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Lothar Adler

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PubMed2005

Bipolar affective disorders and suicide during psychiatric in-patient treatment.

On the basis of the known literature and our own results on patients' suicide, reflections are made with regard to the group of suicide cases with bipolar affective illnesses that commit suicide during inpatient psychiatric treatment. In our own studies, we diagnosed mania in as many as 8% of all suicide cases. Risk factors for suicidal behavior in bipolar affective disorder are discussed, especially in terms of psychopathology, and the social consequences of the disease are discussed.

Bipolar Disorder↗
PubMed2004

[Long-term psychosocial outcome of young adult inpatients after a first manifestation of "neurotic" symptoms].

OBJECTIVE: It is often assumed that there is a predictive relationship between the onset of psychiatric disorder in young adulthood and the severity of their course. Because the significance is rather contradictive and poorly backed by empirical data, we have investigated this issue by a catamnestic approach. METHOD: From 96 inpatients aged between 18 to 25 years with a first manifestation of a "psychogenetic" disorder 54 % were studied 8.6 +/- 1.5 year later. RESULT: In general there was a positive development as well psychopathological as social, although complete normalisation was not reached. CONCLUSIONS: This result is almost identical with catamnestic findings with comparative studies on older patients . Our findings do not support the concept of negative predictive value of first manifestation of psychogenetic disorder in early adulthood.

Adolescent↗
PubMed2004

[The development of utilisation of psychoneurotic in-patients in hospitals for psychiatry and psychotherapy of the so-called "new" Federal States of Germany].

OBJECTIVE: Up to now psychotherapeutic treatment naturally is part of treatment strategies of mental hospitals and departments of psychiatry at general hospitals. Actually there is a controversial debate in this issue. The aim of this study was to evaluate the development of the utilization of these hospitals by patients with "psychogenic disorders" in the new federal states of eastern Germany. METHOD: We studied the changes in the utilization in hospitals of psychiatry and psychotherapy in Thuringia 1993 up to 1999 by patients with ICD-9-diagnoses 300 - 1 and 306 - 9 and compared these data with these of other clinics in East und West Germany. RESULT: The utilization of psychotherapy patients increased in all hospitals. The increase in Thuringia was highest, in the other eastern German it was higher as in western clinics. Reasons of admissions for in-patient psychotherapeutic treatment were suicide ideations and attempts, aggression against others and prepsychotic agitation. CONCLUSIONS: These results can be seen as a sign of a similar necessity of this care in the eastern as in western population under similar psychosocial conditions.

Acute Disease↗