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W Reich

Publications and source records attributed to W Reich.

At least 19 recordsLinked to original sources
PubMed1988

Psychopathology in children of alcoholic and antisocial parents.

In this controlled family study the frequency of psychiatric disorder in children of alcoholic parents was found to be higher than in children of nonalcoholic parents. The rate in children of two alcoholic parents was distinctly higher than in those of one alcoholic parent. Comparison was also made between children of antisocial parents (usually coexisting with alcoholism) and children of parents with alcoholism only; no significant differences in the rates of childhood disorder were found between these two groups. Structured diagnostic interviews independently administered to both parents and children between 6 and 17 years old were used to assess psychopathology in the children. The types of disorders in the children of alcoholic parents reflected a mixed diagnostic picture with the reports of both parents and children yielding similar results.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1987

Rules for making psychiatric diagnoses in children on the basis of multiple sources of information: preliminary strategies.

Inherent in the structured diagnostic interviewing of children is the problem of how to resolve differences between the child's own report and that of the parent about the child. A related problem concerns the use of outside source of information about the child, such as information from the teacher. In this study, the authors review the decision-making process used in the assignment of summary psychiatric diagnoses based on the child and parent reports, as well as a number of other sources of information about the child. Provisional rules for making summary diagnoses of children are presented.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1986

[Amine colpitis].

Significance of KOH test and isonitril (isocyanide) reaction tested in 104 patients was compared with our microbial culture results. In Gardnerella vaginalis as well as in no spores forming anaerobic germs the KOH test was not and the isonitril reaction was only insignificant reliable. Both tests are not able to substitute the procedures of culturing germs including those of Mycoplasma hominis and Ureaplasma urealyticum.

Amines↗
PubMed1976

Brainwashing, psychiatry, and the law.

Buried as a foreign menance more than twenty years ago, exhumed, examined and reinterred once or twice since then, brainwashing has risen again, this time to take its place on the stage of domestic horrors.

Antisocial Personality Disorder↗
PubMed1976

The schizophrenia spectrum: a genetic concept.

A spectrum concept of schizophrenia is described which hypothesizes that classical schizophrenia results at least in part from a genetic diathesis; that certain other, usually milder, psychopathological states, which do not satisfy the classical criteria for the diagnosis of schizophrenia, represent varying clinical expressions of the same diathesis; and that all of these states can, therefore, be said to constitute a genetically based spectrum of schizophrenic disorders. This concept is, in its broad outlines, not new, but it has had an increasing impact within psychiatry in recent years. Most importantly, it provides a conceptual framework for a variety of schizophrenia studies, particularly those dealing with biological markers, genetic vulnerability, clinical phenomenology, and modes of inheritance. A program of research which has attempted to test the concept, and to identify, describe, and classify the components of the genetic spectrum, is reviewed. Its methodology makes possible an approach to schizophrenia which simultaneously takes into account its two most vexing problems--nosology and etiology.

Humans↗
PubMed1975

The spectrum concept of schizophrenia. Problems for diagnostic practice.

The spectrum concept of schizophrenia posits that a number of psychopathologic states, both psychotic and nonpsychotic, may share some genetic basis with schizophrenia, and may therefore constitute, together with schizophrenia itself, a genetic spectrum of schizophrenic disorders. While this is a valuable and promising research concept, its application to diagnostic practice could broaden the boundaries of schizophrenia to include patients with other conditions, thus rendering a larger population at risk for the untoward effects of the schizophrenia disgnosis itself. This may have already occurred in the Soviet Union, where a diagnostic system derived from a variant of the spectrum concept is used in routine diagnostic practice. The adoption of a spectrum-based diagnostic system should await further research on the boundaries of the spectrum, and more detailed descriptions of confirmed spectrum states.

Bipolar Disorder↗