychiatry and American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine.