Psychiatric Services
- Volume 34
- Number 6
- June 1983
Article
Publication date: 01 June 1983
Pages499–502This month's column illustrates bow a liaison psychiatrist develops a treatment plan that draws heavily on the staffand resources of the medical units in which the patient is being treated. The guest expert, Dr. Samuel Perry, is associate professor of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.34.6.499Publication date: 01 June 1983
Pages507–514Childhood disability is now known to be a major public health problem throughout the world. It is estimated that in 1975 about 10 percent of the world's 1.4 billion children sufI ered from one or more disabilities. The authors discuss the patterns and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.34.6.507Publication date: 01 June 1983
Pages514–521Adolescent psychiatry as a body of knowledge has shown encouraging growth in recent years, as research findings from general psychiatry have been added to new data on adolescent psychological andphysical development. The author reviews recent findings on ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.34.6.514Publication date: 01 June 1983
Pages522–527General psychiatrists' interest in childhood has been stimulated by the genetic aspect of dynamic psychiatry. The prospective developmental approach of child psychiatrists has been molded by developmental psychological theory, epidemiological approaches, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.34.6.522Publication date: 01 June 1983
Pages528–530The author contends that a primary cause of sexual problems is failure to teach children about sex before they reach adolescence. Physical and mental growth are nurtured and supported throughout infancy and childhood, while sexual development is stifled ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.34.6.528Publication date: 01 June 1983
Pages531–535Of the various factors that determine the choice of psychotropic drugs, economic cost to patients is often not adequately considered. The authors present results of a small survey ofprivate pharmacy prices for psychopharmacologic agents, and compare these ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.34.6.531Publication date: 01 June 1983
Pages536–539Interviews with 23 chronically institutionalized, schizophrenic women living on a chronic care unit indicated that the majority had a continuing interest in sex and engaged in sexual activity. Fourteen oftbe women wanted to become pregnant. Few seemed to ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.34.6.536Publication date: 01 June 1983
Pages540–547Epilepsy, one ofthe oldest identif ied neurological disorders, is now recognized as a major public health problem affecting about 1 percent of the population. The author d: fferentiates between two major types of the disorder, the generalized and partial ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.34.6.540Publication date: 01 June 1983
Pages550–552In conclusion, it should be emphasized that this man probably would have been considered more mentally ill than someone suffering solely from the effects of being accursed and that he would have been a psychiatric casualty even in familiar surroundings. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.34.6.550