Rituals of Conduct and Counter-Conduct

Comparison between Conduct Disorder and Hyperkinetic Conduct Disorder

Sir, I read with great interest the study by Malhotra et al.(1999, 41, 111-121). This study was designed to evaluate the symptomatology and clinical variables of hyperkinetic conduct disorder (HCD) and compare it with conduct disorder (CD) and also to determine the clinical variables that can discriminate these two disorders as a validation of HCD as a category. However, this study merits certa...

Conduct unbecoming…

As science correspondent of the venerable British newspaper The Sunday Times between 1991 and 1994, Neville Hodgkinson persistently questioned the role of HIV in AIDS, the danger to heterosexuals and the growing dimensions of the AIDS epidemic in Africa. Now he has written the portentously entitled AIDS — The Failure of Contemporary Science (Fourth Estate), which describes and attempts to perpe...

Conduct Disorder

LITERATURE REVIEW Antisocial behavior is inevitable in the course of development of children and is among the most common presenting complaints in the practice of child and adolescent psychiatry. Its relationship to psychopathology is complex (Robins et al, 1991; Raine, 1993; Wehby et al., 1993; Carey, 1994; Gureje et al., 1994; Rutter, 1996). Not all-antisocial behavior is pathological, theref...

Conduct of the survey

The Springs of Conduct