Hommage à Raymond A. Landry

Hommage to reactive psychosis.

When looking back in the history of psychiatry, the concept of reactivity had very variable impact on ethiological considerations. If classification of mental disorders is taken as a proxy, it seems that this impact is presently at the lowest that it has been in the last hundred years. The author gives a short historical overview of concept of reactive psychosis, followed by a description of th...

223-230 Landry

In previous analyses of the 1988 National Maternal and Infant Health Survey (NMIHS) and the 1988 National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG), we found that after differences in demographic and socioeconomic characteristics were taken into account, mothers who had intended to conceive were more likely than those who had not to recognize their pregnancy within the first six weeks and to initiate pren...

261-266 Landry/Forrest

(800,000), syphilis (101,000)2 and trichomoniasis (three million).3 For viral STDs, however, there is no cure; these include human papilloma virus (between 500,000 and one million cases annually), genital herpes (200,000–500,000), sexually transmitted hepatitis B (53,000) and the human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV (which is responsible for 90,000 cases of AIDS annually).4 STDs other than HIV ...

280-286 Landry

sexually active young people should have access to birth control, and only two in 10 object to that proposition.2 Public opinion regarding the scope of sexuality education is consonant with the weight of research in this area. In February 1997, for example, the Consensus Panel on AIDS of the National Institutes of Health declared that the “abstinenceonly” approach “places policy in direct confl...

Raymond Hu