Molecular Psychiatry 1996: High immediacy index

1996 Index

mental health and psychiatry in afghanistan – 1996

in the past three decades afghanistan has faced many crises such as lack of central government authority, foreign invasion to the country and internal conflict between governments which have led to bas mental health and health conditions. even some psychiatric centers and activities in the area of psychiatry and mental health that were established and started activity with the help of who were ...

Journal of Molecular Psychiatry

It is my pleasure to welcome you to the new Journal of Molecular Psychiatry – JMP! Molecular Psychiatry is a rapidly expanding field and there are high hopes that its findings will improve the condition of patients suffering from psychiatric disorders in terms of diagnosis, prognosis and therapy. There is only a limited number of journals specialising in this exciting area, and we believe that ...

Self-Harm ‘Survivors’ and Psychiatry in England, 1988–1996

This paper considers aspects of language and its relation to political practices in psychiatry. It analyses the ways in which groups of psychiatric patients – selfdefined ‘self-harm survivors’ – have resisted psychiatry’s power to define their experiences in terms of the ‘official’ category, ‘Deliberate self-harm’ (DSH). DSH refers to self-inflicted injurious acts that do not result in death, i...

Schizophrenia: The Immediacy Mechanism

This paper reviews Immediacy Theory which posits a mechanism making schizophrenic behavior preponderantly controlled by stimuli immediate in the patient’s environment. It reviewed all studies of schizophrenia in the 2003 year of the Journal of Abnormal Psychology. Of those 12 studies, nine were found to confirm that mechanism and three not to be relevant.