Munchhausen Syndrome by Proxy
Munchhausen Syndrome by Proxy Brian W.C. Forsyth Andrea Gottsegen Asnes Historical Note In 1951, Asher first used the eponym Munchhausen syndrome to describe adults who consistently fabricate symptoms of illness…
Reactive Attachment Disorder
Reactive Attachment Disorder Mary Margaret Gleason Charles H. Zeanah Introduction Bowlby and Ainsworth Psychiatry has long acknowledged the importance of a child’s caregiving environment for emotional development. Since the mid-twentieth…
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Carla Smith Stover Steven Berkowitz Steven Marans Joan Kaufman Introduction Kevin is a 5-year-old boy whose father murdered his mother in a domestic dispute while he was…
Child Abuse and Neglect
Child Abuse and Neglect Joan Kaufman Introduction By all standards of measurement, the problem of child maltreatment is enormous in terms of both its cost to the individual, and its…
Personality Disorders in Children and Adolescents
Personality Disorders in Children and Adolescents Carla Sharp Efrain Bleiberg Introduction The revised fourth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV— TR) (1) defines personality disorder…
Gender Identity Disorder
Gender Identity Disorder Kenneth J. Zucker Gender Identity Disorder Definition At a nascent cognitive level, gender identity has been defined as a child’s recognition that he or she is a…
Elimination Disorders: Enuresis and Encopresis
Elimination Disorders: Enuresis and Encopresis Edwin J. Mikkelsen Enuresis Definition and Historical Note Enuresis is subclassified into two subtypes, primary and secondary. Primary enuresis encompasses children who have never achieved…
Delirium and Catatonia
Delirium and Catatonia Daniel T. Williams With a growing level of sophistication in recent years, we have come to appreciate important neurophysiological substrates of central nervous system dysfunction inherent in…
Somatoform Disorders
Somatoform Disorders John V. Campo Gregory K. Fritz The biomedical model central to many of the triumphs of Western medicine maintains that the subjective suffering of our patients, most commonly…
Sleep Disorders
Sleep Disorders Thomas F. Anders Introduction Our understanding of clinical sleep disorders has advanced significantly since the 1950s, when polysomnographic (PSG) recordings first described the rapid eye movement (REM) and…
