Psychiatric Services
- Volume 36
- Number 10
- October 1985
Article
Publication date: 01 October 1985
Pages1041–1046This month's guest expert is Dr. John Clarkin, director of psychology at the Westchester Division of New York Hospital in White Plains, New York, and professor of clinical psychology in psychiatry at Cornell University Medical College. Dr. Clarkin has ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.36.10.1041Publication date: 01 October 1985
Pages1056–1062Throughout the past century and a half, American women have written published accounts dealing with their mental illness and its treatment, yet this area of literature has been largely overlooked by those who study the relationship between gender and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.36.10.1056Publication date: 01 October 1985
Pages1063–1069Program development for chronic mentally ill women is emerging in a climate where more general concerns relating to women's health and mental health are increasingly being examined. Although in the past the special needs of chronic mentally ill women have ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.36.10.1063Publication date: 01 October 1985
Pages1070–1074In their struggle to meet the multiple psychiatric and rebabiitative needs of the many chronic mentally ill living in the community, community mental health centers and aftercare clinics have overlooked the importance of pelvic examinations for women ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.36.10.1070Publication date: 01 October 1985
Pages1074–1079The dispersal of clinical and research information on family violence among many subspecialties has obscured the multidimensional nature of the problem and the need for clinicians in all settings to develop a coherent approach to family violence. Through ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.36.10.1074Publication date: 01 October 1985
Pages1080–1085The use of psychotropic drugs with women patients raises special considerations. In some settings women are medicated too readily, and in others they have inadequate access to comprehensive care that includes medication. However, judicious use of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.36.10.1080Publication date: 01 October 1985
Pages1086–1092As increasing numbers of teenage and young adult women of all economic and educational backgrounds seek treatment for eating disorders, primarily anorexia nervosa and bulimia, mental health professionals must become knowledgeable about diagnosis and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.36.10.1086Publication date: 01 October 1985
Pages1093–1097The authors describe a long-term group therapy program that has been successful in helping Hispanic women cope with adverse social and economic conditions and with a male-dominated culture. The group members explore conflicts presented by traditional ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.36.10.1093Publication date: 01 October 1985
Pages1098–1102Although women veterans accounted for 4.1 percent of all veterans in 1983, they accounted for only 1.5 percent of all discharges from Veterans Administration hospitals in that year. These data suggest that women veterans are not utilizing their health ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.36.10.1098Publication date: 01 October 1985
Pages1102–1108Medical advances in obstetrics and gynecology, combined with the depersonalization of health care and changes in sexual and reproductive behaviors in the general population, lead to challenging new problems for the psychiatric consultant who deals with ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.36.10.1102Publication date: 01 October 1985
Pages1109–1111Torrey (10) has accused many of us of contributing to "iatrogenic anguish" by blaming family members of schizophrenic patients. Many more of us have been guilty of ignoring, avoiding, and alienating families, perhaps out of a well-meaning sense of loyalty ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.36.10.1109