Illness related deception: social or psychiatric problem?

Illness related deception: social or psychiatric problem?

In this paper we question the validity of factitious disorder as a meaningful psychiatric diagnosis. When the diagnosis is used there is often the assumption that the person engaging in the 'deception' is not lying in the traditional sense of being deliberately misleading. Moreover, little is known about the aetiology or psychopathology underlying factitious disorder, and the legitimacy of dece...

[Alcoholism as a psychiatric and social problem].

Psychiatric Illness in General Practice: The Urgency of the Problem

to support this figure. The difficulty in measuring the amount of mental illness seen by G.P.s results from the absence of any agreed system of classifying mental illness. There is no agreement as to whether a particular condition should be regarded as psychiatric, and the standards of measurement vary from doctor to doctor. In this situation it is scarcely worth while for any more individual G...

Social Dysfunctioning as a Measure of Severity of Psychiatric Illness

A study was carried out to examine the validity of social dysfunctioning as a measure of severity of illness. Modified version of KAS, R2 inventory was used to measure social functioning. Since there can be no absolute measure of severity of psychiatric illness, the validity was tested through indirect means. It was decided that if the scores on social dysfunctioning were higher amongst the men...

liver illness and psychiatric patients

patients with psychiatric disorders are usually more exposed to multiple somatic illnesses, including liver diseases. specific links are established between psychiatric disorders and alcohol hepatitis, hepatitis b, and hepatitis c in the population as a whole, and specifically in drug abusers. metabolic syndrome criteria, and associated steatosis or non-alcoholic steato-hepatitis (nash) are fre...