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Volume 157 - Issue 4 - October 1990

Contents

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Brief Reports

  • Delusional Misidentification, AIDS and the Right Hemisphere

  • Paul Crichton, Shôn Lewis
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    02 January 2018, pp. 608-610

  • A patient with AIDS developed the Capgras' syndrome as part of an acute confusional state resulting from an opportunistic infection. Neuropsychological testing suggested non-dominant hemisphere dysfunction with impaired facial recognition. Serial CT scanning showed a right parietal lesion which resolved after the psychosis improved. These findings provide further evidence for the hypothesis that selective visuospatial deficits underlie the development of Capgras' syndrome.

  • Temporary Munchausen Syndrome

  • P. M. Higgins
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    02 January 2018, pp. 613-616

  • Over 14 years a patient was admitted at least 91 times to at least 25 general and four psychiatric hospitals and treated for a wide range of conditions that she did not have. She appears to have recovered. The medical and psychiatric care she received probably contributed to the onset of this disorder in a person already vulnerable, and to its maintenance.

Correspondence

  • Neuroleptic malignant syndrome

  • Silvia Gratz, George Simpson
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    02 January 2018, pp. 617-618
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  • Calcium-channel blockade and depressive illness

  • R. H. McAllister-Williams
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    02 January 2018, pp. 618-619
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  • Investigating psychosurgery

  • P. K. Bridges
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    02 January 2018, p. 619
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  • WHO consensus statement

  • M. A. Abas, S. W. Acuda, J. C. Broadhead, I. V. Chagwedera, F. B. Chikara, J. M. Piachaud, M. Stefanovic, J. Vermeulen
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    02 January 2018, pp. 619-620
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  • Benefits of routine laboratory investigations

  • Peter Kamp, Richard B. Rosse
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    02 January 2018, pp. 620-621
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  • Dyskinesia in the mentally handicapped

  • D. Kohen, G. Mathew
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    02 January 2018, p. 621
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  • Linguistics of schizophrenia

  • Hugh B. G. Thomas
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    02 January 2018, pp. 621-622
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  • Understanding Capgras syndrome

  • D. N. Anderson
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    02 January 2018, pp. 622-623
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  • Multifactorial intoxication?

  • Robert Colgate
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    02 January 2018, p. 623
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  • Memories in depression: Pleasant or unpleasant?

  • Eytan Bachar, Avraham Calev, Baruch Shapira, Bernard Lerer
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    02 January 2018, pp. 623-624
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  • Expressed emotion and lithium prophylaxis

  • S. Priebe, C. Wildgrube
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    02 January 2018, p. 624
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  • Pseudocyesis followed by depressive psychosis

  • Bridget Craddock, Nick Craddock, L. I. Liebling
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    02 January 2018, pp. 624-625
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  • Ethics of ‘brain transplants’

  • Chess Denman
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    02 January 2018, p. 625
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Correction

A Hundred Years Ago

Books Reconsidered

  • Bereavement: Studies of Grief in Adult Life: C. M. Parkes

  • David A. Alexander
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    02 January 2018, pp. 627-629

  • When he submitted his dissertation on Morbid Grief Reactions: A Review of the Literature to the University of London in 1959, Parkes made his first major contribution to the study of grief and bereavement. There followed a series of publications (e.g. Parkes, 1965, 1971) which culminated in the first edition of the book reconsidered here. On my first reading of this book, I was reminded of Samuel Johnson's comment that “the two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, and familiar things new”. Parkes' descriptions of unusual reactions to loss are presented in a fashion which makes them feel reassuringly familiar, and those reactions which are more commonplace are described in a way which requires us to consider them anew.

Book Reviews

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