Psychiatric Services
Volume 37, Issue 2
February 1986
Article
February 1986
Treating a Man With Depression and Chronic Pain Through a Multimodal Approach
- Pages:115–116
- Published Online:1 April 2006
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.37.2.115
Preview Abstract
This month's guest expert is Dr. Stephen Rosenblum, clinical associate professor of psychiatry at the George Washington University School of Medicine in Washington, D.C. He is also in the private practice of psychiatry and psychoanalysis.
February 1986
Deinstitutionalization: What Do the Numbers Mean?
- Pages:118–121
- Published Online:1 April 2006
February 1986
Establishing Alzheimer's Disease Units in Nursing Homes: Pros and Cons
- Pages:120–121
- Published Online:1 April 2006
February 1986
Neuropsychiatric Manifestations of AIDS-Spectrum Disorders
- Pages:135–142
- Published Online:1 April 2006
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.37.2.135
Preview Abstract
Psychiatric symptoms among patients with acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) may be functional reactions to contracting a fatal and stigmatizing disease or may be secondary to malignancies and opportunistic infections in the central nervous system (...
February 1986
Psychiatry Across Borders
- Pages:142–147
- Published Online:1 April 2006
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.37.2.142
Preview Abstract
To gain an understanding of the challenges and opportunities confronting mental health professionals throughout the world, the author sent a brief questionnaire to psychiatric leaders in a diverse group of countries. Questions focused on patient care ...
February 1986
Suicide: A Review of New Directions in Research
- Pages:148–154
- Published Online:1 April 2006
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.37.2.148
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Research on the relationship of diagnosis, genetics, violence, and psychological factors to suicide has changed dramatically during the past 20 years. Within this changing framework the author reviews current research, which focuses on understanding why ...
February 1986
Legal Aspects of the Treatment of Delirium
- Pages:154–158
- Published Online:1 April 2006
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.37.2.154
Preview Abstract
In a medical emergency, a delirious patient can be treated without consent under the common law doctrine of implied consent, but in nonemergency situations legal guidelines are less clear. Implied consent may be extended if measures are taken to safeguard ...
February 1986
Helping the Employee Victim of Violence in Hospitals
- Pages:159–162
- Published Online:1 April 2006
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.37.2.159
Preview Abstract
Violent behavior of patients is an occupational health hazard of health care professionals that the authors believe has not been fully recognized. Hospitals have developed a wide variety of techniques to manage patients who assault staff but have ...
February 1986
A Study of Offenses Committed by Psychotic Inmates in a County Jail
- Pages:163–166
- Published Online:1 April 2006
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.37.2.163
Preview Abstract
Following deinstitutionalization, several studies have documented an increase in the number of mentally ill inmates in prisons. The authors reviewed all referrals to a mental health clinic in a county prison and categorized each case as psychotic or ...
February 1986
Copatient Relationships on a Short-Term Psychiatric Unit
- Pages:166–170
- Published Online:1 April 2006
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.37.2.166
Preview Abstract
Emotional and physical relationships among copatients on a short-term psychiatric unit were assessed in a two-year prospective study. Sixty-four relationships involving 102 patients were reported; the incidence rate was estimated at 10.7 percent. ...
February 1986
Who Will Treat Psychiatrically Disturbed Developmentally Disabled Patients? A Health Care Nightmare
- Pages:171–174
- Published Online:1 April 2006
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.37.2.171
Preview Abstract
The authors assess the impact of a policy adopted briefly in New York State to facilitate short-term hospitalization and long-term aftercare of psychiatrically disturbed, developmentally disabled patients. Denied admission to New York State facilities ...
February 1986
The Psychiatrist as Family Physician
- Pages:175–177
- Published Online:1 April 2006
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.37.2.175
Preview Abstract
One outcome of psychiatry's increasingly medical orientation has been a reconsideration of the psychiatrist's traditional taboo against treating members of the same family individually. The author argues that by modeling themselves after family physicians,...
February 1986
Changing Community Attitudes Toward the Chronic Mentally Ill Through a Psychosocial Program
- Pages:180–182
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February 1986
Understanding Chronic Illness: The Medical and Psychosocial Dimensions of Nine Diseases—by Toba Schwaber Kerson, D.S.W., with Lawrence A. Kerson, M.D.; Free Press, New York, 1985, 369 pages, $24.95
- Page:186
- Published Online:1 April 2006
February 1986
Psychosocial Basis of Health Care, Third Edition—edited by Charles L. Bowden, M.D., and Alvin G. Burstein, Ph.D; Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore, 1983, 300 pages, $19.25, paperbound
- Page:187
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February 1986
Breaking Points—by Jack and Jo Ann Hinckley with Elizabeth Sherrill; Chosen Books, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1985, 375 pages, $16.95
- Pages:187-a–188
- Published Online:1 April 2006
February 1986
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and the War Veteran Patient—edited by William E. Kelly; Brunner/Mazel, New York, 1985, 291 pages, $30
- Pages:188–190
- Published Online:1 April 2006
February 1986
The Trauma of War: Stress and Recovery in Viet Nam Veterans—edited by Stephen M. Sonnenberg, M.D., Arthur S. Blank, Jr., M.D., and John A. Talbott, M.D.; American Psychiatric Press, Washington, D.C., 1985, 454 pages, $24.95
- Pages:188-a–190
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February 1986
Guide to Caring for the Mentally Impaired Elderly—American Association of Homes for the Aging; 1985, 134 pages, paperbound. Available from the AAHA Publications Department, Suite 770, 1050 17th Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036; $15 for AAHA members and $20 for nonmembers, plus $2.35 postage and handling, or at discounts for quantity orders
- Page:190
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February 1986
Community Mental Health Centers and Psychiatrists—published by the American Psychiatric Association and the National Council of Community Mental Health Centers, 1985, 77 pages, paperbound. Single copies available at no charge from the Office of Psychiatric Services, APA, 1400 K Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20005
- Pages:190-a–190
- Published Online:1 April 2006