abstract：:The study attempted to determine the extent of dissociative experiences and the prevalence of dissociative disorders (DDs) in a series of acute psychiatric inpatients and to correlate these experiences and disorders with some sociodemographic, clinical, and historical variables. A total of 207 consecutively admitted p...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： Modestin J,Ebner G,Junghan M,Erni T

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have suggested an association between childhood physical and sexual abuse and adult dissociative experiences. The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship of both childhood and adult-onset abuse and their characteristics for adult dissociative symptoms. One hundred forty-four psychiatric ...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： Lipschitz DS,Kaplan ML,Sorkenn J,Chorney P,Asnis GM

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Age-specific suicide rates in the United States between 1951 and 1988 were shown in cohort, cross-sectional, and age group formats. Despite considerable variation among women and younger and older men, suicide rates among 40- to 44-year-old men have remained stable. Since suicide is strongly influenced by psychosocial...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： Riggs JE,McGraw RL,Keefover RW

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the initial results from a prospective study designed to assess patients' functional outcome and level of service utilization following psychiatric hospitalization. All patients admitted between March 31, 1993 and April 1, 1994 were interviewed at admission and discharge, and 350 consenting patients were rea...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： Goethe JW,Dornelas EA,Fischer EH

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The overall purpose of the present study was to further our understanding of the mechanisms of self-mutilative behavior in a sample of female inpatients. The study found that self-mutilators (n = 103) displayed a greater degree of dissociative symptoms and alexithymia and a greater number of self-injurious behaviors, ...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： Zlotnick C,Shea MT,Pearlstein T,Simpson E,Costello E,Begin A

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies conducted in the United States and Japan indicate that diabetes mellitus is more common among schizophrenic patients than among the general population. The prevalence of known diabetes was examined in 95 schizophrenic patients aged 45 to 74 years admitted to a long-term care facility in Italy. The overall prev...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： Mukherjee S,Decina P,Bocola V,Saraceni F,Scapicchio PL

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to develop and test the Talbieh Brief Distress Inventory (TBDI), a 24-item self-report questionnaire that measures psychological distress among immigrants. The TBDI combines items from the Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI) and the Psychiatric Epidemiology Research Interview Demoralization Sca...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： Ritsner M,Rabinowitz J,Slyuzberg M

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study investigates identity disorders in schizophrenics and borderlines. Nineteen schizophrenics and 17 borderlines were compared with 18 normal controls. The technique used was an adapted version of the repertory grid test to describe the self and nine significant others (i.e., family members). Three indi...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： de Bonis M,De Boeck P,Lida-Pulik H,Féline A

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The emergence of obsessive-compulsive symptoms during clozapine treatment has been reported in recent case studies, yet the incidence and significance of this finding is still unclear pending reliable data from a larger sample of patients. Hospital records of 142 randomly selected inpatients started on clozapine treat...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： Ghaemi SN,Zarate CA Jr,Popli AP,Pillay SS,Cole JO

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We hypothesized that communication disturbances in the form of unclear linguistic references in schizophrenia are associated with excess-related pathophysiologic processes in some individuals and deficit-related processes in others. We divided a sample of 28 acutely ill schizophrenic inpatients into two groups: those ...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： Docherty NM

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Some patients with Tourette's syndrome (TS) remain disabled despite conventional treatment. Recently, neurosurgical procedures have been reported to be potentially effective interventions for such intractable cases. Clinicians are now being asked to make recommendations to patients about these candidate operations. Th...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： Rauch SL,Baer L,Cosgrove GR,Jenike MA

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifty-one adolescent-onset anorexia nervosa (AN) cases recruited after community screening were compared with 51 age-, sex-, and school-matched cases with regard to personality disorders and autism-spectrum disorders (ASD)/empathy disorders at age 21 years. All 102 cases had originally been examined at a mean age of 1...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： Gillberg IC,Råstam M,Gillberg C

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Childhood sexual abuse has been associated with adult dissociative symptomatology. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between specific characteristics of sexual abuse and dissociative experiences in adulthood. Fifty-six female inpatients with a history of physical abuse and severe sexual abuse r...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： Zlotnick C,Begin A,Shea MT,Pearlstein T,Simpson E,Costello E

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study measured self-reported aggression, hostility, and anger in Vietnam combat veterans with (n = 27) and without (n = 15) posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). On the Buss-Durkee Hostility Inventory, Past Feelings and Acts of Violence Scale, Episodic Dyscontrol Scale, and State-Trait Anger Expression Inventory ...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： Lasko NB,Gurvits TV,Kuhne AA,Orr SP,Pitman RK

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although previous studies have suggested the inadequacy of the two-factor models of positive and negative symptoms in schizophrenia, confirmatory testing of the putative three-factor models is needed. Using a sample of 193 individuals diagnosed with schizophrenia, this study tested the relative goodness-of-fit of one-...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： Brekke JS,DeBonis JA,Graham JW

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The current status of subjective experiences in schizophrenia is examined. Subjective experiences are very frequent disorders in schizophrenic patients, and their study has been largely neglected. Recently, a number of scales that evaluate subjective experiences have been published, and although the psychometric prope...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： Peralta V,Cuesta MJ

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical descriptions of 14 adults with mild autism are presented. Structured questionnaires, extensive medical and social histories, and mental status examinations were conducted independently by several clinicians who concurred with the diagnoses of autism. These 14 patients demonstrate (1) that mild forms of autism...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： Ritvo ER,Ritvo R,Freeman BJ,Mason-Brothers A

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The object of this study is to assess the internal validity of DSM-III personality constructs and to explore whether the constituent elements are better explained by an alternate internally coherent classification. A two-stage stratified random sample of subjects identified at the Baltimore site of the Epidemiologic C...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： Nestadt G,Eaton WW,Romanoski AJ,Garrison R,Folstein MF,McHugh PR

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to determine whether American psychiatrists have switched from DSM-III to DSM-III-R as their primary diagnostic reference, and to examine what factors predicted the continued use of DSM-III. In 1989, we conducted a mail survey of practicing psychiatrists (N = 454), residency program direc...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： Zimmerman M,Jampala VC,Sierles FS,Taylor MA

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this report, a first comprehensive description of the clinical features of patients with organic mood syndrome, depressed type (OMS-D), in a psychiatric hospital population is presented. This description is based on information from 130 OMS-D patients among 14,889 patients who presented for initial evaluation over ...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： Cornelius JR,Fabrega H Jr,Mezzich J,Cornelius MD,Ulrich RF

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Demoralization may be viewed as a combination of distress and subjective incompetence. The main problem in demoralization is the sense of incompetence experienced by the demoralized individual; this sense of incompetence results from uncertainty as to the appropriate direction of action. By contrast, the major difficu...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： de Figueiredo JM

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two hundred twenty-four first-degree relatives of patients with psychotic disorders were administered the Structured Interview for DSM-III Personality Disorders (SIDP) and completed a self-report instrument to assess dimensions of the five-factor model of personality. All of the DSM-III personality disorders were rela...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： Yeung AS,Lyons MJ,Waternaux CM,Faraone SV,Tsuang MT

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Crying is a common human behavior that is encountered in varied clinical settings. However, its relationship to mood and psychiatric disorders remains unclear. In this report, the relevant literature on the relationship of crying behavior and psychiatric disorders is reviewed. Two clinically distinct types of crying b...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： Patel V

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe our experience with a case of folie à famille with role reversal, including the long-term course. In addition, the case reports published since 1974 were reviewed and an overview is given of the psychoanalytic and system theory concepts on the pathogenesis of induced psychotic disorder. The inductor often ...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： Mentjox R,van Houten CA,Kooiman CG

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The symptomatological and diagnostic differentiations and outcome of acute psychosis were studied in 50 Egyptian patients using the Schedule of Clinical Assessment of Acute Psychotic States (SCAAPS). The prevailing symptoms were delusions, worry, irritability, mood changes, and disturbed behavior. Sixty-four percent o...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： Okasha A,el Dawla AS,Khalil AH,Saad A

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have reported elsewhere the development of a brief version of the Parental Bonding Instrument (PBI), which we have called the Parental Bonding Instrument-Brief Current form (PBI-BC), for use in survey research in adolescent samples. It was shown in that report that PBI-BC retained the factor structure of the origin...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： Klimidis S,Minas IH,Ata AW,Stuart GW

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study investigated the association of specific personality characteristics with agoraphobia, and whether they predicted long-term outcome following a group cognitive behavior therapy program. Thirty-three patients with agoraphobia with panic attacks, 18 with social phobia, and 26 "normals" were used in the...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： Clair AL,Oei TP,Evans L

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Advances in the neurobiology of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) have raised the possibility that animal models in general and neuroethological models in particular may be useful in understanding and investigating this illness. One neuroethologically oriented model is that of canine acral lick dermatitis. In this r...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： Stein DJ,Shoulberg N,Helton K,Hollander E

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical vignettes of patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD) and schizotypal personality disorder (STPD) were evaluated and rated for evidence of cognitive and perceptual distortions. The differences in the distortions of each group were then compared. The findings show that while STPD patients have signi...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： Sternbach SE,Judd PH,Sabo AN,McGlashan T,Gunderson JG

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rates of comorbid personality disorders in patients with panic disorder are reported to be elevated, have an adverse impact on the response to treatment, and increase the likelihood of relapse on treatment discontinuation. We examined the rates of personality disorders in panic disorder patients in a longitudinal,...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： Pollack MH,Otto MW,Rosenbaum JF,Sachs GS

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ten normal, wakeful, young (average age, 25.3 +/- 6.6 years) male subjects received positron emission tomographic (PET) scans 45 to 120 minutes after an infusion of D-[18 F]deoxyglucose in order to assess localized cerebral glucose metabolic rates during silent visual and other sensory imagery and cognitive mentation....

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： Gottschalk LA,Buchsbaum MS,Gillin JC,Wu J,Reynolds CA,Herrera DB

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigates the occurrence of depression and related psychopathological features in chronic schizophrenics and attempts to examine whether depressive symptoms are independent of negative symptoms. We found that 54% of our sample of 240 chronic schizophrenics exhibited moderate to severe depression. Indepen...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： Lindenmayer JP,Grochowski S,Kay SR

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The history of the positive/negative terminology, as applied to psychiatric symptoms, can be divided into an early period of original meanings, a second one of French elaboration, and the current revival. This report addresses issues concerning the meaning, referent, and nature of the link between the positive and the...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： Berrios GE

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A second case of anorexia nervosa associated with Klinefelter's syndrome is described. Gender identity problems were thought to have been significant in this adolescent. ...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： el-Badri SM,Lewis MA

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, the conceptual validity of the unified model of personality, postulated by Cloninger (1987) and measured by the Tridimensional Personality Questionnaire (TPQ), is tested in diverse Yugoslav and American societies. The issue of cross-cultural sensitivity of personality studies and the methodology that mi...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： Svrakić DM,Przybeck TR,Cloninger CR

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients who meet DSM-III-R criteria for a diagnosis of panic disorder often show a complex mixture of psychopathological symptoms, including panic attacks (spontaneous and situational), anxiety (anticipatory and generalized), phobias (fear and avoidance), depression/dysphoria, and social and occupational disability. ...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： Deltito JA,Argyle N,Buller R,Nutzinger D,Ottosson JO,Brandon S,Mellergard M,Shera D

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kinsey concluded that homosexuality and heterosexuality were distributed dimensionally in the normal population, a significant percentage of whom experienced homosexual feelings. This conclusion has been ignored by most sex researchers. Twenty men seeking treatment for compulsive sexual behaviours reported a dimension...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： McConaghy N,Blaszczynski A

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The question of what role genetic factors have in the transmission of suicidal behavior, in particular suicide itself, is discussed on the basis of five studies of an epidemiologically clearly defined region (the Province of Salzburg, Austria). The high percentage of suicide-positive family histories as compared with ...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： Mitterauer B

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is becoming increasingly recognized that one third to one half of children diagnosed as having attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) continue to exhibit symptoms of the disorder into adulthood. The nature of the clinical picture is not well understood by a substantial number of clinicians. The purpose of ...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： Shekim WO,Asarnow RF,Hess E,Zaucha K,Wheeler N

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is widely appreciated that a social stigma surrounds psychiatric illness in contemporary society. Researchers have concentrated on the nature and consequences of psychiatric stigma. Although there exists much work on the social history of mental illness, stigma, per se, has not often been addressed in historical st...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： Fabrega H Jr

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00