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F O Henker

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PubMed1987

Accident proneness and how to prevent it.

Accidents are unplanned, unexpected events usually producing injury or property damage. They occur when there is a disequilibrium between environmental hazards, exposure to hazards, and vulnerability to hazards. Vulnerability involves the condition of both physical and psychologic faculties. Repeating accidents occur when one or more of these three general components is increased significantly. This condition is referred to as "accident proneness," especially when vulnerability and/or exposure are significantly affected by psychologic predisposition. Prevention involves holistic assessment of the total situation, detecting the area or areas contributing to accident liability, and either devising methods for restoration of equilibrium or referring the patient to appropriate ancillary professionals who can bring about changes that will shift the balance away from accident production.

Accident Prevention↗
PubMed1984

Joan of Arc and DSM III.

As an exercise in the use of the current diagnostic manual of psychiatric disorders, the life story of Joan of Arc is summarized from birth until her execution at age 19. Then various psychiatric diagnoses are considered in the light of published criteria, including types of psychoses, psychosexual disorders, and personality disorders.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1979

Diagnosis and treatment of nonorganic pelvic pain.

Pelvic pain was a prominent complaint among one third of 3,000 gynecology clinic patients. In 1.1% no causative disease could be found, and these patients failed to respond to routine therapy. Twenty of these patients who were studied minutely revealed some psychologic disorder including hysteria, passive-aggressive behavior, sociopathy, depression, and alcoholism. A strong tendency toward psychophysiologic disturbances in other systems was practically universal. Supportive psychotherapy, progressive relaxation training, and insight therapy were used. The greatest barrier to treatment success was refusal of patients to accept the psychologic factors in their total illness.

Adult↗
PubMed1979

Acute brain syndromes.

Four hundred and nine cases of acute brain syndrome, encountered in psychiatric consultations among 54,942 general hospital patients over a 5 year period, fell into 4 groups according to symptom picture: lethargic, bewildered, agitated and psychotic. Treatment included reality orientation, protection and pharamacologic measures.

Acute Disease↗
PubMed1976

Psychotherapy as adjunct in treatment of vomiting during pregnancy.

Adjunctive psychotherapeutic measures were used to treat ten consecutive pregnant women referred to a psychiatric consultation service because of severe intractable vomiting. In addition to customary medical measures, they received three types of psychotherapy: (1) supportive psychotherapy (establishment of positive relationship, frequent reassuring conversations, and encouragement of expression of thoughts and feelings); (2) hypnotherapy (trance induction and suggestions of comfort in the gastrointestinal tract, desirability of feeling of substance in stomach, and ability to retain and digest food eaten); and (3) behavior modification (positive reinforcement for retaining food and gaining weight, through granting desirable considerations such as visitors, radio, television, and being up in or outside the room). Results were encouraging. Nine patients recovered and completed normal pregnancies, while one improved but later aborted due to other complications. When compared with a control group of routinely treated patients, recovery was more rapid.

Adolescent↗