Psychiatric aspects of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

This chapter reviewed many of the psychiatric aspects of patients with COPD. It is hoped that this chapter will facilitate an understanding of some of the more common psychological and sociocultural settings in which COPD patients operate and some of the variables that can be utilized to increase these patients' and their families' abilities to adapt by increasing the fit of their environments with the severity of the patients' COPD.