The Israel Journal of Psychiatry and Related Sciences back issues from January 2002:
Editorial: Sleep medicine--in the wake of a new medical subspecialty
Jan 01, 2002; ... The present issue of The Israel Journal of Psychiatry and Related Sciences includes 5 articles all related to different aspects of sleep disorders and their treatment. Given the fact that the scientific study of sleep started in the middle of the 20th century with the seminal discovery of Rapid ...
No evidence of sleep disturbance in post-traumatic stress disorder: A polysomnographic study in injured victims of traffic accidents
Jan 01, 2002; ... Abstract: Background: Disturbed sleep is a common complaint among patients with PTSD. This complaint can be found in both the reexperiencing and hyperarousal symptom clusters in the DSM-IV. However, laboratory studies of sleep in PTSD have provided inconsistent evidence of objective sleep ...
Delayed and advanced sleep phase symptoms
Jan 01, 2002; ... Abstract: Current criteria for circadian rhythm sleep disorders require a mismatch between the endogenous circadian sleep tendency and exogenous environmental requirements for sleep timing. To examine the prevalence of circadian rhythm sleep disorders by DSM-IV criteria, sleep complaints and ...
Circadian rhythm sleep disorders (CRSD) in psychiatry--a review
Jan 01, 2002; ... Abstract: Circadian Rhythm Sleep Disorders (CRSD) are a group of sleep disorders characterized by a de-synchronization between a person's biological clock and the environmental 24-hour schedule. There are four main types of CRSD, namely, Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome (DSPS) (the most common), ...
Rapid Eye Movement (REM) sleep behavior disorder: A sleep disturbance affecting mainly older men
Jan 01, 2002; ... Abstract: Rapid Eye Movement (REM) sleep behavior disorder is characterized by the intermittent loss of REM-related muscle atonia and the appearance of elaborated motor behaviors (sometimes violent behavior) and vocalizations associated with dream mentation. Nine patients were diagnosed in our ...
Non-pharmacalogical treatments of insomnia
Jan 01, 2002; ... Abstract: Insomnia is a prevalent and complex disorder to treat. This article reviews the prevalence, etiology, diagnosis and treatment of insomnia. With regard to treatment, there now exists an extensive literature demonstrating that compared with pharmacological treatments a range of ...
The WHO World Health report 2001: New understanding--New Hope
Jan 01, 2002; ... The World Health Organization (WHO) releases yearly the World Health Report (1). This publication provides an authoritative overview of the global health situation and recommends methods and procedures to improve the health of the populations. Information serves to awaken societal awareness on ...
Rispiridone-associated, benign transient visual disturbances in schizophrenic patients with a past history of LSD abuse
Jan 01, 2002; ... Abstract: Two schizophrenic patients, who had a prior history of LSD abuse and who had previously developed EPS with classic antipsychotics, were successfully treated with risperidone. They both reported short episodes of transient visual disturbances, which appeared immediately after starting ...
Drinking wine to inebriation in biblical times
Jan 01, 2002; ... Abstract: Wine has been drunk for thousands of years. This report describes the first documented cases of getting drunk on wine in the Bible. Noah, the hero of the biblical flood story, and Lot, a son of Haran and nephew to Abraham, were the first cases described in the Bible of drunkenness ...
Obituary: Seymore Kety
Jan 01, 2002; ... Seymour Kety's death in May at the age of 85 signals the end of an era and the coming of age of psychiatric research. I knew Seymour for the last 25 years of his life, and can share recollections of his influence on me that reflect his character and aspects of his contribution. Dr. Kety was the ...
Obituary: Rachel Chazan
Jan 01, 2002; ... Rachael Chazan, psychiatrist, member of the editorial board and book reviews editor of the Israel Journal of Psychiatry, died on 27th September, 2001 at the age of 74 of a brain tumor. Born in Vienna, her family arrived in London, England, in 1939. She studied medicine at the Royal Free ...
Encyclopedia of Genocide
Jan 01, 2002; ... Encyclopaedia of Genocide Editor in Chief Israel Charny. With forewords by Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Simon Wiesenthal. ABC-CLIO Santa Barbara, California; Denver, Colorado; Oxford, England. 718 pp. incl. Index. $175. It must have been a formidable task to organize, write and edit this ...
Philosophy Practice: An Alternative to Psychotherapy
Jan 01, 2002; ... Philosophy Practice An Alternative to Psychotherapy Shlomit C. Schuster Praeger, Westport, Connecticut & London 1999, 209 pp. In this book, Shlomit Schuster describes the work of the pioneers of philosophical counseling - Achenbach, Dill, Morstein argues its case, and gives some ...
A Century of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Group Analysis: A Search for Integration
Jan 01, 2002; ... A Century of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Group Analysis: A Search for Integration by Ronald Sandison Foreword by Malcolm Pines International Library of Group Analysis. London and Philadelphia, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2001,159 pages. This book ...
The Group as Therapist
Jan 01, 2002; ... The Group as Therapist by Rachael Chazan. Forewords by Pat de Mare and Malcolm Pines International Library of Group Analysis 14, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, London and Philadelphia, 2001, 206pp. This book leads the reader clearly and smoothly to a natural acceptance of the power of the ...
Understanding and Supporting Children with Emotional and Behavioral Difficulties
Jan 01, 2002; ... Understanding and Supporting Children with Emotional and Behavioral Difficulties Edited by Paul Cooper Jessica Kingsley Publishers, London and Philadelphia, 1999, 272 pages. This book was written by 12 educators and therapists and is divided to three parts. The first part deals ...
Interpersonal Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Relevance, Dismissal and Self-Definition
Jan 01, 2002; ... Interpersonal Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Relevance, Dismissal and Self-Definition by Arthur H. Feiner Foreword by Edgar A. Levenson. London and Philadelphia, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2000,188 pp. What facilitates therapeutic change? Most agree with the interpersonal ists that ...
Editorial: Changes in psychoactive drug use in Israel from 1990 until 2001
Jan 01, 2002; ... This special issue on substance abuse in Israel will focus on epidemiological and clinical aspects of this very complex bio-- psycho-social problem. Recently an extensive survey of the use of psychoactive substances among Israeli citizens in the year 2001 was completed (1) ....
Editorial: Science-based views of drug abuse and addiction
Jan 01, 2002; ... Drug abuse and addiction exact an enormous toll on the health, well-being and safety of citizens in every country. These disorders are not only complex, costly, and widely misunderstood, but pose many challenges to the research community as well. Fortunately the dramatic advances that have been ...
Special editorial: Challenge paradigms in psychiatric research: What do they contribute and are they ethical?
Jan 01, 2002; ... The challenge paradigm is a research design which uses symptom provocation to elicit symptoms of disease in humans. In the classical instance the aim is to study pathophysiology. For example, Pitts and McClure (1) administered intravenous lactic acid to patients with what is now called panic ...
Commentary: First, do no harm. Then, do some good: Ethics and human experimental psychopharmacology
Jan 01, 2002; ... Experimental psychopharmacology is a field of research in which the cognitive, behavioral, subjective, physiologic, and endocrine responses to pharmacologic agents are studied with the objective of explicating a facet of normal physiology or pathophysiology. This area of research has received a ...
Flashback and hallucinogen persisting perception disorder: Clinical aspects and pharmacological treatment approach
Jan 01, 2002; ... Abstract: One unique characteristic of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) and LSD-like substances is the recurrence of some of the symptoms which appeared during the intoxication after the immediate effect of the hallucinogen has worn off. This recurring syndrome, mainly visual, has not been ...
LSD-induced Hallucinogen Persisting Perception Disorder with depressive features treated with reboxetine: Case report
Jan 01, 2002; ... Abstract: We would like to present the case of a patient who had a prior history of cannabis, ecstasy (MDMA) and LSD abuse and who developed both Hallucinogen Persisting Perception Disorder (HPPD) and a major depressive episode. Following two unsuccessful SSRIs trials, reboxetine was prescribed ....
Benzodiazepine abuse in a methodone maintenance treatment clinic in Israel: Characteristics and a pharmacotherapeutic approach
Jan 01, 2002; ... Abstract: Objective: 1) To study the prevalence, course and correlates of benzodiazepine (BZD) abuse in an Israeli methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) clinic; and 2) to present preliminary results of an open clinical study on the treatment of BZD addiction in MMT patients using BZD ...
Heroin detoxification with a single high dose of buprenorphine
Jan 01, 2002; ... Abstract: Twenty street-heroin dependent subjects were given 32 mg of sublingual buprenorphine, following heroin abstinence of 24 hours. Withdrawal symptoms were monitored during the first few hours, and followed for six days after buprenorphine administration, after which naltrexone 50 mg was ...
The effects of alcohol and illicit drugs on the human embryo and fetus
Jan 01, 2002; ... Abstract: Women at childbearing age often use alcohol and various illicit drugs such as cocaine and heroin. These agents pass through the human placenta and may affect the developing embryo and fetus. Indeed, large amounts of alcohol ingested by the pregnant woman may produce a specific syndrome ...
Drug and alcohol-related emergency department visits: Results of a pilot survey in two hospitals in Israel
Jan 01, 2002; ... Abstract: There is no system for reporting drug and alcohol-related emergency department (ED) visits in Israel. This pilot survey was aimed at examining the feasibility of establishing an ED surveillance system in a general hospital and a psychiatric hospital. We describe the design and ...
An integration of three approaches to addiction and methadone maintenance treatment: The self-medication hypothesis, the disease model and social criticism
Jan 01, 2002; ... Abstract: The two models which have most affected theory and practice of addiction medicine have been the disease model and the self-medication hypothesis. The disease model's fundamental concept is that the addicted individual is sick and suffers from a disease. The self-medication hypothesis ...
Atlas of Psychiatric Pharmacotherapy
Jan 01, 2002; ... Atlas of Psychiatric Pharmacotherapy by Roni Shiloh, David Nutt and Abraham Weizman. Martin Dunitz, 1999,235pp. ISBN 1.85317-934-5,$49.99 This authoritative textbook is a first rate reference for psychiatrists, students and teachers alike. The book is presented in the form of vivid, ...
Psychoanalysis and Diplomacy: A study of Large-Group Identities, Rituals and Conflicts
Jan 01, 2002; ... Psychoanalysis and Diplomacy: A Study of Large-Group Identities, Rituals and Conflicts by Vamik D. Volkan Psychosozial-Verlag, Giessen, Germany. 1999 German title: The Failure of Diplomacy, DM 48. Vamik Volkan is a prolific author in a field often ...
Editorial: We come bearing gifts
Jan 01, 2002; ... Over the past thirty years Israel's mental health system has been undergoing processes of "reform"' all guided by the recognition of the importance of implementing a shift from hospital-based to community-based care. While these processes have produced many committees, reports and ...
Editorial: A voice to be heard in mental health
Jan 01, 2002; ... We are delighted to present to our readers this special issue. It does not contain the usual scientific papers, written by professionals, evaluated by the peer review process, selected for inclusion in our journal. Instead, this issue of the Israel Journal of Psychiatry consists of articles, ...
Editorial: The consumer movement in mental health care
Jan 01, 2002; ... In the summer of 1993, nine years ago, in the midst of an attack of depression, I saw in one of Jerusalem's local newspapers an advertisement offering support groups for people of many kinds. The Jerusalem's Municipal Unit for Self-Help Groups, the only self-help framework operated by a ...
When I am on medication, I cease to be myself: Misgivings about taking antidepressants
Jan 01, 2002; ... The first time that the question of taking medication became an issue for me was when I was eighteen. I was in the army and had a recurrence of my depression. I had managed to get through my matriculation examinations but everything came flooding back to the surface at the start of my army ...
Self-cutting
Jan 01, 2002; ... Sarah This is a very difficult time of year for me as the seder moves closer and I glance at the calendar I can feel my chest get heavy, heavy with hurt, with anguish, with pain - I can feel the uneasiness rise in my chest, almost to a point of unbearable aching - but I know this time ...
On stigma in our society
Jan 01, 2002; ... Ilana Stigma exists in all the strata of society When one hears the term "mentally ill" in any stratum of society, the impression is of someone who is stupid, dirty or a murderer, in short a madman. No stratum is exempt from this impression. For any socio-economic group, the ...
"Madness"--is there madness?
Jan 01, 2002; ... Great, madness exists! - the voice said that David is mad. He is sitting in an old building far away from here, no one knows where it is, the building is surrounded by trees and flowers and a tall fence. It is hidden in some town - no one knows where. But, I said, I saw him at a wedding ...
Childhood neglect and its effects: A personal perspective
Jan 01, 2002; ... A little girl's doll A sad little girl She wants a little warmth / she wants love Mommy's little girl / Daddy's little girl Maybe no one's girl? Little girl, who gives you a hand? Who covers you on the cold nights? Who tells you ...
The things that help one cope
Jan 01, 2002; ... Pride of place among the things that help me cope "outside" and not be hospitalized must be my place of work. Work is both a source of occupation and satisfaction. For the last eight years I have worked in the same government office. The people are pleasant, they behave very well to me, ask how ...
Living with a schizoid personality
Jan 01, 2002; ... "Mitmodedet" I would like to present here life with a schizoid personality from my personal viewpoint, as someone who considers herself to have this disorder. I should add that since this diagnosis is based on my own evaluation, there may be a certain lack of clarity concerning the ...
The Internet as a means for promoting the recovery and empowerment of people with mental health problems
Jan 01, 2002; ... In the modern era, as technology moves the world toward the vision of the global village, access to communications technology such as the internet has become an increasingly essential means for participation in community life. The internet has become one of the basic ways for people to ...
Living through the Yom Kippur war
Jan 01, 2002; ... I remember so clearly when we first heard that war had started. Ditza, Gingeet and I were lazing on the grass outside Ditza's house in the kibbutz, after doing our stint in the kitchen. Gingeet was head cook (she'd been trained), Ditza and I were cooks and bottle washers. As usual it was hot. As ...
Coping with Panic States
Jan 01, 2002; ... Coping with Panic States P. Danon and I. Iuliancu Prolog, Rosh Haayin, 96 pp, 2001, NIS 29 This booklet was intended principally for those who suffer from anxiety states. In the first section it seeks to describes the types of anxiety, their characteristics and ...
Schizophrenia
Jan 01, 2002; ... Schizophrenia A. Weizman, M. Pivorotski and V. Tal Prolog, Rosh Haayin, 96 pp, 1999, NIS 29 I was very pleased that a booklet has finally been published on the subject of schizophrenia. Since my illness began 14 years ago I have searched for ways of informing myself about the ...
The enclave of schizophrenia
Jan 01, 2002; ... In an early phase of the development of the world, the parliaments of the various nations discussed what to do with the mentally ill. The major institutions reached a variety of solutions. For the sufferers themselves the decisions were of crucial importance. There were countries where they were ...
Editorial: Genes for human behavior
Jan 01, 2002; ... The human genome project (HGP) began in 1990 aiming to sequence the total human genome, develop genetic maps to assign genes to specific regions on chromosomes, and identify genes associated with human disease. A major challenge, once genomic sequence information is complete, will be to ...
The challenges of genetic tests for human behavior
Jan 01, 2002; ... Abstract: Objective: To review the potential benefits and adverse effects of genetic tests that may develop, that effectively predict mental illness or variation from the norm on behavior traits. Method: A review is offered of the history of genetic-based political policies and racial ...
History of the eugenic movement
Jan 01, 2002; ... Abstract: The goal of this review is to introduce the reader to the ideas behind the eugenic movement, its implementation, and its consequences. First, we address the work of prominent 19th century forerunners of eugenics. Second, we discuss the eugenic movement during the first half of the 20th ...
Genetics of complex psychiatric disorders: Scientific foundations
Jan 01, 2002; ... Abstract: Advances in genetic analysis as well as progress in the Human Genome Sequencing Project have raised the hope to elucidate the molecular basis of mental disorders on the DNA level. In the present review we describe and discuss the basic concepts which are currently applied for the ...
Genetics of schizophrenia: A review of linkage findings
Jan 01, 2002; ... Abstract: Background: Family, twin and adoption studies have demonstrated the genetic basis of schizophrenia. Several genes, acting synergistically with each other and with the environment probably underlie the disorder. Different genes for schizophrenia are surely present in different ...
Genetics of suicidal behavior: Candidate association genetic approach
Jan 01, 2002; ... Abstract: Suicidal behavior runs in families and seemed to be genetically determined in part and independent of the presence of psychiatric disorders. This review presents the current knowledge of candidate gene association studies in the field of suicidology. Concordance for monozygotic twins ...
Heritability, genetics and association findings in anorexia nervosa
Jan 01, 2002; ... Abstract: Anorexia nervosa (AN) is a severe psychiatric disorder, characterized by a combination of abnormal eating behavior and weight regulation with disturbances of attitudes toward body weight and shape. Prevalence is estimated at 1/1000, but with a high prevalence of the partial syndrome ...
Personality genetics, 2002
Jan 01, 2002; ... Abstract: The study of the genetics of personality looks for effects of genetic differences on psychological differences between people. The most replicated associations have been between the dopamine D4 receptor gene and "novelty seeking" and between the serotonin reuptake transporter gene and ...
Mood Disorders in Women
Jan 01, 2002; ... Mood Disorders in Women Edited by Meir Steiner, Kimberly A. Yonkers and Elias Eriksson Martin Dunitz, London, 2000. Hard cover, 573 pp., $99.95 According to the authors, this book was written for all "healthcare professionals" and particularly psychiatrists, as is clear from the focus ...
"Saarat Nefesh" (Mindstorms)
Jan 01, 2002; ... "Saarat Nefesh" (Mindstorms) by Yoram Yovel Keshet, 2001. Paperback, 384 pp. (Hebrew), NIS 89.00 Psychiatry is a lonely profession. Sure, much of the work takes place in the presence of another person. And all kinds of fascinating, saddening, intriguing, harrowing, ...
Mood and Anxiety Disorders in Children and Adolescents--A Psychopharmacological Approach
Jan 01, 2002; ... Mood and Anxiety Disorders in Children and Adolescents - A Psychopharmacological Approach by David Nutt, Caroline Bell, Christine Masterson and Clare Short Martin Dunitz, London, 2001. 200 pp. $39.95 Those who enjoyed the Atlas of Psychopharmacology of Shiloh, Nutt and Weizmann and ...
Disordered Mind and Brain--The Neural Basis of Mental Symptoms
Jan 01, 2002; ... Disordered Mind and Brain - The Neural Basis of Mental Symptoms Peter E Liddle Gaskell, 2001. 301 pp. The book is composed of three parts, each consisting of a few chapters. The first part of the book is devoted to neuroanatomy and neurophysiology. This ...
L'avenir d'une desillusion. (The future of a disillusion)
Jan 01, 2002; ... L'avenir d'une desillusion. (The future of a disillusion). Green A, Kernberg 0 and al. PUF. Petite Bibliotheque de Psychanalyse. Paris, 2000. 165 pages, 78 FF. In 1927 Freud published "The Future of an Illusion"; in his view the illusion, namely religion, is, or was, a ...
Weaving the Story of One's Life: Re-biography of Holocaust Survivors
Jan 01, 2002; ... Weaving the Story of One's Life: Re-biography of Holocaust Survivors by Ayala Yehezkel (Fridler) Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing House, Ltd., Tel Aviv, 1999. Paperback, 271 pp. It is difficult to read this book, because of its content. The life stories are so shocking that I found it ...