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Volume 166 - April 1995

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  • Postpartum depression – a specific concept?

  • A. J. Bell, N. M. Land, S. Milne, F. Hassanyeh
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    02 January 2018, p. 826
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A Hundred Years Ago

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  • Obituary: Daniel Hack Tuke

  • Henry Rollin
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    02 January 2018, pp. 403-405
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  • Home- v. hospital–based care for people with serious mental illness

  • S. Weich, G. Lewis
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    02 January 2018, p. 120
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  • The Origins of Love and Hate: Ian D. Suttie

  • Penelope Campling, Mary Morton
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    02 January 2018, pp. 406-408

  • Issues of love and hate underpin our work as psychiatrists and psychotherapists, informing our attitudes and decisions. Stories of love and hate abound with our patients, perhaps even more starkly now than in the clinics of Suttie's day, with increasingly common revelations of childhood physical and sexual abuse, often perpetrated by parents. Helping patients to deal with extremes of love and hate is fundamental to the process as well as the content of therapy, and even the most biologically-minded colleagues must at times wonder why particular patients sabotage every attempt to care for them, why some patients attract superhuman efforts from nursing staff, and why some patients seem to get under our skin when others leave us feeling cold and unsympathetic.

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  • Personality features in chronic depressive episodes

  • P. Tyrer, N. Seivewright
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    02 January 2018, p. 827
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  • Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder

  • Frank Tallis
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    02 January 2018, pp. 546-550

  • Obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) has recently undergone a dramatic change in status. Once regarded as a rare example of the neuroses, it now occupies a central position in contemporary psychiatry. The reasons for this renaissance in interest are relatively easy to describe. Firstly, results from the National Institute of Mental Health Epidemiological Catchment Area (ECA) survey indicated that the lifetime prevalence of OCD was 2.5% (1 in 40 people) and the 6-month point prevalence was 1.5%, making it the fourth most common psychiatric disorder in the US (Myers et al, 1984; Robins et al, 1984; Karno et al, 1988). If these figures are applicable to the UK, there may be up to 1 million sufferers. Secondly, the therapeutic efficacy of the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) and consistent findings from a number of neuroimaging investigations have stimulated interest in understanding the biological substrates of OCD. Finally, the traditional behavioural account of OCD has been elaborated, with greater emphasis given to cognition and cognitive processes; this revised anatomy of obsessions has, predictably, stimulated the development of specific cognitive therapy strategies.

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