Harvard Mental Health Letter articles from July 2006

Harvard Mental Health Letter archives from July 2006

The negative symptoms of schizophrenia.
July 1, 2006... They are pervasive but sometimes invisible -- and especially difficult to treat. Hallucinations and delusions are the most vivid and conspicuous symptoms of schizophrenia. Many people regard imaginary voices in the head and bizarre ideas...

Borderline personality disorder: Treatment.
July 1, 2006... Personality, by definition, is pervasive and ingrained, not an isolated set of troubling symptoms. Borderline personalities usually do not seek mental health care to have their characters transformed; they want help for depression, anxiety, and...

In Brief; Genetic counseling in psychiatry.
July 1, 2006... Explaining genetic aspects of mental health problems is only a small part of psychiatric treatment, according to an article in the Harvard Review of Psychiatry, but scientific advances will increase both the demand for genetic counseling and...

In Brief; Equal treatment for mental health: Costs and benefits.
July 1, 2006... Health plans can provide equal benefits for mental illness without incurring runaway costs, according to a study published in March in the New England Journal of Medicine, but only with some form of managed care. Since 2001, the Federal...

In Brief; When is an experience traumatic?(memory dont cause post traumatic stress disorder)
July 1, 2006... One of the few psychiatric disorders that has a known cause is post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The symptoms occur after witnessing or experiencing events that involve actual or threatened death or serious injury and inspire intense fear,...

Questions & Answers.(happiness of retirees)
July 1, 2006... Q. What are the signs that a person will be happy in retirement? A. It doesn't depend on income or status acquired earlier in life, according to research reported by Dr. George Vaillant and his colleagues in the April 2006 issue of the...