Dementia: Alzheimer’s Disease
Dementia: Alzheimer’s Disease Simon Lovestone Introduction Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and other dementias incur huge costs to society, to the families of those affected, and to the individuals themselves. Costs to…
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Current Psychodynamic Approaches to Psychiatry
Current Psychodynamic Approaches to Psychiatry Glen O. Gabbard Psychodynamic psychiatry is broadly defined today. In fact, the term psychodynamic is now used almost synonymously with psychoanalytical. Freud originally used the…
Object Relations, Attachment Theory, Self-Psychology, and Interpersonal Psychoanalysis
Object Relations, Attachment Theory, Self-Psychology, and Interpersonal Psychoanalysis Jeremy Holmes Despite many splits and schisms, dating back to Adler and Jung’s early break with Freud, there has been an enduring…
Psychoanalysis: Freud’s Theories and Their Contemporary Development
Psychoanalysis: Freud’s Theories and Their Contemporary Development Otto F. Kernberg Psychoanalysis is: 1 A personality theory, and, more generally, a theory of psychological functioning that focuses particularly on unconscious mental…
The Contribution of Epidemiology to Psychiatric Aetiology
The Contribution of Epidemiology to Psychiatric Aetiology Scott Henderson Introduction Epidemiology deals with the overall patterns of disease. On one hand, people are unique with their own genetic endowment and…
Social and Cultural Anthropology: Salience for Psychiatry
Social and Cultural Anthropology: Salience for Psychiatry Arthur Kleinman Social and cultural anthropology One of the social sciences (together with history, economics, political science, sociology, and social psychology), social and…
Medical Sociology and Issues of Aetiology
Medical Sociology and Issues of Aetiology George W. Brown Introduction David Mechanic, in his pioneering textbook, Medical Sociology,(1) views human activity within an adaptive frameworkâas a struggle of human beings…
Neuropsychological Basis of Neuropsychiatry
Neuropsychological Basis of Neuropsychiatry L. Clark B. J. Sahakian T. W. Robbins Introduction Neuropsychology makes an essential contribution to neuropsychiatry. It seeks objectively to characterize mental competence in component cognitive…
The Anatomy of Human Emotion
The Anatomy of Human Emotion R. J. Dolan Introduction Emotions, uniquely among mental states, are characterized by psychological and somatic referents. The former embody the subjectivity of all psychological states….
