Inventing Diseases: Kleptomania, Agoraphobia and Resistance to Modernity

Counteracting Resistance in Agoraphobia Using Hypnosis

Agoraphobia is an extremely complex disorder to treat in clinical practice (Chambless, 1982a; Kaplan & Sadock, 1991) and patients are often resistant to therapy (Fava et al., 1997; Kellerman, 2010). Resistance takes on many forms including refusing to visit the practitioner in the first place, confrontation, symptom substitution, over-reliance on a ‘safe person’ (Carter & Schultz, 1998), focusi...

Kleptomania, mood disorder and lithium.

Kleptomania has been found in association with major depression in a fairly large number of reports in recent years. We describe a patient with concurrent DSM-III-R Bipolar Mood Disorder and Kleptomania, whose symptoms remitted completely, apparently in response to lithium therapy, which raised the possibility that pharmacological treatment may benefit kleptomania. Further studies are needed to...

Phenomenology and Post-Modernity

Phenomenology and Post-Modernity

Genetic diseases conferring resistance to infectious diseases

Genetic diseases conferring resistance to infectious diseases Isabelle C. Withrock , Stephen J. Anderson , Matthew A. Jefferson , Garrett R. McCormack , Gregory S.A. Mlynarczyk , Aron Nakama , Jennifer K. Lange , Carrie A. Berg , Sreemoyee Acharya , Matthew L. Stock , Melissa S. Lind , K.C. Luna , Naveen C. Kondru , Sireesha Manne , Bhavika B. Patel , Bierlein M. de la Rosa , Kuei-Pin Huang , S...