Archives of Suicide Research
2004
J Mark G Williams, Michaela Swales
Mindfulness-based approaches are becoming more widely used for individuals at risk of suicidal behavior: in the treatment of borderline personality disorder (in Dialectical Behavior Therapy), and as a way to reduce relapse in recurrent major depression (in Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy). This article describes and examines the commonalities and differences in the use of mindfulness in...
Primary care companion to the Journal of clinical psychiatry
2004
Jennifer K. Carroll
OBJECTIVE: To study how mental illness is understood, expressed, and treated among Somali refugees and how these factors influence use of health services for mental problems. METHOD: Seventeen adult Somali refugees (9 women, 8 men) were recruited by mail or by word-of-mouth to participate in the study. The study setting was an urban community health center in Rochester, N.Y., that provides...
Clinical Psychology Science and Practice
2004
Adele M. Hayes, Greg Feldman
711 citations
Bishop et al. (this issue) propose an operational definition of mindfulness developed by a recent consensus panel. The group provides a solid empirical framework from which to develop measures of mindfulness, and they propose an exciting research agenda. We describe measurement development work from our research group that provides initial support for the proposed consensus definition and that...
Adicciones
December 15, 2003
Pedro Lorenzo Fernández, Ignacio Lizasoain Hernández
En este capítulo hacemos una revisión de las características farmacológicas de las principales drogas recreativas englobadas en 2 grupos: drogas de diseño y alucinógenos. Las drogas de diseño (término acuñado por G Henderson) comprenden: el grupo de los derivados de las feniletilaminas (derivados de anfetaminas) como el MDMA (éxtasis), el grupo de los opiáceos sean derivados del fentanilo o de...
Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences
December 1, 2003
Mehmet Yucel Agargun, Hayrettin Kara, Ömer Akil Özer et al.
Abstract In the present study the prevalence of nightmare disorder (ND) was examined in patients with dissociative disorders (DD), and comparison was made between those with ND and those without nightmares in terms of clinical characteristics. The 30 patients with DD (5 male and 25 female) were recruited over 12 months in the Yüzüncü Yil University Research Hospital Department of Psychiatry....
Emergency Medicine News
December 1, 2003
Leon Gussow
A 25-year-old man was brought to the emergency department from a late-night dance club. A friend reported that the patient commonly used designer drugs that he purchased over the Internet. While at the club, he started to vomit and experience visual hallucinations. He had no previous medical history and took no prescription medications. On searching the patient's clothing, medical staff found...
The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
October 1, 2003
Robin Bitner, Lorena Hillman, Bruce Victor et al.
20 citations
The use of antidepressants continues to increase, yet relatively little is known about their precise subjective effects, and there is growing concern about subtle psychological side effects. One novel investigative approach to these problems may be to use introspectively trained subjects such as meditators. Experienced meditators recently taking antidepressants rated antidepressant effects on...
Journal of Traumatic Stress
October 1, 2003
David Forbes, Andrea J Phelps, Anthony F McHugh et al.
Nightmares are often a distressing symptom for veterans with chronic combat-related posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). A psychological treatment that has recently shown considerable promise is Imagery Rehearsal Therapy (IRT). In a pilot study by the current authors, IRT was demonstrated to be effective in the treatment of posttraumatic nightmares in a group of combat veterans up to 3-month...
Human Psychopharmacology: Clinical and Experimental
October 1, 2003
Suzanne L. Verheyden, John A. Henry, Helen Valerie Curran
171 citations
Abstract This study examined the reported psychological effects of different patterns of MDMA use in men and women, and how they are modified by use of other psychoactive substances. A semi‐structured interview was conducted with 466 regular MDMA users, exploring the perceived acute, sub‐acute and long‐term subjective effects of this drug. Factor analysis established three main categories of...
L information littéraire
September 1, 2003
Nathalie Ferrand
Depression, anxiety and existential distress associated with terminal illness have a major impact on quality of life among palliative care patients. Psychedelics are emerging as catalysts for reflective, introspective and sometimes spiritual exploration as part of psychotherapy, with potentially rapid and long-lasting multiple beneficial effects. Psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy (PAP)...