Focus
- Volume 3
- Number 4
- October 2005
EDITORIAL
CLINICAL SYNTHESIS
Publication date: 01 October 2005
Pages503–510The diagnostic category of eating disorders encompasses anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and the heterogeneous group of eating disorders not otherwise specified, most prominent among which is binge-eating disorder, currently detailed in research ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/foc.3.4.503Publication date: 01 October 2005
Pages511–519Obesity is a global epidemic and a health priority, and several psychiatric disorders, including major depressive disorder, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia, are associated with an elevated risk of comorbid obesity. Moreover, persons with psychiatric ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/foc.3.4.511Publication date: 01 October 2005
Pages520–525Sexual dysfunction encompasses disorders of the sexual response cycle or sex-related pain. Disorders of desire include hypoactive sexual desire disorder and sexual aversion disorder. Disorders of arousal include male erectile disorder and female arousal ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/foc.3.4.520Publication date: 01 October 2005
Pages526–531Clinical sexuality has undergone phases of domination by psychoanalysis, behavioral sex therapy, and pharmacotherapy as its scope gradually broadened to include diverse problems of identity and function. This article provides 1) a conceptual background to ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/foc.3.4.526REVIEW
INFLUENTIAL PUBLICATIONS
Publication date: 01 October 2005
Pages618–628Background: The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists is coordinating the development of clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) in psychiatry, funded under the National Mental Health Strategy (Australia) and the New Zealand Ministry of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/foc.3.4.618Publication date: 01 October 2005
Pages629–640This paper reports the results of a randomised treatment trial of two forms of outpatient family intervention for anorexia nervosa. Forty adolescent patients with anorexia nervosa were randomly assigned to “conjoint family therapy” (CFT) or to “separated ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/foc.3.4.629