Historical Context -- History of Plagues and Their Impact on Human Civilizations -- Pandemics and Modern Medicine -- Pandemics and Psychiatry -- Spanish flu of 1918 -- Smallpox Outbreak of 1972 -- HIV Epidemic -- SARS (2003) -- Ebola Outbreak 2015 -- MERS -- Zika Virus Outbreak -- Contagion as a Psychological Concept -- Emotional Epidemiology -- Cultural Aspects of a Pandemic -- Managing Public Perceptions and the Use of Social Media -- Effect on Mental health Patients -- Burden on Healthcare Personnel -- Psychological Challenges for Institutions and Communities -- History of Quarantine -- Mental Health Challenges Associated with Quarantine and Isolation -- Care for Individuals in Quarantine and Patients in Isolation -- Mental Health Aspects of Immunization and Vaccination -- Addressing Vaccine Hesitancy -- Mental health Care for Survivors -- Mental Health Care for Family Members of the Patients -- Mental Health Care and Psychological Support for Healthcare Personnel.

This book focuses on how to formulate a mental health response to a massive infectious disease outbreak, including a pandemic outbreak. The book combines an emergency mental health response utilized by disaster psychiatry with clinical aspects and expertise on infectious diseases mental health developed by consultation-liaison psychiatry, making it an excellent resource for tackling each stage of an infectious outbreak crisis quickly and thoroughly. The book opens by contextualizing the issues with a historical overview of pandemics ranging from plagues of ancient times, through Black Death in the Middle Ages, Spanish flu pandemic of 1918, to outbreaks of modern times, including HIV, Ebola, and Zika. The text acknowledges the new infectious disease challenges presented by climate changes and bioterrorism and considers how to implement systems to prepare for these issues from an infection and social perspective. The manuscript then delves into the mental health aspects of these crises, including community and cultural responses, emotional epidemiology, and mental health concerns in the aftermath of a disaster. Finally, the text considers medical responses to situation-specific trauma, including quarantine and isolation-associated trauma, the mental health aspects of immunization and vaccination (including vaccine hesitancy), survivor mental health, and support for healthcare personnel, thereby providing guidance for some of the most alarming situations facing the medical community organizing a mental health response to an infectious outbreak. Written by experts in the field, Psychiatry of Pandemics is an excellent resource for infectious disease specialists, psychiatrists, psychologists, immunologists, hospitalists, public health officials, nurses, disaster mental health workers, and all medical professionals who may work with patients in an infectious disease outbreak.