Volume 212 - Issue 5 - May 2018
Frau mit totem Kind (Woman with dead child) (1903) by Käthe Kollwitz (1867–1945)
Käthe Kollwitz (1867–1945) was a German Expressionist artist. Born in Konigsberg, she suffered anxiety as a child due to the death of her siblings. She went on to train at art schools for women in Berlin and later Munich. In her art, she addressed social and political issues, and was a committed socialist and pacifist. In 1933 after the Nazi Party came to power, her work was banned and she lost her academic post at the Akademie der Kunste. In 1936 she and her husband were threatened with deportation to a concentration camp, but because of her by-now international stature as an artist, no further action was taken.
This powerful, and indeed disturbing, image of a mother cradling her dead child was produced by Kollwitz in 1903. Her son, Peter, who was seven at the time posed for the dead child. With cruel irony he was to be killed in the First World War at the age of eighteen. Kollwitz never fully recovered from his death. In her diaries, she repeatedly described her loss.
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Highlights of this issue
Highlights of this issue
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We all know what we mean by treatment-resistant depression – don't we?
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Detail, dynamics and depth: useful correctives for some current research trends
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Invited lecture
‘We've had enough of experts’: the enduring charm of quackery
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In debate
Psychiatric hospitalisation and the risk of suicide
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- 25 April 2018, pp. 269-273
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Analysis
Multiple-therapy-resistant major depressive disorder: a clinically important concept
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- 13 February 2018, pp. 274-278
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Review article
Depression and hopelessness as risk factors for suicide ideation, attempts and death: meta-analysis of longitudinal studies
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- 28 March 2018, pp. 279-286
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Papers
Neurodevelopmental risk copy number variants in adults with intellectual disabilities and comorbid psychiatric disorders
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Incidence of unipolar and bipolar depression, and mania in adults with intellectual disabilities: prospective cohort study
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- 15 March 2018, pp. 295-300
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Sensitivity and specificity of the Akena Visual Depression Inventory (AViDI-18) in Kampala (Uganda) and Cape Town (South Africa)
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- 20 March 2018, pp. 301-307
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Personal well-being networks, social capital and severe mental illness: exploratory study
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- 06 April 2018, pp. 308-317
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Short report
Absence of cerebrospinal fluid antineuronal antibodies in schizophrenia spectrum disorders
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Corrigenda
Prematurity at birth and adolescent depressive disorder–CORRIGENDUM
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Prediction of Electroconvulsive Therapy Response and Remission in Major Depression: Meta-analysis – CORRIGENDUM
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Ketamine as the anaesthetic for electroconvulsive therapy: the KANECT randomised controlled trial – CORRIGENDUM
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Book review
Psychiatry in Practice: Education, Experience, and Expertise Edited by Andrea Fiorillo, Umberto Volpe and Dinesh Bhugra. Oxford University Press. 2016. £39.99 (pb). 544 pp. ISBN 9780198723646
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Kaleidoscope
Kaleidoscope
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From the Editor's Desk
Don't forget to connect with patient experience: conversations on trust, ties and surprise
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Extras
Mental Health Act – poems
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Front Cover (OFC, IFC) and matter
BJP volume 212 issue 5 Cover and Front matter
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