Psychiatry the State of the Art

Drug Dependency and Alcoholism.- The Challenge of Addiction and Substance Use Disorders: Are They the Number One Health Problem for Psychiatry?.- Drug Abuse: Predisposition and Vulnerability.- The Prevention of Adolescent Drug Abuse.- Community Mobilization, Self-Help Approaches and Non-Governmental Voluntary Measures.- Social Policy and the Prevention of Alcohol-Related Problems.- Diagnosis of Alcoholism.- Diagnosis of Alcoholism — Introductory Remarks.- Comprehensive Questionnaire Tests on Alcoholism.- Basle Drug and Alcohol Questionnaire (BDA) Experience in Construct Validation.- Questionnaire Tests of Alcoholism.- Detection and Exclusion of Alcoholism in Men on the Basis of Clinical Laboratory Findings.- Findings with a Modified Version of the MALT (Münchner Alcoholismus Test) in Spanish Language.- Comparison of Drinking Patterns among German, Spanish and Ecuadorian Alcoholics.- The NCA Criteria for the Diagnosis of Alcoholism-Intent, Use, and Practicality.- Biological Psychiatry of Chronic Alcoholism and of the Postwithdrawal Syndrome.- Psychobiological Approach to the Postwithdrawal Syndrome.- Induction Factors Related to the Severity of the Alcohol Withdrawal Syndrome.- Alcoholism and Affective Disorders.- Genetic Factors in Alcoholism: A Theoretical Model.- Correlation of Behavior with Electroencephalographic Studies in Alcoholism.- Industrial Solvents and Ethanol — A Clinical Neurotoxicological Comparison.- Alcohol and Human Evoked Potentials.- Acute Withdrawal Syndrome Treatment in Alcoholics.- New Research on Heredity and Alcoholism.- Forensic Psychiatry.- New Horizons in Psychiatry and Legislation.- New Horizons in Psychiatry and Legislation: The Historical and Cultural Aspects.- Psychiatry — Partner in the Administration of Justice.- Applied Criminology and Psychiatric Expert Evaluation.- Personality Descriptions in Forensic Psychiatry: A Clue to an Expert’s Implict Theory Analysis.- Legal Psychiatry in Quebec.- Evil in Women — “Delilah Syndrome” — A New Psychiatric Syndrome.- Hypnosis: Complications — An Illustrative Clinical Example.- The Role of the Psychiatrist as an Expert in Court Procedures: Changing Patterns and New Trends.- The Role of the Psychiatrist as an Expert in Court Procedure: Changing Patterns and New Trends — Introduction.- Conflict Between Justice and Treatment Ideologies.- Dangerousness and the Psychiatrist.- The Role of the Psychiatrist as an Expert in Court Procedures in Japan.- Forensic Aspects in Depressive Disorders.- Psychiatric Malpractice: Medical and Legal Problems.- Transsexuality of the 80’s.- The Role of the Child Psychiatrist in Child Custody Conflicts.- Syndromes of Acute Alcohol Intoxication and Their Forensic Implications.- The Psychiatrist’s Response to Repression.- The Health and Adaptation of Victims of Political Violence in Latin America (Psychiatric Effects of Torture and Disappearance).- Effects of Imprisonment and Isolation.- Psychiatric Help for Vietnamese Refugees.- Mental Health Needs of Victims of Violence.- The Relevance of Victimology to the International Health Scene.- Mental Health Needs of Victims of Violence.- Social Network and Traditional Support Systems for Victims.- Victims of Torture and Their Rehabilitation.- The Family as Victim: Mental Health Implications.- Long-Term Stress and DSM III.- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorders after an Industrial Disaster: Point Prevalences, Etiological and Prognostic Factors.- Infanticide and Incest: Cross-Cultural Perspectives.- Persecution and Grandiosity in Incest Fathers.- La Llorona: Infanticide, Insanity, and Symbiosis.- Fugue, Dissociation, and Multiple Personality in Incest Victims.- The Role of Psychiatry in the Treatment of Delinquents in a Correctional Setting.- Care and Treatment of Mentally Abnormal Offenders.- Psychotherapy in a Correctional Setting.- A Maximum Security Forensic-Psychiatric Clinic, Based on Psycho-Analytic Principles: The Dr. S. van Mesdag-Clinic in Groningen, The Netherlands.- An Evaluation of Grendon Prison.- Compulsion: Its Role in Regulating Healthy Human Relationships.- Differentiated Treatment in Penal Detention Institutions.- Psychoanalytically Oriented Treatment of Delinquents on Probationary Release in a Residential Setting.- Terrorists and Terrorism.- Individual and Group Dynamics of Terrorist Behavior.- Terrorist Conduct as a Result of a Psychosocial Process.- The Lawyer Terrorist.- A Psychiatric Comparative Analysis of Left and Right-Wing Terrorism in Italy.- Biographical Features of Terrorists.- Mass Murder.- What is Mass Murder?.- The Trial of Peter William Sutcliffe and its Medico-Legal Consequences.- Violent and Non-Violent Sex Offenders.- Mass Murder by Women.- Role of Psychopharmacology in the Management of Violent Offenders.- Mental Disorder, Multiple Attacks and Mass Murder.- Military Psychiatry.- International Studies in Military Psychiatry.- Psychiatric Casualties in Modern Warefare: I Evolution of Treatment.- Applications of Military Psychiatry in Civilian Disturbances: Disasters, Terrorism, Hostage and Refugee Situations.- Panic and Catstrophe Behaviour.- Psychiatric Casualties (Battle Shock) in Israeli Defense Forces in the War in Lebanon June-September 1982.- Scandinavian Military Psychiatry.- Sanctioned Use of Drugs in Combat.- Psychiatric Combat Readiness in Army and Navy Forces.- Psychiatric Casualties in Malvinas War A Provisional Report.- Military Psychiatry and UN-Forces.- Psychiatrist with the Task Force.- Lessons of War for Psychiatry.- Training Issues in Combat Psychiatry.- Warefare and the US Military Family.- Psychiatric Problems of Finnish Conscripts.- Neuropsychiatric Casualties of Chemical, Biological and Nuclear Warfare.- Low Intensity Combat Psychiatric Casualties.- Effect of Psychoactive Drugs in the Military — The Nigerian Experience.- Training in Military Psychiatry. A Perspective.- The Hospital Ship Psychiatrist. Falkland Islands 1982.- Addendum.- Outpatient Treatment of Opiate Misusers.- Author Index.- Summary Contents of Volume I – VIII.