facets. BDD, whether delusional or nondelusional, responds to antidepressants, particularly SRIs. A recent double-blind trial comparing clomipramine with desipramine demonstrated the efficacy of the former irrespective of whether the patients had insight or held their dysmorphic perception with delusional intensity (Hollander etal., 1999). Moreover, there are reports of cases resistant to pimoz...

CASE HISTORY Mr. R was a 19-year-old, single, unemployed, homeless Hispanic male with a history of Tourette’s syndrome (TS), obsessivecompulsive disorder (OCD), attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and posttraumatic stress disorder. In addition, he suffered from suicidal ideation, self-injurious behavior (superficial cutting and head banging), anxiety, depression, and anger outburst...

Beginning with DSM-III-R, the condition of an intact insight towards obsessive-compulsive symptoms, which was essential for the classical definition of obsessivecompulsive neurosis, has been removed, permitting inclusion of cases with poor insight. A total of 94 cases who met DSM-III-R criteria for obsessive-compulsive disorder were included in this study. The Structured Clinical Interview for ...

Kristen Porter Ian Hales Capstone ATLS 4010 March 11, 2015 DSM-V Revisions and The Interpretation of Measurable Traits Versus The Diagnoses of Personality Disorders Personality disorders are commonly defined as patterns of cognition, affectivity, interpersonal behavior, and impulse control that culturally deviate from the norm, that are pervasive, inflexible, and substantially hinder the daily ...

Background. Impairments of neurocognitive performance in female pa tients with anorexia nervosa have been reported in many studies. To our know ledge neuropsychological studies of male eating disorder patients remain rare. The goals of our study were to present the profile of neurocognitive functioning in a male adolescent anorexia nervosa patient and, given that the clinical manifestation of b...

objective: the relationship between obsessive compulsive disorder and schizophrenia has been a matter of dispute for ages. this study aimed to investigate the differences between schizophrenia with obsessive compulsive symptoms (ocs) and schizophrenia without ocs in affecting positive and negative symptoms of schizophrenia.  methods: study participants comprised 30 patients with schizophrenia w...

during the past three decades, there have been several studies concerning the efficacy of drugs and behavior therapy for treating obsessivecompulsive disorder. the high rates of relapse, and number of patients withour any improvement has turned clinicians attention toward the cognitive-behavior therapy (cbt) for the treatment of this disorder.this article has examined the efficacy of cognitive ...

safety climate received substantial attention due to its potential for explaining variation in safety-related outcomes. aim of present study was to determine degree of safety climate related to incidents reporting rate and its dimensions among workers’ isfahan steel company. a self-administered anonymous was distributed to 189 workers. the survey included demographic factors, incidents reportin...

Neuroscience presents great challenges and opportunities for psychotherapy. This article proposes recommendations and avenues for practice. Neurological knowledge is being employed in psychotherapy in three broad ways. First, it is used to explain and justify existing practices in psychotherapy, (e.g., the neuropsychoanalysis of Mark Solms). Second, neural localization studies are used to devis...