Detecting cancer in dream content.

abstract：:Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is widely used to study brain circuitry in healthy controls and in psychiatry. A major problem of fMRI studies is motion, which affects the quality of images, is a major source of noise, and can confound data if, for example, the experimental groups move differently. Despit...

journal_title：Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic

authors： Lal TM,Baldwin PR,Cai MB,Savjani RR,Eagleman DM,Ress D,Salas R

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As a result of psychotic crises, Vincent van Gogh was hospitalized several times during a period of about a year and a half from December 1888 to May 1890. The author focuses on van Gogh's intense intrapsychic struggle during this relatively brief but critical time. He discusses how van Gogh's painting not only reflec...

journal_title：Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic

authors： Meissner WW

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The concept of borderline personality disorder (BPD) remains problematic despite psychiatrists' general familiarity with its DSM diagnostic criteria. The diagnosis of BPD is frequently based simply on the DSM checklist of traits and symptoms without knowledge of their origins or significance. Misdiagnosis is common, a...

journal_title：Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic

authors： Corradi RB

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Psychodynamic clinicians cite psychic structure and structural changes observed in treatment as sources of important information about unconscious psychological processes and configurations. Empirical studies have had difficulty demonstrating that psychic structure measures something different from psychiatric symptom...

journal_title：Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic

authors： Sundin EC,Armelius BA

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the past decade the treatment of schizophrenia has changed in each of its biopsychosocial domains. Advances in neuroscience, particularly in the knowledge of the receptor site, led to increased effectiveness of antipsychotic medication. Development of more sophisticated psychoeducational and rehabilitative techni...

journal_title：Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic

authors： Munich RL

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study evaluated whether patients with somatic symptom disorder, expressing chronic pain that could not be attributed to a medical condition, would benefit from an 8-week inpatient residence at a psychiatric ward. In the 1-year follow-up after termination the authors examined the extent to which the integrated tre...

journal_title：Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic

authors： Seitz T,Stastka K,Schiffinger M,Rui Turk B,Löffler-Stastka H

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Individuals with obsessive-compulsive-disorder (OCD) may have difficulties in using feedback from rewarding and punishing experiences to optimally guide future decisions. The current aim was to examine how adults with OCD use associative learning feedback to direct attention toward learned stimuli when the action-outc...

journal_title：Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic

authors： O'Brien JL,Jacob ML,King M

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Discrepancies in mental representations between self-aspects and significant others are associated with depression, personality disorders, emotional reactivity, and interpersonal distress. The Computerized Implicit Representation Test (CIRT) is a novel measure developed to assess discrepancies in mental representation...

journal_title：Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic

authors： Piers C,Piers RJ,Fowler JC,Perry JC

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors discuss the countertransference reactions that arise in staff who work in a hospital outpatient clinic with children with HIV and AIDS. Countertransference feelings such as guilt, anger, and helplessness can be easily aroused when working with a young, impoverished, dying population. Factors that precipita...

journal_title：Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic

authors： Mayers AM,Svartberg M

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is not uncommon for patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) to present with symptoms that suggest possible risk. This can include apparent risk, which reflects the content of obsessional fears, and genuine risk arising as the unintended consequence of compulsive behaviors. In both situations, risk can cau...

journal_title：Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic

authors： Lewis A,Stokes C,Heyman I,Turner C,Krebs G

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two hundred sixty-four adolescents were surveyed in order to study the kinds and frequencies of self-comforting strategies they use. Fifty prompts with space to identify additional ones were provided. Significant differences were reported as determined by two-tailed t-tests. Gender was discriminating in both choice an...

journal_title：Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic

authors： Horton PC

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four new antipsychotic medications--clozapine, risperidone, olanzapine, and quetiapine--have been introduced in the United States during the past decade. These new medications now account for the majority of antipsychotic prescriptions. The author reviews specific issues related to the use of traditional antipsychotic...

journal_title：Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic

authors： Schulz SC

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many patients referred to an OB/GYN psychological consultation clinic were found to be suffering from the emotional effects of early traumatization. Obstetrical and gynecological conditions possess a unique power to reactivate psychological damage originally engendered by trauma. A contemporary psychodynamic model of ...

journal_title：Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic

authors： Josephs L

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gender differences favoring women in relation to awareness of the subjective (internal) world are well demonstrated but their origins are poorly understood. We trained 173 12-month-olds to visually fixate a video image in response to an internal cue (opening own mouth), external cue (seeing a face open its mouth), or ...

journal_title：Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic

authors： Watson JS,Futo J,Fonagy P,Gergely G

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many psychoanalysts have offered innovative ideas on the treatment of schizophrenic patients, but none on postpsychotic depression. The author presents a psychoanalytic conceptualization of postpsychotic depression based on Kohut's ideas regarding the development of normal and pathological grandiosity. The main premis...

journal_title：Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic

authors： Potik D

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the literature on siblings of schizophrenic individuals, recurrent experiential themes include guilt feelings, a fear of madness in oneself, and a wish to escape the turbulence that surrounds the schizophrenic person. In psychotherapy conducted by the author with three siblings of schizophrenic individuals, the sib...

journal_title：Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic

authors： Titelman D

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The causes of therapist-patient sex are complex and multidetermined. Efforts to understand why psychotherapists transgress sexual boundaries are hampered by the lure of reductionism and oversimplification. Most of those who examine this issue would prefer to categorize all such therapists as "bad" and "corrupt" as a w...

journal_title：Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic

authors： Gabbard GO

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years, there has been increased attention to the physical complaints of musical performers. Lockwood (1989) reviewed ailments encountered by physicians who treat musicians and maintained that "complaints of purely psychic origin are very unusual" (p. 225). The author disagrees with Lockwood's position. This ...

journal_title：Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic

authors： Nagel JJ

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Self-mutilative behavior is common among patients with multiple personality and other dissociative disorders. Nursing staff members face particular challenges in managing these patients because one act of self-mutilation can disrupt the entire inpatient milieu. The authors present an approach to nursing care that focu...

journal_title：Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic

authors： Pawlicki CM,Gaumer C

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The author hypothesizes that erotomania, or de Clérambault's syndrome, occurs in two forms: the clinically accepted delusional erotomania, in which patients believe that another person is in love with them; and borderline erotomania, in which no delusion is present, yet an extreme disorder of attachment is apparent in...

journal_title：Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic

authors： Meloy JR

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infants' early self-knowledge is acquired most readily in social interactions, because others respond to infants in contingent ways. Recent findings are described, which indicate that infants are sensitive not only to social contingency early in life but also to particular levels of social contingency found in their p...

journal_title：Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic

authors： Bigelow AE

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The author questions the classical psychoanalytic assumptions that anxiety in posttraumatic nightmares arises from the same conflict represented in the manifest content of the nightmare, that such nightmares have no latent content, and that the day residue is insignificant. Such assumptions obscure the function of the...

journal_title：Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic

authors： Lansky MR

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Social phobia is a very frequent mental disorder characterized by an early onset, a chronic unremitting course, severe psychosocial impairments and high socioeconomic costs. To date, no manual for the psychodynamic treatment of social phobia exists. After a brief description of the disorder, a manual for a short-term ...

journal_title：Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic

authors： Leichsenring F,Beutel M,Leibing E

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Psychiatric residency training faces an uncertain future related both to ongoing changes in the health care delivery system and to the current state of knowledge within psychiatry itself. The author discusses issues concerned with financing, models of training, clinical settings, generalist versus subspecialist traini...

journal_title：Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic

authors： Tasman A

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Munchausen syndrome by proxy, in which a seemingly caring and concerned mother is simultaneously harming her child, can best be understood in terms of the mother's need for a relationship with a physician that is rooted in a profound sense of early abandonment. This understanding broadens the definition of perversions...

journal_title：Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic

authors： Schreier HA

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Effective evaluation and management of patients with anxiety disorders require an integrated theoretical model that predicts risk for the disorder as a consequence of constitutional vulnerability shaped by developmental experience and activated or influenced by environmental factors. From this perspective, the author ...

journal_title：Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic

authors： Rosenbaum JF

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Caregiving is the act of attending to someone or of providing services to an individual in need. It is a complex activity, with ethical, psychosocial, and demographic dimensions, as well as clinical, technical, and community service components. The author describes the complexities of caregiving and the burdens on the...

journal_title：Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic

authors： Eisdorfer C

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) tend to experience difficulties with emotion regulation (ER). Treatments designed to address ER difficulties in individuals with ASD are emerging. The authors review cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) and mindfulness-based treatments that have focused on ER difficulties ...

journal_title：Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic

authors： Reyes NM,Pickard K,Reaven J

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Asking patients to interpret proverbs is a traditional method of assessing abstract thinking ability. Familiarity with a proverb increases the likelihood of interpreting it correctly. Differences in proverb familiarity among patients could lead clinicians to incorrectly conclude that a patient is thinking concretely, ...

journal_title：Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic

authors： Haynes RM,Resnick PJ,Dougherty KC,Althof SE

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent discharge from a psychiatric inpatient facility is associated with a high risk of suicide. There are multiple factors that may contribute to this increase in risk. Psychodynamic considerations about the patient's subjective experience of suicidality, hospitalization, and discharge are often overlooked but are c...

journal_title：Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic

authors： Schechter M,Goldblatt MJ,Ronningstam E,Herbstman B,Maltsberger JT

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00