Suicidal behavior in adolescent and young adult gay men - Schneider, Stephen G.; Farberow, Norman L.; Kruks, Gabriel N. (Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 1989)
The relationship of homosexuality to suicidal behavior was explored by questionnaire responses from 52 men in gay-and-lesbian college organizations and 56 men in gay rap groups. A family background of alcoholism and physical abuse, social supports perceived as rejecting of homosexuality, and no religious affiliation were associated with a history of suicidal ideation, reported by 55% of the Ss. Suicide attempts, reported by 20% of the Ss, were most often associated with intrapersonal distress, and occurred most often while Ss were 'closeted' and/or in the context of recent rejection for being homosexual. Suicidal behavior in gay youths may be the product both of familial factors that predispose youths to suicidal behavior, and of social and intrapersonal stressors involved in coming to terms with an emerging homosexual identity. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: suicidal ideation & behaviors; 16–24 yr old gay males; Adolescent; Adult; Family; Homosexuality; Humans; Male; Religion and Psychology; Social Support; Stress, Psychological; Suicide, Attempted; Violence; Ideation; Male Homosexuality; Suicide

Suicide risk among gay men and lesbians: A review - Saunders, Judith M.; Valente, S. M. (Death Studies, 1987)
Discusses empirical data, theoretical issues, and other research issues involved in the study of suicide risk factors among homosexual men and women. Three large, well-designed studies found that homosexuals attempt suicide 2–7 times more often than do heterosexual comparison groups. Homosexuals exhibit significantly high rates of risk factors associated with suicide, including alcohol and drug abuse and interrupted social ties. Anomie, as described by E. Durkheim (1951), is applied to elucidate suicide rates among homosexuals. The need for sensitive research methodologies, decreased heterosexual bias, creative network sampling strategies, and confidentiality is discussed. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: theoretical & research issues involved in suicide risk factors; homosexual males & females; At Risk Populations; Attempted Suicide; Lesbianism; Male Homosexuality; Suicide; Alcoholism; Drug Abuse; Theories

One in Ten: Responding to Gay and Lesbian Adolescents - Christiansen, Martha Dennis (Contemporary Psychology, 1996)
The experience of gay and lesbian youth struggling to integrate their sexual orientation into a healthy self-concept typically takes place in a predominantly heterosexual school environment. Besner and Spungin (see record [rid]1995-98426-000[/rid]) set the context for their book by documenting that among many other serious school-related problems, AIDS continues to threaten health and life, and completed suicides and suicide attempts by young gay and lesbian students reaches alarming proportions. Thus, the full range of school personnel needs a compact compendium, such as this book, to help respond without prejudice and misinformation to the needs of young people negotiating the developmental tasks of identity and intimacy, of which understanding one's sexual orientation is no small part. The reviewer suggests that Besner and Spungin have taken on a very ambitious task and are successful in meeting their goals in the chapters on debunking myths and providing help. In these efforts, they provide the educator with specific examples, practical tools, and clear explanations that can be used as models for informal classroom discussion, formal curriculum development, and casual conversation with students. She feels that, overall, this book is an accessible and effective introduction for educators encountering gay and lesbian adolescents. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: sexual orientation; gay & lesbian students; needs; school-related problems; school personnel; Educational Personnel; Needs; School Environment; Sexual Orientation; Students; Lesbianism; Male Homosexuality

Mixed factitious disorder presenting as AIDS - Bialer, Philip A.; Wallack, Joel J. (Hospital & Community Psychiatry, 1990)
Presents the case of a 27-yr-old homosexual man with factitious acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) who claimed to have both physical and psychiatric symptoms and who fraudulently gained 3 admissions to 2 different psychiatric facilities. Distinctions between malingering and factitious disorder are described. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: physical & psychiatric symptoms; male homosexual 27 yr old with factitious AIDS; case report; Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome; Adult; Depressive Disorder; Factitious Disorders; Fraud; HIV Seropositivity; Histrionic Personality Disorder; Homosexuality; Humans; Male; Opportunistic Infections; Patient Admission; Referral and Consultation; Suicide; AIDS; Factitious Disorders; Male Homosexuality; Case Report

Contagious self-mutilation - Fennig, Silvana; Carlson, Gabrielle A.; Fennig, Shmuel (Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 1995)
Briefly reviews self-mutilation (SMT) behavior and presents observations on an outbreak of SMT in a public school. Most Ss involved did not demonstrate any severe overt psychopathology and all belonged to the leading social inner circle. The behavior seemed to be contagious; girls were more involved than boys. Self-mutilators had higher rates of bisexual behavior and suicidal ideation. Isolation of the hard core Ss seemed to be the only effective means of controlling these phenomena. Recommendations for adolescent psychiatrists are offered. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: psychiatric consultation for contagious self mutilation; junior high school students; letter; Adolescent; Anxiety; Depression; Disease Outbreaks; Educational Status; Female; Humans; Imitative Behavior; Internal-External Control; Male; Mass Behavior; Risk Factors; Self Mutilation; Social Environment; Contagion; Professional Consultation; Self-Mutilation; Psychiatry

Parasuicide, gender, and gender deviance - Harry, Joseph (Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 1983)
Hypothesized that gender-role nonconformity during childhood is associated with social isolation that, in turn, is related to suicidal feelings and attempts. Suicidality-parasuicide was measured by a series of questions put to 686 gay males, 337 heterosexual males, 293 lesbians, and 140 heterosexual females in fall 1969 and spring 1970; all Ss were primarily 24–55 yrs old. Data support the hypothesis; however, childhood gender-role nonconformity was more consequential for later suicide of males than of females. Results show that gender deviance was more benign in females than in males. (43 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: childhood gender role conformity; social isolation & suicidal feelings & attempts; gay vs heterosexual males & lesbian vs heterosexual females; Adult; Child; Child Behavior; Female; Gender Identity; Homosexuality; Humans; Identification (Psychology); Male; Middle Aged; Self-Injurious Behavior; Sex Factors; Social Isolation; Suicide, Attempted; Attempted Suicide; Human Sex Differences; Psychosexual Development; Sex Roles; Social Isolation; Lesbianism; Male Homosexuality

Clinical features of the female homosexual patient: A comparison with the heterosexual patient - Swanson, David W.; Loomis, S. Dale; Lukesh, Robert; Cronin, Robert; Smith, Jackson A. (Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 1972)
Compared 40 female homosexuals who sought treatment with a control group of 40 nonhomosexual female psychiatric patients. The lesbian patients were like lesbians generally, except that they had less stable homosexual relationships. Ss differed significantly from controls in the following ways: increased paternal abusiveness and alcoholism, different vocational choice, an expected indifference toward men, and increased drug abuse. A trend toward more suicidal behavior was noted in the homosexual group. No major historic factors were related specifically to homosexuality, and the conflict over homosexuality was only l factor (not a primary one) that caused the patient to seek treatment. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: clinical characteristics; female homosexuals seeking treatment vs. nonhomosexual female psychiatric patients; Adolescent; Adult; Anxiety; Depression; Family Characteristics; Female; Homosexuality; Humans; Schizophrenia; Sexual Behavior; Substance-Related Disorders; Suicide; Human Females; Lesbianism; Psychiatric Patients; Psychopathology

'Auto-erotic asphyxial death: Analysis of nineteen fatalities in Alberta': Comment - Cooper, A. J. (The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry / La Revue canadienne de psychiatrie, 1995)
Comments on the article by S. C. Tough et al (see record [rid]1994-40897-001[/rid]) concerning auto-erotic asphyxial deaths, and presents 2 additional case reports to add to the data base. The 1st case is an accidental asphyxial death due to hanging and the 2nd case is a survivor of extreme auto-erotic masochistic practices. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: clinical & demographic characteristics; 15–50 yr old victims of autoerotic asphyxial death; Canada; case reports; commentary; Accidents, Home; Adult; Asphyxia; Cause of Death; Dangerous Behavior; Expert Testimony; Humans; Insurance Claim Review; Male; Masochism; Masturbation; Suicide; Death and Dying; Epidemiology; Paraphilias; Psychosexual Behavior; Case Report; Demographic Characteristics

Ignoring the evidence dictating the practice: Sexual orientation, suicidality and the dichotomy of the mental health nurse: Repsonse - McAndrew, Susan; Warne, Tony (Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, 2004)
Reply by the current author to the comments made by Kenneth J. Zucker (see record [rid]2005-02144-018[/rid]) on the original article (see record [rid]2004-16490-009[/rid]). For the point of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), we stand corrected in the use of the word 'replacing' in the abstract of our article. However the point that we were wishing to make relates to the implications implicit in associating mental illness that is diagnostic labelling under the DSM and/or International Classification of Diseases, with a person's given sexual identity which deviates from the so called 'norm' of heterosexuality. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: sexual orientation; suicidality; mental health nursing; homosexuals; evidence; practice; Evidence Based Practice; Mental Health Services; Psychiatric Nurses; Sexual Orientation; Suicide; Suicidality

'Social work with gay and lesbian adolescents': Erratum - Morrow, Deana F. (Social Work, 1994)
Reports an error in the original article by D. F. Morrow (Social Work, 1993[Nov], Vol 38[6], 655–660). The Resources list on page 660 contains incorrect information about the 1st resource; the correct name and address are given. (The following abstract of this article originally appeared in PA, Vol 81:14956.) Issues pertinent to social work with lesbian and gay adolescents are examined in the context of 3 main social institutions: the family, the social culture, and the educational setting. Social workers' roles in providing families with information and support, and evaluating suicide risk are discussed. Suggestions are made for improving intervention with this population, including increasing personal awareness of one's own homophobia; educating oneself and client groups about homosexuality; establishing positive social support programs to serve lesbian and gay adolescents; advocating for sanctions to end gay and lesbian harassment in the educational system; supporting the hiring of openly gay and lesbian teachers; and advocating for the inclusion of sexual orientation in school sex education curricula. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2018 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: social work issues; gay & lesbian adolescents; erratum; Lesbianism; Male Homosexuality; Social Casework

Stresses on lesbian and gay adolescents in schools - Hunter, Joyce; Schaecher, Robert (Social Work in Education, 1987)
Notes that an awareness of homosexual orientation often emerges in students during their high school years and that a significant portion of these self-identified adolescents experience unique stresses (i.e., rejection from family, pressure from peer groups, social isolation, harrassment and violence, suicide risk) that the school system could recognize and address in an affirmative manner. It is suggested that the role of the school social worker in such cases should be to promote understanding, tolerance, sympathy, and compassion and address on all levels the policies that have a negative effect on lesbian and gay students. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: stress factors & supportive role of school social worker; homosexual adolescents; Homosexuality; School Counseling; Social Adjustment; Stress; High School Students; Junior High School Students; Social Casework

The transsexual patient: A problem in self-perception - Guze, Henry (Transactions of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1967)
TRANSSEXUALISM INVOLVES BASICALLY A DISORDER OF THE BODY IMAGE. THIS MAY RESULT FROM IMPRINTING AND/OR CONSTITUTIONAL PREDISPOSITION. THOSE SEEKING TRANSSEXUAL OPERATIONS INCLUDE INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE STRUCTURALLY EFFEMINATE, TRAINED TO A CROSS-GENDER ROLE, HAVE PROBLEMS OF SELF-IDENTIFICATION, AND HOMOSEXUALS. TRANSSEXUALS AND TRANSVESTITES SHOW SYMPTOM EXACERBATIONS AND DIMINUTIONS. TRANVESTITES SEEM LESS APT TO CROSS-DRESS WHEN WITH TRANSSEXUALS. TRANSSEXUALS ARE OFTEN SUICIDAL OR SELF-MUTILATIVE. FETISHISM MAY BE INVOLVED IN BOTH TRANSSEXUALISM AND TRANVESTITISM. TRANSSEXUALS SEEM VERBAL, SENSITIVE, PASSIVE, DEPRESSED, FANTASYING, AND AFRAID OF VIOLENCE. SOME BEHAVE LIKE MALE ANIMALS CONSISTENTLY DEFEATED IN PHYSICAL ENCOUNTER. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2017 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: TRANSSEXUAL; SELF-PERCEPTION; Female; Humans; Male; Transsexualism; Paraphilias; Self-Perception

'Sexual orientation in adolescents who commit suicide': Erratum - Shaffer, David; Fisher, Prudence; Parides, Michael; Gould, Madelyn (Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 1996)
Reports an error in the original article by D. Shaffer et al (Suicide & Life Threatening Behavior, 1995, Vol 25(Suppl), 64–71). On page 67, under the Measures section, the text incorrectly indicated that the Diagnostic Interview Schedule for Children was used for assessment of psychiatric diagnoses and sexual orientation. The reference for the correct interview is presented. (The following abstract of this article originally appeared in record 83:17438.) Examined the relationship between suicidal behavior and homosexuality in adolescence in a psychological autopsy study of 120 of 170 consecutive suicides under age 20 (unselected sample), and 147 matched controls. The criteria for homosexuality was defined as having had homosexual experiences or having declared a homosexual orientation. Three teenagers and none of the controls met this criteria. The circumstances of the death of the case, along with their history, indicate a slightly, but not significantly high rate of homosexual experience among teen suicides, than among controls. The rates of homosexuality appeared similar to those reported in general population. In none of the 3 cases did suicide directly follow an episode of stigmatization.… (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: homosexuality & stigmatization; 17–20 yr old suicide victims; erratum; Homosexuality; Stigma; Suicide

The aging gender dysphoria (transsexual) patient - Lothstein, L. M. (Archives of Sexual Behavior, 1979)
Discusses the psychiatric profile, sexual functioning, problems with aging, diagnostic issues, and follow-up of 10 aging gender dysphoria (GD) patients (average age 52 yrs). It is reported that the aging GD patient presents in acute crisis, that is, exhibits marked depression, increased suicidal ideation and behavior, and urgent perception of time. Diagnostic and treatment recommendations for aging GD patients and their depressions are provided, and guidelines are suggested for differentiating the aging transvestite with transsexual symptoms and the aging transsexual for whom sex-reassignment surgery may be indicated. Specific treatment strategies, including sexual surgery, are discussed. (30 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: psychiatric profile & sexual functioning & problems with aging & diagnostic issues & treatment strategies; aging transsexuals; Aging; Depression; Female; Gender Identity; Homosexuality; Humans; Male; Middle Aged; Psychological Tests; Sexual Behavior; Transsexualism; Transvestism; Diagnosis; Physiological Aging; Psychodynamics; Transsexualism; Treatment

The acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) and suicidal behavior in alcohol-dependent homosexual men - Flavin, Daniel K.; Franklin, John E.; Frances, Richard J. (The American Journal of Psychiatry, 1986)
Describes 3 alcoholic homosexual men (aged 37–39 yrs) with suicidal ideation and behavior who consciously attempted to contract AIDS as a means of committing suicide. Ss were seen in an inpatient alcohol treatment service. The interrelationships among alcoholism and substance abuse, homosexuality, suicidal behavior, and AIDS are examined, and implications for the substance abuse treatment setting are noted. It is suggested that early diagnosis and treatment of depression and substance abuse in homosexuals may prevent the spread of AIDS and reduce suicide potential. (13 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: suicidal ideation & conscious attempt to contract acquired immune deficiency syndrome; alcoholic homosexual 37–39 yr old males; implications for substance abuse treatment; 3 case reports; Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome; Adult; Alcoholism; Homosexuality; Humans; Male; Substance-Related Disorders; Suicide, Attempted; Attempted Suicide; Immunologic Disorders; Male Homosexuality; Alcohol Treatment; Case Report

Epidemiological studies of female prisoners: IV Homosexual behavior - Climent, Carlos E.; Ervin, Frank R.; Rolliins, Ann; Plutchick, Robert; Batinelli, Catello J. (Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 1977)
Investigated the existence of homosexual behavior in female offenders not only as an adaptive process but as an established behavior existing prior to detention. 95 prisoners from a Massachusetts women's prison were included: 26 were self-reported homosexuals, 42 were considered homosexuals by prison staff, and 27 were nonhomosexuals. Suicidal thoughts, suicidal attempts, psychiatric problems during menstruation, and a history of violent crimes against persons were characteristic of the homosexual group, whereas a history of crimes against self and property as well as history of alcoholism were common in the nonhomosexual group. Findings from the homosexual prisoners support the hypothesis that aggressive impulses may be expressed either externally or toward the self, the problem being one of impairment in control mechanisms. The findings also support the idea that violent behavior, as shown by this group of incarcerated homosexual females, is multidetermined. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: medical & psychiatric differences & violent & suicidal behavior; female prisoners who were homosexuals prior to prison detention vs who became homosexual in prison vs nonhomosexuals; Adaptation, Psychological; Adult; Criminal Psychology; Female; Homosexuality; Humans; Menstruation Disturbances; Prisoners; Suicide, Attempted; Violence; Attempted Suicide; Human Females; Lesbianism; Prisoners; Violence

Sexual aggression and attitudes toward women and mothers - McCollaum, Bruce; Lester, David (The Journal of Social Psychology, 1997)
Explored several factors predictive of sexual aggression in male students: general hostility and aggression, hostility toward women as a group, and hostility toward one's mother. 65 male college students completed questionnaires. A sexual experience survey was scored both for the total number of sexually aggressive behaviors and for the most seriously aggressive sexual conduct. These 2 measures were significantly associated and gave identical patterns of results in the subsequent analyses. Hostility toward both mothers and women as a group contributed significantly to sexual aggression. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: general hostility & hostility toward own mother & women as group; sexual aggression; male college students; Aggressive Behavior; Hostility; Mother Child Relations; Psychosexual Behavior; Human Males

Demographic and mental status profiles: Patients with homicidal, assaultive, suicidal, persecutory and homosexual ideation - Altman, Harold; Sletten, Ivan W.; Eaton, Mary E.; Ulett, George A. (Psychiatric Quarterly, 1971)
Developed equations from 87 demographic and mental status variables of 2,078 ss to predict 5 clinically important types of ideation: homicidal, assaultive, suicidal, paranoid, and homosexual. The equations were then cross-validated on 2,078 patients. Multiple correlations ranged from .25-.48 and were all statistically significant. 0-order correlations for the 10 strongest predictors of each type of ideation are presented. It is concluded that the prediction equations developed should make it possible for clinicians to improve the accuracy of their assessment of the true status of their patients for these 5 types of ideation. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: homicidal & assaultive & suicidal & persecutory & homosexual ideation prediction; demographic & mental status profiles; psychiatric patients; Adolescent; Adult; Aged; Aggression; Automatic Data Processing; Automation; Child; Demography; Female; Filing; Homicide; Homosexuality; Hospitalization; Humans; Male; Medical Records; Mental Disorders; Mental Processes; Middle Aged; Missouri; Paranoid Disorders; Probability; Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; Suicide; Crime; Demographic Characteristics; Homosexuality; Suicide; Criminal Offenders; Psychiatric Patients; Mental Status

A retrospective study of epidemiological and clinical aspects of 28 transsexual patients - O'Gorman, Ethna C. (Archives of Sexual Behavior, 1982)
Investigated prevalence, age, marital status, sex, occupation, religion, referral agent, and age of onset of transsexualism in 21 transsexual males and 7 transsexual females in Northern Ireland. Other aspects investigated included cross-dressing, homosexual activity, personal and family history of psychiatric illness, and child–parent relationships. Half the Ss had a history of psychiatric illness, including psychotic episodes, anorexia nervosa, and depression. Seven Ss had a family history of psychiatric illness. At the end of the study 18 Ss were living in a condition in keeping with their anatomical state, 7 were living out their desired sex role, 1 had had gender reassignment surgery, and 2 had died—1 from suicide. (13 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: epidemiology & age & marital status & sex & occupation & religion & referral agent & age at onset & clinical features; transsexual males & females aged 14–46 yrs; Northern Ireland; Adolescent; Adult; Female; Homosexuality; Humans; Male; Middle Aged; Northern Ireland; Parents; Retrospective Studies; Transsexualism; Epidemiology; Marital Status; Occupations; Transsexualism

San Diego suicide study: Comparison of gay to straight males - Rich, Charles L.; Fowler, Richard C.; Young, Deborah; Blenkush, Mary (Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 1986)
Compared data on 13 homosexual males (aged 21–42 yrs) in a series of 283 suicides with data on 106 other age-matched male suicides. Both groups showed considerable substance abuse plus a variety of other psychiatric diagnoses and also had a high frequency of relationship difficulties near the time of death. Gays who committed suicide did not have a history of more police trouble, were no more likely to be living alone than the comparison group, and did not have more prior suicide attempts or previous psychiatric treatment. It is concluded that there is little difference between gay and heterosexual male suicides. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: drug abuse & psychiatric diagnoses & relationship difficulties & other stressors; 21–42 yr old homosexual vs heterosexual males who committed suicide; Adult; California; Gender Identity; Homosexuality; Humans; Male; Mental Disorders; Substance-Related Disorders; Suicide; Drug Abuse; Heterosexuality; Human Males; Male Homosexuality; Suicide; Mental Disorders; Stress

Review of HIV and psychiatry A training and resource manual Second edition - Balon, Richard (Annals of Clinical Psychiatry, 2007)
Reviews the book, HIV and Psychiatry. A Training and Resource Manual. Second Edition edited by Kenneth Citron, Marie-Josee Brouilette, and Alexandra Beckett (2005). The chapters in this book cover a wide array of issues, such as general principles of pharmacotherapy; general principles of psychotherapy; HIV and substance use disorders; cognitive disorders in people living with HIV; mood disorders; psychosis; anxiety disorders; suicidal behavior and HIV infection; psychiatric issues in pediatric HIV/AIDS; women and HIV; uninfected children of parents with HIV; psychological issues faced by gay men; couples; HIV and cultural diversity (African Americans, Latinos, and Native Americans and HIV); HIV in prison populations; legal and ethical issues; and many others. The chapters are well organized, well written in an easy to understand style, and consistent across the entire volume (partially due to the help of a professional writer). Whenever appropriate, chapters include interesting case studies. The text is well referenced and chapters are frequently accompanied by suggested reading and even website addresses. The book is clearly quite comprehensive in its coverage of usual and unusual issues. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: HIV; psychiatry; pharmacotherapy; psychotherapy; mental disorders; cultural diversity; Drug Therapy; HIV; Psychiatry; Psychotherapy; Sociocultural Factors; Mental Disorders; Cultural Diversity

Suicide among homosexual adolescents - Kourany, Ronald F. (Journal of Homosexuality, 1987)
Surveyed 66 psychiatrists who specialize in adolescence concerning suicide among homosexual adolescents. Results suggest that many experts are not working with homosexual adolescents. The majority of those treating homosexual adolescents considered them to be at higher risk for suicide and agreed that their suicidal gestures were more severe than those of other adolescents. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: treatment of & reported prevalence of suicide among homosexual adolescents; psychiatrists; Adolescent; Homosexuality; Humans; Risk; Suicide; Suicide, Attempted; Adolescent Psychiatry; At Risk Populations; Homosexuality; Suicide; Psychiatrists

AIDS-related illness and AIDS risk in male homo/bisexual substance abusers: Case reports and clinical issues - Westermeyer, Joseph; Seppala, Marvin; Gasow, Shelly; Carlson, Gregory (The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse, 1989)
Undertook a case analysis to clarify the issues involved with acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) and substance abuse in a sample of 18 homosexual and bisexual men (aged 23–51 yrs) in a substance abuse program at a university medical center (3 AIDS, 3 AIDS-related complex, 9 seropositive only, and 3 seronegative high risk patients). Most Ss had abused 3 or more different substances, had used drugs parenterally, had had more than 50 sex partners, and/or had received previous substance abuse treatment. Affective disorder, suicide attempt, and antisocial personality were frequent. About half of the Ss complied with treatment and showed improvement in their substance disorder. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: client characteristics & drug rehabilitation; substance abusing 23–39 yr old males with or at risk for AIDS or ARC; AIDS-Related Complex; Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome; Adult; Alcoholism; Bisexuality; HIV Seropositivity; Homosexuality; Humans; Male; Middle Aged; Risk Factors; Sexual Behavior; Substance Abuse, Intravenous; AIDS; At Risk Populations; Client Characteristics; Substance Use Treatment; Drug Abuse

The clinical profile of male transsexuals living as females vs those living as males - Langevin, R.; Paitich, D.; Steiner, B. (Archives of Sexual Behavior, 1977)
The clinical profiles of 5 male groups (totaling 107 Ss with a mean age of 27.5 yrs) were compared: transsexuals who lived as females (FEM), those who lived as males (MAL), homosexual patients (HOP), homosexual controls (HOC), and heterosexual controls (CON). The MAL group showed psychotic features on the MMPI and a greater frequency of suicide attempts than the other groups. Their sexual behavior was incongruous in that they have had substantial sexual contact with men but less often desired sexual contact with men. They also less often desired to handle the penis of an adult man or to kiss him on the lips. They were more likely to find handling another's penis disgusting; however, they showed considerable involvement of their penis in sex relations with men. The FEM group, in contrast, had MMPI profiles suggestive of character disorders and tended to engage in antisocial behavior. Both the MAL and FEM groups were similar in MMPI and 16 PF 'femininity' score patterns. The HOP group showed overall similarity to the MAL group but was not as pathological. The HOC and CON groups were similar in being normal but their sexual behavior differed, as expected. The paradoxical behavior of the MAL group is discussed, as well as the parallel of the FEM group's behavior to that of criminals. (15 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: clinical profiles; transsexuals living as females vs males vs homosexual patients vs homosexual & heterosexual controls; Adaptation, Psychological; Disorders of Sex Development; Educational Status; Family Characteristics; Homosexuality; Humans; Intelligence; Life Style; Male; Parent-Child Relations; Personality Inventory; Psychological Tests; Transsexualism; Homosexuality; Patient History; Psychosexual Behavior; Transsexualism

Training crisis intervention specialists and peer group counselors as therapeutic agents in the gay community - Enright, Michael F.; Parsons, Bruce V. (Community Mental Health Journal, 1976)
Describes the development of a training program to provide unique services to homosexuals in crisis. The focus of the program is on the utilization of gay nonprofessionals as therapeutic agents in specific crisis situations and the development of a follow-up program to prevent future crises. Emphasis is placed on many aspects of the social milieu to provide comprehensive community intervention. (15 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: paraprofessional training program; crisis intervention & peer group counseling in gay community; homosexual nonprofessionals; Communication; Community Mental Health Services; Counseling; Crisis Intervention; Curriculum; Educational Status; Emergency Services, Psychiatric; Homosexuality; Humans; Male; Peer Group; Suicide; Utah; Community Mental Health; Counseling; Crisis Intervention; Homosexuality; Paraprofessional Education; Paraprofessional Personnel; Peer Relations

AIDS: A guide to suicide assessment - Hall, Joanne M.; Stevens, Patricia E. (Archives of Psychiatric Nursing, 1988)
Suicide is a common phenomenon in people with AIDS. The concept of stigma most appropriately provides the framework for suicide assessment because gay and bisexual males, iv drug users, Blacks, and Latinos are overrepresented among AIDS cases. The course of HIV illness and the psychosocial dynamics inherent in the experience of AIDS are described as they potentiate suicidality. It is concluded that direct inquiry, a broad perspective, and skillful synthesis of data is needed to assess suicide potential in HIV infected clients. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2018 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: role of social stigma; suicide; persons with AIDS; AIDS-Related Complex; Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome; Adult; Depression; Homosexuality; Humans; Male; Prejudice; Right to Die; Substance-Related Disorders; Suicide; AIDS; Psychosocial Factors; Stigma; Suicide

Youthful male homosexuality: Homosexual experience and the process of developing homosexual identity in males aged 16 to 22 years - Roesler, Thomas; Deisher, Robert W. (JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association, 1972)
Interviews with 60 16-22 yr. old young men who had had at least 1 homosexual experience to orgasm revealed that certain significant events over a period of time usually preceded the S's self-designation, 'I am a homosexual.' These events include (a) early sex play (whether pre- or postpuberty) the S recalled as homosexual in nature; (b) actually seeking persons for homosexual contact (as adolescents); and (c) 'coming out' (participating in the gay world). 4 yr. separated the mean ages of 1st homosexual experience to orgasm and self-designation as a homosexual. This period was, for many, one of extreme emotional turmoil. Of all Ss, 48% had visited a psychiatrist and 31% had made what the Ss considered to be a significant suicide attempt. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: development of homosexual identity; 1st experience to self-designation; 16-22 yr. old males; Adolescent; Adult; Age Factors; Counseling; Homosexuality; Humans; Identification (Psychology); Interview, Psychological; Male; Orgasm; Psychosexual Development; Psychotherapy; Homosexuality; Self-Concept; Self-Perception

Homosexuality, suicide, and parasuicide in Australia - Buhrich, Neil; Loke, Carlson (Journal of Homosexuality, 1988)
Presents data on the incidence of completed and attempted suicides among homosexuals in Australia. Risk factors, terminology, demographic characteristics, parasuicide among female homosexuals, and management of parasuicide cases are described. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: incidence of completed & attempted suicides; homosexual males & females; Australia; Australia; Homosexuality; Humans; Male; Self-Injurious Behavior; Suicide; Suicide, Attempted; Attempted Suicide; Homosexuality; Lesbianism; Suicide

Intersex: A sad postscript - Alderson, Julie (The Psychologist, 2004)
Notes, in relation to the articles on the psychological aspects of intersex in the August special issue, that two contributors referred to David Reimer, the person more widely known as the psychologist John Money's 'Case of John/Joan', and his present gender role. It is stated that before these articles were published, Mr. Reimer had committed suicide in May 2004. John Colapitano, the author of As Nature Made Him:The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl (see record [rid]2000-07113-000[/rid]), has posted a moving summary of Mr. Reimer's life and death on www.slate.msn.com/id/210l678. Colapitano points out that Mr. Reimer's death must be seen in the context of the whole of his life and not just his financial difficulties cited in much of the US press. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: intersexed individuals; psychological care; surgical interventions; sexual identity; Gender Identity; Hermaphroditism; Psychodynamics; Surgery; Intersex Conditions

Dual suicide in homosexuals - Swartzburg, Marshall; Schwartz, Arthur H.; Lieb, Julian; Slaby, Andrew E. (Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 1972)
Discusses the psychodynamics underlying dual suicides among homosexuals and presents a case study of 1 attempted dual suicide by 2 homosexual males. (19 ref.) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: psychodynamics; dual suicide; male homosexuals; case study; Adult; Family Characteristics; Homosexuality; Humans; Love; Male; Suicide; Attempted Suicide; Case Report; Male Homosexuality

Psychological and social consequences of HIV exposure: Homosexuals in Southern California - Kaisch, Kenneth; Anton-Culver, Hoda (Psychology & Health, 1989)
30 human immunodeficiency virus positive (HIV+) and 55 HIV negative homosexual males completed a biographical questionnaire, the IPAT Anxiety Scale Questionnaire, the IPAT Depression Scale, and a coping strategies inventory. HIV+ Ss showed considerable disorganization after learning of their status and had clinically high levels of anxiety and depression compared with normative samples. HIV+ Ss also reported pervasive changes in their sexual activity and experienced negative social and occupational consequences. 12 HIV+ Ss reported suicidal ideation and 1 HIV+ S reported a suicide attempt. The most frequently endorsed group of coping strategies used by HIV+ Ss reflected an attitude of positive thinking with efforts to learn more about the infection. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: levels of psychological distress & coping strategies & behaviors & changes in social activities; HIV positive vs negative homosexual males; AIDS; Coping Behavior; Distress; Male Homosexuality; Social Behavior; At Risk Populations; Consequence

Hospitalized suicidal adolescents: Two generations - Schneer, Henry I.; Perlstein, Abraham; Brozovsky, Morris (Journal of the American Academy of Child Psychiatry, 1975)
Between 1960 and 1970 the rate of hospital admissions for suicidal behavior among adolescents of lower socioeconomic status in Brooklyn doubled. Among the 2nd-generation ethnic subgroups the Black girls, the Puerto Rican boys, and the White boys all showed a statistically significant increase in rate of admissions for suicidal behavior. These adolescents tended to be more malignantly disturbed emotionally, drug-abusing, truant, and suicidally repetitious than the 1st-generation group. Under the survey method employed, extrinsic sociological factors could not be isolated from intrinsic psychodynamic factors which interact during adolescence to provoke suicidal behavior. (22 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: rate of hospital admissions for suicidal behavior across 2 generations; black & white & Puerto Rican adolescents; Adolescent; Child; Ethnic Groups; Family Characteristics; Female; Homosexuality; Hospitalization; Humans; Male; Mental Disorders; New York City; Sex Factors; Social Change; Social Class; Suicide, Attempted; Attempted Suicide; Blacks; Hospital Admission; Racial and Ethnic Groups; Whites

Transsexual problem - Crenshaw, Theresa L. (Medical Aspects of Human Sexuality, 1985)
Presents a case study of a 30-yr-old transsexual female patient (formerly male) with depression and suicidal intentions. History, evaluation, treatment, and implications for family practice are discussed. (0 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: history & testosterone therapy; 30 yr old transsexual female with depression & suicidal intentions; case report; Depression (Emotion); Drug Therapy; Suicide; Testosterone; Transsexualism; Case Report

Psychotherapy of a suicidal boy: Dynamics and interventions - Hochberg, Ruth (Psychotherapy: Theory, Research & Practice, 1977)
This paper illustrates the psychodynamics which contributed to the development of a 'suicidal personality' in an adolescent boy and the critical junctures in treatment. It shows how conflict over dependency and power, unresolved oedipal issues, and introjects 'not to exist' can give rise to depression and feeling of worthlessness and despair. Lack of coping skills intensifies the 'suicide potential'. Psychotherapeutic intervention started with a 'no-suicide' contract engaging the patient from the very beginning in self-help. After two weeks, the patient reported that he could no longer keep the contract and was immediately hospitalized. Therapy focused on two major but related themes; dependency and resolution of the oedipal conflict. When safety permitted, he was dismissed from the hospital, as the therapist feared that the protective environment of the hospital might foster more dependency and deter the development of independent, assertive behavior. As termination neared, the patient finally revealed the homosexual experience which preceded his suicide attempt. Therapy subsequently exposed long-standing inhibitions in masculine assertiveness, longing for a love object that would increase his masculinity, (and allay his homosexual anxiety) and intense fear of physical harm. In this case, as with most, tact and the correct timing and dosage of interpretations was crucial to the success of the treatment. There was strong temptation to clarify, confront, or interpret prematurely before the patient's productions had verified the therapist's speculations. Such activity would have accomplished little, if anything, and could have heightened the danger to the patient. Psychotherapy is a process, and though growth and development may be slow or come in spurts, it cannot be hurried. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: psychodynamics; suicidal personality; psychotherapy; dependency; power; oedipal issues; depression; worthlessness; despair; no-suicide contract; Psychodynamics; Psychotherapeutic Techniques; Psychotherapy; Suicidal Ideation; Behavior Contracting; Dependency (Personality); Major Depression; Oedipal Complex; Suicide; Interpersonal Control

Psychosocial differences between Dutch male and female transsexuals - Verschoor, A. M.; Poortinga, J. (Archives of Sexual Behavior, 1988)
Compared the psychosocial characteristics of 168 male and 55 female Dutch transsexuals in hormonal treatment. Results indicate that females more frequently had displayed cross-gender behavior during childhood than males; that they cross-dressed more often; and that, contrary to males, none had married in her anatomical sex. Females also applied for surgical gender reassignment at an earlier age than did males. More of the females lived in a stable relationship with a partner of their own biological sex. Relations with the parental home were better for females than for males, and the former were more often employed or enrolled in a study. Although no significant differences existed with respect to psychiatric treatment, substance abuse, or attempted suicides, both groups were prone to psychological disturbances. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: psychosocial characteristics & cross gender behavior; transsexual males vs females in hormonal treatment; Netherlands; Adult; Female; Gender Identity; Humans; Identification (Psychology); Male; Netherlands; Psychosexual Development; Self Concept; Sexual Behavior; Transsexualism; Human Sex Differences; Psychosexual Behavior; Psychosocial Factors; Transsexualism

Homosexuality: IV Psychiatric disorders and disability in the female homosexual - Saghir, Marcel T.; Robins, Eli; Walbran, Bonnie; Gentry, Kathye A. (The American Journal of Psychiatry, 1970)
Ss were 57 homosexual women and 43 single heterosexual controls. There were slightly more clinically significant changes and disability in the lives of the homosexual women as compared with the heterosexual women. The chief differences were in the increased prevalence of alcoholism and of attempted suicide. Despite these difficulties, the homosexual women were able to achieve, adapt, and be productive citizens. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: psychiatric disorders & disability; female homosexuals; Achievement; Adult; Affective Symptoms; Alcoholism; Anxiety; Drinking Behavior; Educational Status; Employment; Family; Female; Homosexuality; Humans; Interpersonal Relations; Interview, Psychological; Mental Disorders; Middle Aged; Sexual Behavior; Social Adjustment; Substance-Related Disorders; Suicide; Adjustment; Alcoholism; Homosexuality; Mental Disorders; Suicide

A case of manifest homosexuality with acute paranoid trends accompanied by depression and suicidal tendencies - Bhatia, R. P. (Samiksa, 1974)
Presents a case study of a 27-yr-old man with manifest homosexuality with acute paranoid trends accompanied by depression and suicidal tendencies with its psychoanalytical psychotherapy treatment. The psychoanalytic process and the doctor-patient relationship are discussed in relation to inherent problems of guilt. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: psychoanalytic psychotherapy treatment; manifest homosexuality with acute paranoid trends & depression & suicidal tendencies; 27 yr old male; Case Report; Depression (Emotion); Male Homosexuality; Paranoia (Psychosis); Suicide; Psychoanalysis; Psychotherapeutic Processes

Psychological adjustment and life style of single lesbians and single heterosexual women - Oberstone, Andrea K.; Sukoneck, Harriet (Psychology of Women Quarterly, 1976)
Administered the MMPI and an author-designed structured interview questionnaire to 50 White single homosexually and heterosexually oriented 20–45 yr old females to investigate the Ss' psychological adjustment and current life styles. Groups were equivalent on age, marital status, educational and occupational levels, and other demographic variables. Results show that groups did not differ in total psychological adjustment as measured by scale scores on the MMPI nor as evaluated by blind expert raters using the MMPI profiles. Groups differed significantly on the Masculinity-Femininity (Mf) scale and the Hypomania (Ma) scale. On the interview questionnaire, which included current living situations, roles and relationships, behavior and friendship patterns, and drinking, drug, and suicidal behavior, no major differences between groups were found. Differences between groups were found only on items directly related to sexual orientation. The findings clarify some of the myths and misconceptions about lesbianism. (22 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: psychological adjustment & current life styles; White single homosexually- & heterosexually-oriented 20–45 yr old females; Heterosexuality; Human Females; Lesbianism; Lifestyle; Single Persons; Emotional Adjustment; Social Adjustment

Sodomy in enlightenment Prussia: From execution to suicide - Steakley, James D. (Journal of Homosexuality, 1988)
Describes prosecution of sodomites in 18th-century Prussia, speculation regarding the homosexual practices of Frederick II, and the changing situation for homosexuals during the flowering of the Enlightenment in Berlin. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: prosecution for & practice of sodomy; 18th century; Prussia; Capital Punishment; Germany; History, 18th Century; Homosexuality; Humans; Suicide; Criminal Conviction; History; Male Homosexuality; Legal Processes

Psychiatric screening for transsexual surgery - Stone, Charles B. (Psychosomatics: Journal of Consultation and Liaison Psychiatry, 1977)
Screened 60 patients 23–32 yrs old and accepted 13 for surgery, most of whom had had many arrests and convictions, especially for prostitution. They dressed in a dramatically seductive fashion, passed convincingly as women, and seemed to have fully adopted the feminine gender role late in adolescence. None had fathered children or were married as a male. All denied being homosexuals and stated their long belief in their femininity. The typical patient earned his living either as a beautician, a hairdresser, or a prostitute. An important criterion used in selecting for surgery was that the patient must have lived full time as a woman for at least 5 yrs. Most had plastic surgical procedures for breast augmentation and facial contour change. Some had had castration. After surgery none of the patients expressed regret about loss of penis and testes and the acquisition of a new vagina. No evidence of depression or suicidal tendencies appeared. The most frequent surgical complication was the need for a 2nd operation to deepen the vagina. Some patients became reconciled with their families, especially with fathers. The patients did not undergo personality changes as a result of pelvic surgery. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: psychiatric screening for & outcome of transsexual surgery; 23–32 yr old transsexuals; Attitude; Father-Child Relations; Gender Identity; Humans; Identification (Psychology); Life Style; Male; Mother-Child Relations; Personality; Prostitution; Time Factors; Transsexualism; Postsurgical Complications; Psychodiagnosis; Surgery; Transsexualism

Male transsexuals: A long-term follow-up after sex reassignment operations - Sturup, G. K. (Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 1976)
Discusses the case histories of 10 transsexuals, operated up to 19 yrs before the follow-up. Six of these presented typical syndromes. In some of the early cases, reluctance on the part of therapists to adopt an active therapy was great. Two Ss had died before the follow-up investigation, but both had reported satisfaction with the treatment to their therapists. One case--happily married--had emigrated with her husband. Three others confirmed happiness and satisfaction wih their female way of life and are living in reasonably good social circumstances. Three cases are not typical. A promiscuous massive sexual activity exhibited by these patients had made it difficult to endorse a surgical solution to their wish to obtain sex reassignment. At follow-up all 3 were very satisfied with their female role. After several years in their new sex role, 2 of these were still promiscuous. The last case presents unusually complicated sex role problems. He continues to live as a male, but he still insists, 19 yrs after castration, that the operation saved his life. In spite of his handicap, he claims to be satisfied. None of the operated cases committed suicide, but 1 case, not operated but living as a female, developed a paranoid reaction resulting in suicide. (15 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: male transsexualism; case histories of 10 patients; Adult; Aged; Castration; Follow-Up Studies; Gender Identity; Humans; Male; Middle Aged; Psychotic Disorders; Social Adjustment; Transsexualism; Case Report; Transsexualism

Maternal abandonment threats, mind–body relations and suicidal wishes - Eigen, Michael (Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis, 1981)
Explores ways in which maternal abandonment gestures, especially punitive ones, threaten the integrity of mental and physical self relations and are frequently associated with suicidal urges. Three case studies are presented as illustration. (14 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: maternal abandonment threat; mental & physical self relations & suicidal urges; 3 case reports; Adult; Body Image; Ego; Fantasy; Female; Homosexuality; Humans; Male; Maternal Behavior; Phobic Disorders; Punishment; Suicide; Mother Child Relations; Separation Anxiety; Suicide

Homicide followed by suicide: Los Angeles, 1970–1979 - Allen, Nancy H. (Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 1983)
Presents findings from a study of 104 homicide-followed-by-suicide events in Los Angeles from 1970 to 1979 and compares them to the findings of D. J. West (1966) for Wales and England from 1954 to 1961. Data were obtained in the present study from all homicide cases in which the offenders committed suicide up to 3 mo later. Present data support West's assertion that murder–suicide rates are much higher in countries other than the US. The effects of the following variables on these findings are discussed: age, ethnicity, sex distribution of both offenders and victims, relationship between them, methods by which victims were killed, alcohol content in victims and offenders, suicide notes, depression, and physical illness. General trends indicate that typical offenders were older males, and the majority of cases involved marriage or other dyadic relationships free from criminal associations. Despair, rather than hostility, seemed to be a common motive. Two types of murder–suicide cases are described: those in which a couple displays an inability to live together productively (the majority of cases) and those in which individuals, often the elderly, face painful physical illnesses compounded by depression or financial stress. (5 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: epidemiologic characteristics of homicide-followed-by-suicide events in Los Angeles; 1970–79; longitudinal study & comparison with findings of D. J. West's study; Adolescent; Adult; Aged; California; Cross-Cultural Comparison; Depression; Disease; Ethanol; Family; Female; Great Britain; Homicide; Homosexuality; Humans; Male; Middle Aged; Sex Factors; Suicide; Wounds, Gunshot; Homicide; Suicide; Epidemiology; Longitudinal Studies

Bereavement counseling for gay individuals - Siegal, Reva L.; Hoefer, David D. (American Journal of Psychotherapy, 1981)
Discusses the problems that confront bereaved gay individuals, e.g., the lack of societal mechanisms, sanctions, and resources to aid in the bereavement process. Case material is used to document and delineate these and other special considerations. Therapeutic recommendations for working with bereaved gay patients are presented. (4 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: bereavement counseling; gay patients; Adaptation, Psychological; Adult; Attitude to Death; Counseling; Female; Grief; Guilt; Homosexuality; Humans; Male; Middle Aged; Psychotherapy; Suicide; Grief; Homosexuality; Psychotherapeutic Counseling

Homosexuality: III Psychiatric disorders and disability in the male homosexual - Saghir, Marcel T.; Robins, Eli; Walbran, Bonnie; Gentry, Kathye A. (The American Journal of Psychiatry, 1970)
Little difference was demonstrated in the prevalence of psychopathology among a group of 35 unmarried men. There was, however, slightly more disability and more clinically significant change in the lives of the homosexual men. Despite the slight increase in disability and the changes in their lives, the homosexual men functioned well. (26 ref.) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: psychiatric disorders & disability; male homosexuals; Adaptation, Psychological; Adult; Affective Symptoms; Age Factors; Aged; Alcoholism; Depression; Educational Status; Family Characteristics; Homosexuality; Humans; Interview, Psychological; Male; Marriage; Mental Disorders; Middle Aged; Neurotic Disorders; Occupations; Paraphilic Disorders; Parents; Personality Disorders; Religion; Sex Factors; Socioeconomic Factors; Substance-Related Disorders; Suicide; Homosexuality; Mental Disorders; Psychopathology

Sex reassignment: Male to female to male - Money, John; Wolff, George (Archives of Sexual Behavior, 1973)
Describes the case of a male patient who planned and achieved sex-reassignment surgery which subsequently proved to have been performed prematurely. Postoperatively, the patient experienced a sudden change of conviction and was confronted with the realization that he could not live as a woman. Threatened by suicide, he finally found a resolution to his dilemma by reverting to the male role. Similar mistakes in the future can be avoided if patients are required to rehabilitate in the new gender role prior to the irreversible step of genital surgery. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: premature sex-reassignment surgery; postoperative adjustment by reverting to male role; male transvestite; Adaptation, Psychological; Adult; Diagnosis, Differential; Disorders of Sex Development; Female; Homosexuality; Humans; Male; Suicide, Attempted; Transsexualism; Transvestism; Case Report; Sex Roles; Surgery; Transvestism

Morita therapy and suicide prevention - Reynolds, David K. (Crisis: The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention, 1984)
Describes the method of therapy developed by Morita, a Japanese professor of psychiatry in the 1920's, which has continued to be practiced in Japan and has been adapted for Western clients as well. Morita's philosophy proposes that emotions, including those of a suicidal nature, are uncontrollable by mental effort alone, but they can be influenced through purposefully directed behavior. Without ignoring, denying, or attempting to suppress feelings, an individual can build life on behavior and on living with attention to each moment's activity. The case of a male client, who had self-destructive feelings attached to a homosexual panic, illustrates how the therapist works together with the patient not to erase self-destructive feelings, but to outgrow them. (German & French abstracts) (8 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: Morita therapy; suicide prevention; Suicide Prevention; Treatment

Attitudes toward sex transformation procedures - Green, Richard; Stoller, Robert J.; MacAndrew, Craig (Archives of General Psychiatry, 1966)
Moral, ethical, legal, and social problems are raised by a patient's request for surgical and hormonal sex conversion. A questionnaire was constructed to document attitudes held by psychiatrists, urologists and gynecologists, male transvestites, and male and female homosexuals. Results indicate that differences in attitudes do exist between the medical disciplines. A majority of the psychiatrists would not approve a patient's request, even if the refusal might lead to the patient's suicide. Psychiatrists were more willing to approve the request than were surgeons willing to perform the operation. The sexually deviate groups were considerably more favorable to the sex transformation requests although there were some differences between the subgroups. (18 ref.) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: sex transformation; psychiatrist attitudes; urologists attitudes; gynecologist attitudes; male homosexuals; female homosexuals; Gynecologists; Health Personnel Attitudes; Homosexuality; Psychiatrists; Gender Reassignment

Septal stimulation for the initiation of heterosexual behavior in a homosexual male - Moan, Charles E.; Heath, Robert G. (Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 1972)
A 24-yr-old male, overt homosexual, repeatedly hospitalized for chronic suicidal depression and found to have temporal lobe epilepsy, underwent a program of septal stimulation which resulted in subjectively reported and behaviorally observed states of pleasure, euphoria, relaxation, confidence, and sexual motivation. These responses were subsequently used to initiate heterosexual arousal and behavior. Implications for the treatment of some psychological disorders are discussed. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2017 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: septal stimulation; pleasure & euphoria & relaxation & confidence & sexual motivation arousal; 24 yr. old overt male homosexual with temporal lobe epilepsy; Brain Stimulation; Epilepsy; Homosexuality; Physiological Arousal; Psychosexual Behavior

Suicidal and depressive feelings among college students - Murray, D. C. (Psychological Reports, 1973)
Administered a questionnaire concerning suicidal and depressive thoughts to 78 undergraduates. Over 40% had thought of killing themselves and less than 10% denied at least having felt deeply discouraged and unhappy. Religion was related to the presence of suicidal thoughts, and sex to reported frequency of such thoughts. Ss were most likely to tell a friend of such thoughts, and, at a significant level, the friend was of the same sex as the respondent. Scores on locus of control, social desirability, and test anxiety measures were unrelated to suicidal and depressive thoughts. Results are compared with findings from other studies. The utility of reported depressive and suicidal thoughts as predictors of suicidal behavior is questioned. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: suicidal & depressive feelings; college students; Adolescent; Adult; Depression; Female; Humans; Male; Personality; Self Concept; Students; Suicide; Surveys and Questionnaires; United States; Universities; College Students; Depression (Emotion); Suicide

A syndrome of serious suicidal intent - Stone, Alan A. (Archives of General Psychiatry, 1960)
Prediction is unreliable though important. 7 cases of serious suicidal attempts could not identify with their fathers, had been attached to their mothers, and had consequent difficulties in masculine identification. Suicide was attempted when they did not succeed in 'saving' their promiscuous wives. It represents both a masculine assertion and a passive masochistic gratification. The syndrome consists of: '(1) An obsessive compulsive character with latent passive homosexual features; (2) possible symptomatic alcoholism; (3) a history of a relatively poor relationship with father; (4) an interest in a sexually discredited woman… [jealousy of] a paranoid quality; (5) a threatened rupture with or rejection by this woman.' (35 ref.) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: SUICIDE; PRODROMAL FACTORS IN; OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE REACTION; IN SUICIDE; NEUROSIS; & SUICIDE; MASCULINITY-FEMININITY; IDENTIFICATION & SUICIDE; PSYCHOSES; No terms assigned

Student suicide: Death as a life style - Hendin, Herbert (Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 1975)
Studied the psychology of college students who are seriously suicidal. 50 college students who had made suicide attempts were studied in detail over a 5-yr period. Short-term therapy was administered in most cases and long-term therapy in some. Psychological tests (WAIS, Rorschach, Thematic Apperception Test, Sentence Completion Test, figure drawing, and word association) were performed and used as an independent check on the data derived from the interviews. Results indicate the ways in which death had become a way of life for these students-an integral, ongoing part of their adaptation. The origin of this adaptation is traced in a family relationship that the students perceived as requiring their emotional extinction. These students were tied to their parents in a kind of death knot and had become overtly suicidal when life-coming to college, graduating, becoming seriously involved with another person-threatened to unravel this knot. 7 case reports are included. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: origin & adaptation of death as life style; suicidal college students; Adaptation, Psychological; Adolescent; Adult; Death; Female; Homosexuality; Humans; Interview, Psychological; Life Style; Male; Mental Disorders; New York City; Parent-Child Relations; Psychological Tests; Psychology; Psychotherapy; Students; Suicide; Attempted Suicide; College Students; Death and Dying; Personality Processes

Dogmatism and opinions about mental illness - Hood, Ralph W. (Psychological Reports, 1973)
Studied opinions about mental illness in 80 undergraduates classified by scores on the Rokeach Dogmatism Scale. 3 scales were developed to measure beliefs concerning homosexuality, suicide, and mental illness in general. Results indicate that highly dogmatic Ss held stereotypical beliefs with a greater intensity than low-dogmatic Ss. Both high- and low-dogmatic Ss did not differentiate between suicide and mental illness but did differentiate homosexuality from both these categories. On evaluative dimensions of a semantic differential, high-dogmatics evaluated homosexuals most negatively while low-dogmatics evaluated homosexuals least negatively. (33 ref.) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: dogmatism; opinions about mental illness & homosexuality & suicide; college students; Authoritarianism; Homosexuality; Mental Illness (Attitudes Toward); Sexual Attitudes; Suicide

Gay clients with AIDS: New challenges for hospice programs - Andersen, Heather; MacElveen-Hoehn, Penny (Hospice Journal, 1988)
Discusses the evolution of hospice care (HC) to meet the needs of gay men dying of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) and highlights the differences between traditional HC and the special issues inherent in the AIDS epidemic. A case example illustrates how HC teams work toward an 'appropriate death' for an AIDS victim. Issues confronting HC workers include the uncertain death trajectory, sudden death, definition of terminal, prognosis, decision to stop treatment, anticipatory guidance, and suicide. Some of the problems related to AIDS include pain control and symptom management, dementia, social and cultural factors, case management with people who live alone, use of volunteers, spiritual care, support for care providers, and bereavement. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: evolution of hospice care; needs satisfaction; gay males dying of AIDS; Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome; Adult; Homosexuality; Hospices; Humans; Male; Pain; Terminal Care; AIDS; Death and Dying; Hospice; Male Homosexuality; Need Satisfaction

Diagnosing homosexuality in a state department of mental health - Shachar, Sandra A.; Hagan, Brian J.; Evenson, Richard C. (Psychological Reports, 1983)
Examined the clinical records of 359 patients given a DSM-II diagnosis of Homosexuality/Sexual Orientation Disturbance between 1973 and 1979. Records were obtained from the Missouri Department of Mental Health automated data base. Demographic information and diagnostic trends were studied. In addition, the medical records of a 100-patient subsample were examined for clinical details such as the reason for referral, diagnostic history, and treatment prescribed or administered. Presenting complaints were then compared with actual diagnoses recorded. A steady decline in the use of homosexuality as a psychiatric diagnosis after 1973 was observed. Consistent with prior literature, the data base sample and clinical subsample were composed primarily of young, unmarried, White males. The chief presenting complaints of the subsample included depression or suicidal ideation (38%), sexual-orientation problems (17%), behavioral acting out (12%), and substance abuse (10%). In a number of cases, the admission of homosexual preference became the focus of 'the problem.' Yet, in nearly two-thirds of the subsample, sexual-orientation problems contributed significantly to the Ss' expressed reasons for seeking psychiatric assistance. (8 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: demographic characteristics & diagnostic trends & decline in diagnosis of homosexuality; mental health patients; 1973–79; Client Characteristics; Demographic Characteristics; Homosexuality; Psychodiagnosis; Psychodiagnostic Typologies

Unintentional shootings, highway crashes and acts of violence: A behavior paradigm - Waller, Julian A.; Whorton, Elbert B. (Accident Analysis and Prevention, 1973)
Compared characteristics of Vermont residents involved as shooters in unintentional shootings of all degrees of severity with those of residents whom they shot and residents of same sex and similar age, most of whom owned guns but who were not involved in shooting incidents. A total of 87 persons involved in 62 shooting incidents were studied. In comparison with the other 2 groups, the shooters more often were previously known to the police and had had arrests for violence, arrests involving alcohol, and crashes and traffic citations during the previous 3 yrs and during their lifetimes. A behavior model is suggested, commonly involving alcohol, in which poor control of aggressive tendencies results in intentional acts of violence and unintentional injury both on the highway and elsewhere. (French & German summaries) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2018 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: police arrests for violence & alcohol & traffic citations & accidents; Vermont residents as shooters in unintentional shootings; Alcohol Intoxication; Legal Arrest; Motor Traffic Accidents; Violence

Stereotypes of ageing - Praseedom, A.; Tube, P. A.; Vourdas, A.; Rafnar, B.; Woodfield, M. (The British Journal of Psychiatry, 1999)
Comments on the article by J. R. M. Copeland et al (see record [rid]1999-05151-007[/rid]) regarding depressive symptoms in older people and stereotypes of old age. The present authors argue that the study itself seems to preconceive the stereotype that 'older people are asexual,' which is contrary to the evidence that sex plays an important part in the lives of both men and women, at least until the mid-seventies, with little if any decline in enjoyment and satisfaction. A reply by the author is included. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2018 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: age & sex; risk factors for suicide attempts; rural adults; Spain; Aged; Depression; Female; Humans; Male; Sexual Behavior; Stereotyping; Community Mental Health; Epidemiology; Major Depression; Psychiatric Symptoms; Stereotyped Attitudes; Aged (Attitudes Toward); Sexuality

Femininity and reasons for living - Ellis, Jon B.; Range, Lillian M. (Educational & Psychological Research, 1988)
Investigated androgyny, masculinity, and femininity in relation to suicidal behavior. 100 undergraduates completed the Bem Sex-Role Inventory and the Reasons for Living Inventory (RFL) by M. Lineham et al (see record [rid]1983-20123-001[/rid]). Androgynous Ss, compared with nonandrogynous Ss, scored higher on the total RFL and on the following RFL subscales: Survival and Coping Beliefs, Responsibility to Family, Child Concerns, and Moral Objection. Analysis indicated that sex role, specifically femininity, but not masculinity or gender, had a significant effect on RFL scores. Findings suggest that the encouragement of femininity or androgyny may concurrently help develop adaptive characteristics that might prevent individuals from committing suicide. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: androgyny vs masculinity vs femininity; reasons for living; college students; implications for suicide prevention; Androgyny; Femininity; Masculinity; Suicide; Suicide Prevention

Peptic ulcer in childhood: Psychological factors - Christodoulou, G. N.; Gargoulas, A.; Papaloukas, A.; Marinopoulou, A.; Rabavilas, A. D. (Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, 1979)
30 6–16 yr old children (20 females and 10 males) with primary peptic ulcers, matched in pairs for age, sex, and socioeconomic standard with 30 ulcer-free controls, were administered the Rorschach test, the WISC, and psychiatric interviews. With 1 exception, all Ss suffered from duodenal ulcer; 3 males had personalities with psychopathic elements, 7 Ss had nicknames, 5 suffered from psychiatric disorders, 3 had attempted suicide, and 3 had had homosexual experiences. These parameters were negative in all controls. Ss also had lower mean IQ, worse scholastic adaptation, more anxious and overprotective parents, higher frequency of faddishness in food, and lower frequency of nail-biting than controls. Psychotraumatic events had preceded the onset of ulcer symptomatology in 11 cases. (14 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: mental disorders & attempted suicide & homosexual experiences & various problems; 6–16 yr olds with primary peptic ulcers; Adolescent; Child; Emotions; Father-Child Relations; Female; Humans; Intelligence; Interview, Psychological; Male; Mother-Child Relations; Peptic Ulcer; Personality Assessment; Psychophysiologic Disorders; Adjustment; Attempted Suicide; Gastrointestinal Ulcers; Homosexuality; Mental Disorders; Emotional Trauma

Suicide and AIDS - Frierson, Robert L.; Lippmann, Steven B. (Psychosomatics: Journal of Consultation and Liaison Psychiatry, 1988)
Describes the cases of a 23-yr-old man who attempted suicide after developing acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS), a 40-yr-old man who attempted suicide because he feared contracting AIDS, and a 54-yr-old mother who attempted suicide as part of a pact with her son who was dying with AIDS. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: attempted suicide & AIDS; 23 yr old male AIDS patient & 40 yr old homosexual male & 54 yr old mother of deceased AIDS patient; Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome; Adult; Fear; Female; Grief; Humans; Male; Middle Aged; Mothers; Suicide, Attempted; AIDS; Attempted Suicide; Male Homosexuality; Mothers

A girl's loyalty to her mother: A defence against oedipal guilt and an obstacle to becoming an adult - Laine, Aira (The Scandinavian Psychoanalytic Review, 1988)
Discusses the 10-yr analysis of a woman who began analysis at age 24 yrs. A student, she had been unable to carry on her studies for 2 yrs, was depressed and lonely, and had had thoughts of suicide. It is concluded that the S's development was very close to homosexual disturbance. Because of a 5-yr absence of the mother during the S's childhood, the oedipal situation became too great a threat. It was as though the oedipal wish had been fulfilled and gradual separation from the mother together with identification with her could not take place. Nullification of the mother was part of the struggle against homosexuality. Any success in life would have meant fulfillment of the oedipal wish, accompanied by an enormous sense of guilt. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: psychoanalysis; oedipal guilt & struggle against homosexuality; 24 yr old depressed female; case report; conference presentation; Lesbianism; Mother Child Relations; Oedipal Complex; Psychoanalysis; Case Report; Guilt

Risk-taking behavior, substance abuse disorders, and the acquired immune deficiency syndrome - Flavin, Daniel K.; Frances, Richard J. (Advances in Alcohol & Substance Abuse, 1987)
Reviews the literature on the phenomenon of risk taking and suicidal behavior, as well as problems in self-care in the setting of the acquired immune deficiency syndrome crisis and its association with the substance use disorders. Various examples of such behavior; the disinhibition phenomenon; impact on high risk groups; clinical needs of patients, their families, and staff; and effective intervention strategies are discussed. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: risk taking & disinhibition & suicidal behavior & lack of self care; relationship between substance abuse & AIDS; Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome; Alcoholism; Female; Homosexuality; Humans; Male; Risk-Taking; Sexual Behavior; Substance-Related Disorders; Suicide; Suicide, Attempted; AIDS; Drug Abuse; Health Behavior; Risk Taking; Suicide; Inhibition (Personality)

Male and female homosexuality: Natural history - Saghir, Marcel T.; Robins, Eli (Comprehensive Psychiatry, 1971)
Describes the natural history of the homosexual phenomenon, discussing its development and characteristics from early childhood into adult life. Data is analyzed from semistructured pretested interviews with 89 male and 57 female homosexuals and compared with information from 78 male and female heterosexual controls. The prehomosexual child displays behavioral characteristics more typical of the opposite than of his own biological sex. The homosexual male begins his sexual involvement in early adolescence while the female begins several years later. No significant difference was noted between heterosexuals and homosexuals in prevalence of neurotic disorders, but homosexuals had more depressions and suicide attempts and abused alcohol more often. The majority of homosexuals functioned adequately and were productive, with no significant disabilities. (18 ref.) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: development & characteristics from early childhood into adult life; homosexuality; male & female homosexuals vs. heterosexuals; Adolescent; Adult; Educational Status; Female; Homosexuality; Humans; Identification (Psychology); Male; Mental Disorders; Personality Development; Self Concept; Sexual Behavior; Socioeconomic Factors; Childhood Development; Etiology; Heterosexuality; Homosexuality; Human Males; Human Females; Psychological Development; Psychosocial Development

The case of El: A biography - Hooker, Evelyn (Journal of Projective Techniques, 1961)
The 2nd of a 3-part case presentation offers biographical data (drawn from recorded interviews, hospital records, the patient's productions, and posthospital contacts) on a 30-year-old male patient with a history of homosexual activities, alcoholism, and 6 suicide attempts. From Psyc Abstracts 36:01:3IK52H. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: CASE; SUICIDAL; HOMOSEXUAL; & ALCOHOLIC; CASE HISTORIES; Homosexuality; Humans; Medical Records; No terms assigned

Psychotherapy, responsibility, and homosexuality: Clinical examination of socially deviant behavior - Meredith, R. L.; Riester, Robert W. (Professional Psychology, 1980)
Focuses on professional and ethical issues in the treatment of individuals with problems of a socially deviant nature, specifically homosexuality. Public and professional attitudes toward homosexuality and an overview of the various models of deviancy and operational criteria (psychological test results and interview data) of psychopathology are reviewed, suggesting that (a) differences are readily identifiable between homosexual and heterosexual individuals and other comparison groups; (b) differences are not always deficits; (c) differences exist within the broad group of homosexuals; (d) some homosexuals evidence psychopathological personality traits; (e) some homosexuals are at greater risk with respect to problem drinking, drug abuse, and suicidal attempts; and (f) some homosexuals appear to be adjusting quite effectively. Professional responsibility at 3 levels (client, society, self) is discussed in detail. Guidelines are presented that may facilitate resolution of various professional and ethical issues in working with individuals whose problems are of a socially deviant nature. (42 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: professional responsibility & ethical issues; treatment of homosexuals & other individuals with socially deviant problems; clinical practitioner; Antisocial Behavior; Homosexuality; Professional Ethics; Psychotherapist Attitudes; Psychotherapists; Psychotherapy; Responsibility

Rape as instrumental violence: A study of youth offenders - Van Ness, Shela R. (Journal of Offender Counseling, Services & Rehabilitation, 1984)
Examined factors of violence contributing to 38 incidents of rape, based on questionnaire responses of 29 male rapists (aged 14–19 yrs) from 3 youth correctional facilities and 27 delinquent peers arrested for nonsexual offenses. Ss also completed the Inventory of Anger Communication. Findings reveal that all 38 of the incidents examined involved rapes acted out during the course of other crimes (burglary or robbery) or within a few hours of becoming angered by fights or arguments with others. Victims of the rapes were never those with whom Ss fought. Victims were generally less physically powerful than their assailants and were often coerced with knives or handguns. Premeditation of most incidents was suggested by the fact that most Ss knew ahead of time that the rape would occur that day. Some Ss had used alcohol or drugs to prepare for the rapes. Young women, teenage girls, and young boys were most often victims. Males comprised nearly one-third of all victims, although none of the Ss were homosexual. Because rape represented only 1 type of violence found in the careers of most Ss, it is suggested that correction of rape offenders needs to focus on reducing the pattern of violence learned over the years. (14 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: contribution of violence to incidents of rape; 14–19 yr olds arrested for rape vs nonsexual offenses; Male Delinquency; Rape; Violence

On Oedipus: III - Sinha, T. C. (Samiksa, 1974)
Reviews the mechanism of Oedipus fixation and symptom formation. Failure in married life, difficulty in relating to a marital partner, lack of initiative in daily life, extreme sense of guilt leading to suicidal ideas, frigidity, and the feeling of sinfulness are some of the reactive behaviors attributed to Oedipal factors. Because of fixation at the Oedipal level, heterosexuality is seen as 'dirty,' and is replaced by homosexual preferences, or by total repression of the sexual urge by both males and females. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: Oedipus fixation & symptom formation & reactive behaviors; homosexual preferences or total repression of sexual urge; Affective Disorders; Homosexuality; Oedipal Complex; Repression (Defense Mechanism); Symptoms

Factitious AIDS - Nickoloff, Steven E.; Neppe, Vernon M.; Ries, Richard K. (Psychosomatics: Journal of Consultation and Liaison Psychiatry, 1989)
Describes the case of a 33-yr-old homosexual man who presented with factitious acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS), which included both physical and psychological components. The patient is one in a new group of patients who claim a history of AIDS, with no associated physical findings. This phenomenon may be a result of the increase of AIDS in clinical practice and in the public consciousness. Psychotic and affective disordered patients in particular may incorporate material of popular interest into their delusions. The problem of the individual's right to confidentiality vs the cost and time to society of repeated presentations is discussed. Early recognition may be the most important factor in successful management. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: factitious AIDS; 33 yr old homosexual male; case report; Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome; Adult; Factitious Disorders; HIV Seropositivity; Homosexuality; Humans; Male; Suicide, Attempted; AIDS; Factitious Disorders; Male Homosexuality; Case Report

Transsexualism and the family: An interactional explanation - Jones, Susan L.; Tinker, Dorris (Journal of Family Therapy, 1982)
Presents descriptive data from home interviews with the families of origin of 14 21–31 yr old transsexual patients who presented to a gender identity clinic requesting surgery. Findings show that the relationship between family dynamics and transsexualism is interactional. Critical junctures are identified where the parents react to the child's gender dysphoric behavior and the child then reacts to the parents' reaction. Parents were not initially worried about the gender-inappropriate behavior in the child; thus, they did not discourage the behavior and at times encouraged it. At a later point they discouraged the behavior. The child then became more desperate in his/her attempts to pursue the transsexual feelings. The most intense symbolic action on the part of the transsexual-prone child was a suicide attempt. (4 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: family dynamics & parental reactions at various stages of child's gender dysphoria; 21–31 yr old transsexual patients requesting surgery; Family Relations; Gender Identity; Parental Attitudes; Transsexualism

A follow-up study of operated transsexual males - Sørensen, T. (Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 1981)
Presents results from a 25-yr follow-up study of 29 transsexual males who had obtained official status as females. Of the Ss, 6 were not interviewed, 3 had committed suicide, and 2 refused to take part in the follow-up. Data show that the operations were not resocializing, rather the contrary. The majority had no occupation at follow-up, and the number of Ss with disablement pensions had increased considerably. About 66% lived alone, and the majority of those with sexual relationships had problems with them. Both before and after surgery, the majority felt socially isolated. (32 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: surgical intervention; transsexual males; 25-yr followup; Age Factors; Follow-Up Studies; Humans; Interpersonal Relations; Male; Marriage; Psychological Theory; Sexual Behavior; Social Adjustment; Socioeconomic Factors; Transsexualism; Followup Studies; Human Males; Surgery; Transsexualism

Precipitating factors in acute homosexual panic (Kempf's Disease) with a case presentation - James, Robert E. (Quarterly Review of Psychiatry & Neurology, 1947)
The precipitating factors in the psychosis of this 22 year old male musician involved loss of the love object (his brother), feelings of ridicule by fellow workers, guilt feelings over his recently recognized homosexuality, an hallucinatory experience involving a suicidal attempt and prominent ideas of reference. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: HOMOSEXUALITY; ACUTE PANIC; CASE; CASES; HOMOSEXUAL; BEHAVIOR PROBLEMS; No terms assigned

16PF research into addiction: Meta-analysis and extension - Tuite, Daniel R.; Luiten, John W. (International Journal of the Addictions, 1986)
A meta-analysis of 34 addiction studies on the Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire (16PF) revealed ragged egos, guilt, distrust, frustration, alienation (G), vague identity, alarm, resentment (Q1), quasi-autism, scattered intellect, grandiosity (E), autonomy (Q2), infantilism (I), avoidance, and deviousness with aberrant scores on E, G, I, Q1, and Q2 discriminating addicts from suicidals and the chronically ill or unemployed. In a developmental study of 47 male (mean age 41.1 yrs) and 36 female (mean age 41.7 yrs) members of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), 9 types of addicts were identified. On the more stable 2nd-order 16PF factors, 43% were highest on Autonomous, 37% on Desperate, 16% on Tough Poise, and 4% on Extravert. Profiles differed more by sexual preference than by gender. Recidivism was highest among homosexual men (38%) and the desperate (25%). Only the 4th and 5th steps of the AA program seemed crucial to recovery. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: 16PF profile; Alcoholics Anonymous members; meta analysis; Adult; Alcoholics Anonymous; Alcoholism; Cattell Personality Factor Questionnaire; Female; Homosexuality; Humans; Male; Personality Inventory; Research; Sex Factors; Substance-Related Disorders; Alcoholics Anonymous; Alcoholism; Meta Analysis; Sixteen Personality Factors Questionnaire

Sexual erotic problems of juveniles revealed in psychiatric assistance by telephone: Early experience with a 'hot line' - Hadlik, J.; Vrzalova, E. (Psychiatrie, Neurologie und Medizinische Psychologie, 1969)
Favorable experience of a telephonic 'hot line' suicide prevention center in Brno is presented. Reported on are sexual problems which cause an acute emotional crisis, hopelessness, and a cry for help which, especially in juveniles, are indications of suicidal intentions. Men complained most of fears related to masturbation, fear of veneral disease, and tendencies toward homosexuality. Women feared frigidity as a consequence of anxieties, moral scruples, and masturbation. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: psychiatric assistance by telephone in suicide prevention center; sexual erotic problems & suicidal intentions of juveniles; Brno; Czechslovakia; Adolescent; Adult; Affective Symptoms; Communication; Counseling; Czechoslovakia; Female; Humans; Male; Sexual Behavior; Social Work, Psychiatric; Community Services; Countries; Homosexuality; Psychosexual Behavior; Suicide

Further considerations on suicide: (A criticism) - Wile, Ira S. (American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 1937)
Comments on an article by Gregory Zilboorg (see record [rid]1996-98510-004[/rid]). This interesting paper was discussed at the Annual Meeting of the American Orthopsychiatric Association. Only a fraction of the membership was in attendance, wherefore it appears desirable to present some of the criticisms raised in discussing the paper. In analyzing this excellently written document, one is immediately struck by various internal weaknesses which invalidate his conclusions. Dr. Zilboorg's statements should not go unchallenged. His paper reveals a lack of scientific methodology and manifests a lack of logic in the development of his theory. Conceding that the contribution of psychoanalysis to suicide, 'while more enlightening is still insufficient,' he does not hesitate to state dogmatically, 'psychoanalysis proceeded to show that not only has the act of suicide a definite unconscious meaning but also that the methods for carrying out the act of self destruction are revealing in that they frequently tell of the unconscious infantile content of the act.' Thus he does not hesitate to state that suicide by drowning points to an 'intrauterine phantasy,' by jumping out of the window, 'birth phantasy,' by shooting, 'certain aspects of unconscious homosexuality.' The mystery of life is complex and the bases for escaping from it are beyond our present knowledge. Conscious and unconscious elements, biological, psychological and social, merit continued investigation, thoughtful study and cautious interpretations. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: psychoanalysis; criticism; suicide; scientific methodology; unconscious meaning; Criticism; Psychoanalysis; Suicide; Experimental Methods; Unconscious (Personality Factor)

Sex differences and their effect upon cultural evaluations of methods of self-destruction - Marks, Alan (Omega: Journal of Death and Dying, 1977)
Studied 694 college students to examine sex differences in preferences for particular methods of self-destruction. Significant differences were found for 6 (drugs-poison, gas, firearms, explosives, drowning, and cutting) of 9 methods. Cultural evaluations of suicide methods, particularly firearms and drugs-poison, varied by sex and suicide. Women associated painlessness and efficiency with drugs-poison; men associated masculinity, efficiency, and being knowledgeable of the method with firearms. These findings support previous theories of the relationship between sex, sociocultural patterns, and methods of self-destruction. Implications for clinical evaluations of female attempters regarding their intent to suicide may be underestimated if females report they are considering drugs-poison. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: preference for method of self destruction; male vs female college students; implications for suicide prevention; Human Sex Differences; Suicide; Suicide Prevention; Toxins; Weapons; Sociocultural Factors

Heinrich Von Kleist—Prussian Junker and creative genius: a study in bisexuality - Wittels, Fritz (American Imago, 1954)
This short biography of the German poet and dramatist Heinrich Von Kleist (1777-1811) stresses his homosexual tendencies as influencing his decision to quit the Prussian army, determining the Schrecklichkeit and super masculinity of his literary work, and culminating in a murder-suicide pact. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: VON KLEIST; H.; POET; BISEXUALITY; HOMOSEXUALITY; VON KLEISH; AESTHETICS; No terms assigned

Two shootings - Palframan, David S. (The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry / La Revue canadienne de psychiatrie, 1979)
Presents the cases of a nonschizophrenic nonalcoholic man and of a classic paranoia associated with immigration, alcohol, homosexual fears, and schizophrenia; both patients were found 'not guilty by reason of insanity' in trials involving a shooting. It is suggested that greater familiarity with pathogenesis through hindsight will facilitate preventive action. (French abstract) (9 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: case reports of 2 men found 'not guilty by reason of insanity'; Adult; Delusions; Family; Forensic Psychiatry; Homicide; Humans; Male; Middle Aged; Paranoid Disorders; Adjudication; Guilt; Human Males; Mental Disorders

A comparison of three psychological testings of a transsexual - Hill, Evelyn F. (Journal of Personality Assessment, 1980)
A case of a transsexual is used to illustrate the use of psychological testing in assessing change over a period of 9 yrs. Evaluations were done 6 yrs before transsexual surgery, after surgery, and at the completion of psychotherapy. The initial tests (the Bender Gestalt Test, Draw-A-Person test, WAIS, Holtzman Inkblot Technique, and the TAT) were rife with morbid suicidal and pathological content. Psychotherapy in a residential setting was recommended and accepted. Psychological testing after surgery revealed identity conflicts, guilt, and underlying depression. The final evaluation revealed remarkable changes. Her ego was good. She was not handicapped by defenses. She was using her intelligence for systematic thinking. Her anxiety level was within normal limits, and concerns were realistic to her situation. Test protocols are included. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: psychological testing before & after sex change surgery & at completion of psychotherapy; assessment of intellectual & personality & psychological changes; transsexual; 9-yr longitudinal study; Adaptation, Psychological; Adult; Humans; Male; Psychological Tests; Psychotherapy; Transsexualism; Case Report; Personality Change; Psychotherapy; Surgery; Transsexualism; Intelligence Measures; Longitudinal Studies; Personality Measures

Klinefelter's syndrome and psychopathology: A case study of the combined effects of nature and nurture - Zastowny, Thomas R.; Lehman, Anthony F.; Dickerson, Fran (International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine, 1987)
Presents a case report of a 19-yr-old patient with Klinefelter's syndrome and genotype XXY, who was abused and ostracized by his family during childhood. Later, this pattern was repeated by a series of homosexual lovers. It is suggested that the separate and interactive effects between genetic and psychosocial risk factors may account for this S's subsequent psychosexual and personality disorders and reminds scholars of psychopathology of the importance of early detection and intervention. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: genetic & psychosocial risk factors; development of psychosexual & personality disorders; 19 yr old male with Klinefelter's syndrome & genotype XYY; case report; Adult; Family; Gender Identity; Homosexuality; Humans; Identification (Psychology); Klinefelter Syndrome; Life Style; Male; Psychosexual Development; Social Environment; Suicide, Attempted; Environment; Genetics; Klinefelters Syndrome; Personality Disorders; Psychosexual Behavior; Case Report

The deliberate self-harm syndrome - Pattison, E. Mansell; Kahan, Joel (The American Journal of Psychiatry, 1983)
Describes the clinical characteristics of the deliberate self-harm syndrome. Analysis of 56 published case reports of self-harm revealed a typical pattern of onset in late adolescence, multiple recurrent episodes, low lethality, harm deliberately inflicted upon the body, and extension of the behavior over many years. The 4 predominant psychological symptoms for this syndrome are despair, anxiety, anger, and cognitive constriction. Predisposing factors include lack of social support, homosexuality (in men), drug and alcohol abuse, and suicidal ideation (in women). It may be associated with depression and psychoses. Since the clinical characteristics of the deliberate self-harm syndrome differ substantially from those of other classes of self-destructive behavior, the authors propose that DSM-IV classify deliberate self-harm as a separate diagnostic syndrome. (50 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: onset & behavioral characteristics & psychological symptoms & predisposing factors; deliberate self harm syndrome; Adolescent; Adult; Age Factors; Aged; Child; Female; Homosexuality; Humans; Male; Manuals as Topic; Mental Disorders; Middle Aged; Recurrence; Self Mutilation; Substance-Related Disorders; Suicide; Syndrome; Onset (Disorders); Predisposition; Self-Mutilation; Symptoms

Review of Grief and AIDS - Gullickson, Terri (Contemporary Psychology, 1996)
Contributors from many nations explore a number of pertinent issues, from AIDS-related death and dying in New York's gay community to AIDS-related deaths of children, partners, and parents. Contributors also examine psychological aspects of grief in AIDS and HIV infection, suicide in patients with HIV infection and AIDS, psychiatric problems associated with grief, the social burden of grief, AIDS health care, living wills and ethical issues of allowing someone to die. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: grief; AIDS; death and dying; AIDS; Death and Dying; Grief

A longitudinal account of staff adaptation to AIDS patients on a psychiatric unit - Amchin, Jess; Polan, H. Jonathan (Hospital & Community Psychiatry, 1986)
Case vignettes illustrate how the staff of a voluntary acute-stay psychiatric unit progressed over a 2-yr period from having difficulty treating acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) patients within the usual therapeutic milieu to directly confronting the issues raised by the disease both among themselves and in the patient community. Patient and staff reactions to 3 White male homosexuals (aged 29–42 yrs) with AIDS and suicidal ideation, atypical psychosis, or hallucinations and delusions are described. It is suggested that the staff's ability to cope with AIDS patients may have strongly influenced the patient community's ability to cope and that clinical experience and educational programs were major contributors to the staff's adaptation. Recommendations for psychiatric staffs beginning to treat AIDS patients are offered. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: adjustment & therapeutic milieu; White homosexual male patients with AIDS & staff & other patients in psychiatric unit; longitudinal study; AIDS-Related Complex; Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome; Adult; Attitude of Health Personnel; Homosexuality; Humans; Male; Neurocognitive Disorders; Personnel, Hospital; Professional-Patient Relations; Psychiatric Department, Hospital; AIDS; Client Characteristics; Psychiatric Hospital Staff; Therapeutic Community; Therapeutic Processes; Coping Behavior; Longitudinal Studies; Psychiatric Patients

Suicide attempts and resuscitation dilemmas - Karlinsky, Harry; Taerk, Gary; Schwartz, Ken; Ennis, Jon; Rodin, Gary (General Hospital Psychiatry, 1988)
Argues that the conventional psychiatric opinion that suicide is a manifestation of psychiatric illness may not apply to circumstances in which suicide or the refusal of life-sustaining medical treatment results from the rational decisions of autonomous individuals. As medical technology advances, questions about the prolongation of life and the discontinuation of medical treatment have become commonplace in the medical setting. In this context, contradictions may exist between the principle of patient autonomy and physician responsibility. Discussed are the ethical and legal issues in the attempted suicides of a middle-aged gay man with acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) and a widower who was at an advanced age (80+ yrs). (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2018 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: ethical & legal issues; resuscitation efforts in cases of attempted suicide; middle aged male with AIDS & widower in his 80s; Attempted Suicide; Treatment Withholding; AIDS; Laws; Professional Ethics; Treatment

The social aspects of homosexuality - Bennet, E. A. (Medical Press, 1947)
Society today condemns homosexuality, particularly so in the male, seeing in it a danger to society both in the matter of seduction of youth and in that of race suicide. The homosexual is made to feel very definitely his social isolation. Society appears itself to ignore its own contribution to the making of homosexuals. In fact, knowledge of homosexuality is fragmentary and actually one is not in position to adopt an attitude of complacency or of wholesale condemnation. What is needed here is a sociological inquiry as to the facts in regard to homosexuality. We need to know the number of homosexuals in the British population, the forms and degrees of homosexuality, whether homosexuality is increased or modified by coeducation and the public school, the effect of homosexual proclivities or acts among adolescents, the frequency, forms and degrees of homosexuality in the female population. Our chief need is for facts on which to base our medical, educational, legal and ethical conceptions of the social problem of homosexuality. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: HOMOSEXUALITY; SOCIAL ASPECTS; BEHAVIOR PROBLEMS; No terms assigned

Partnership in transsexualism: I Paired and nonpaired groups - Huxley, P. J.; Kenna, J. C.; Brandon, S. B. (Archives of Sexual Behavior, 1981)
Examined the psychological and sociological differences between transsexuals who had been married or had cohabited for at least 6 mos with those who had not. 26 of the 55 male-to-female Ss had partners, as did 9 of the 17 female-to-male Ss. 14 Ss had been married, but the marriages of all but 6 male Ss had ended in divorce or separation. More of the paired group received psychiatrists' ratings of stable social adjustment. There was a tendency for the paired group to have a more successful employment history and to more often attempt to obtain employment in their adopted gender. There were no differences on a battery of tests including the Wechsler Bellevue and Progressive Matrices, nor did the groups differ in such variables as amount of social drift and self-confessed criminal behavior. Any differences between the 2 groups was best described in terms of social adjustment rather than background social factors, personality, or clinical differences. (10 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: psychological & sociological differences; transsexuals with vs without partners; Adult; Crime; Female; Gender Identity; Humans; Interpersonal Relations; Male; Marriage; Social Adjustment; Social Class; Suicide; Transsexualism; Cohabitation; Marriage; Personality Traits; Social Adjustment; Transsexualism

Women and self-injury - Barnes, Rosemary A. (International Journal of Women's Studies, 1985)
Compared 69 men (mean age 31.6 yrs) with 98 women (mean age 32.4 yrs) involved in self-harm incidents, who were individually interviewed using a structured questionnaire. Findings show that men showed more serious personality disorganization and severe social difficulties than women and that men injured themselves when they were highly suicidal, seriously disturbed, or both. The women injured themselves not only under these conditions but also under less extreme circumstances. Results indicate that women may injure themselves as a 'cry for help,' a dramatic expression of feeling, or an indirect way of controlling others, whereas men may be more likely to injure themselves as a step toward the instrumental goal of suicide. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: self harm incidents; male vs female adults; Human Sex Differences; Self-Destructive Behavior; Attempted Suicide; Human Females; Self-Inflicted Wounds

Can minorities be invisible: If not, why not? - Artz, Joan (The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse, 1976)
Presents evidence to support the claim that the health care/illness system alienates almost everyone but the White middle-class male. Minorities supposedly discriminated against by health care personnel include drug addicts, alcoholics, criminals, suicide attempters, aged persons, homosexuals, and welfare patients. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: alienation of minority groups by health care/illness system; Attitude of Health Personnel; Delivery of Health Care; Female; Gender Identity; Homosexuality; Humans; Male; Minority Groups; Self Concept; Substance-Related Disorders; Alienation; Health Care Delivery; Minority Groups; Race and Ethnic Discrimination

A note on homosexuality, crime and the newspapers - McHenry, F. A. (Journal of Criminal Psychopathology, 1941)
Considerations of good taste and the danger of having to stand suit for libel have forced newspapers to avoid mention of homosexuality as the reason for many of the crimes reported. The author illustrates that the homosexual basis behind cases of assault and battery, robbery, murder and suicide may, however, often be inferred from newspaper accounts of these crimes. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: CRIME; HOMOSEXUALITY; CRIME AND DELINQUENCY; FUNCTIONAL DISORDERS; No terms assigned

Suicide attempts and psychiatric diagnosis - Woodruff, Robert A.; Clayton, Paula J.; Guze, Samuel B. (Diseases of the Nervous System, 1972)
Used various environmental, social, family history, and diagnostic variables to investigate suicide attempts among 500 patients randomly selected from a psychiatric clinic. Of nearly 100 variables tested, 23 were statistically associated with suicide attempts among all Ss. Only 4, however, were associated with suicide attempts independent of the diagnoses of hysteria and homosexuality: younger age at interview, a history of psychiatric hospitalization, a family history of attempted suicide, and a history of mother being psychiatrically ill. Findings indicate the special association between suicide attempts and 2 disorders, hysteria and homosexuality. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: psychiatric diagnosis; Ss attempting suicide; Adult; Affective Symptoms; Antisocial Personality Disorder; Female; Homosexuality; Humans; Hysteria; Male; Mental Disorders; Suicide; Attempted Suicide; Psychodiagnosis

Brain purinergic activity linked with depressive symptomatology: Hypoxanthine and xanthine in CSF of patients with major depressive disorders - Ågren, Hans; Niklasson, Frank; Hällgren, Roger (Psychiatry Research, 1983)
Analyzed hypoxanthine and xanthine in the CSF of 70 patients (mean age 41.4 yrs) with major depressive disorders; 26 16–71 yr old nonpsychiatric patients served as a reference group. For patients, levels adjusted by ANCOVA to same sex, age, height, and weight were univariately and multivariately correlated with both depressive subdiagnoses and individual depressive symptoms. Results indicate that raw CSF levels in patients were significantly correlated with the 4 variables used in adjustment (for hypoxanthine, negatively with height; for xanthine, positively with age). It is suggested that both hypoxanthine and xanthine are linked with the expression of depressive symptomatology. Lower levels of hypoxanthine were associated with anger and suicidal tendencies, higher levels were related to memory disturbance. Lower xanthine levels characterized patients with subjective feelings of depression; patients with higher levels had poor appetites. (32 ref) (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: hypoxanthine & xanthine in CSF; depressed patients with mean age of 41.4 yrs; Adult; Affective Disorders, Psychotic; Age Factors; Bipolar Disorder; Body Height; Depressive Disorder; Female; Humans; Hypoxanthines; Male; Memory Disorders; Middle Aged; Suicide, Attempted; Xanthines; Cerebrospinal Fluid; Depression (Emotion); Drugs

Rorschach responses as an index of narcissism - Exner, John E. Jr. (Journal of Projective Techniques & Personality Assessment, 1969)
Investigated the uniqueness and interpretive meaningfulness of Rorschach reflection responses. In Part I, 80 Rorschach protocols were collected from overt homosexuals, character disorders, depressed patients recently suicidal, and a control group of undergraduates. Homosexuals and sociopaths gave significantly more reflection and C and CF responses than did either of the other 2 groups. In Part II, 2 groups of 40 Ss each were selected from a population of undergraduates and industrial workers on the basis of their score on a sentence completion test, especially devised to focus on the self. The high narcissism group gave a significantly greater number of reflection responses, pair type responses, and C and CF responses than did the low narcissism group. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: Rorschach reflection responses & degree of narcissism; Antisocial Personality Disorder; Depression; Homosexuality; Humans; Male; Narcissism; Personality Disorders; Rorschach Test; Neurosis; Personality Traits; Psychoanalytic Theory; Rorschach Test

Conditions predisposing to suicide: A review - Miles, Charles P. (Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 1977)
Data on causes of death among cohorts of various major disease entities or conditions suggest that a large majority of suicides are associated with a relatively small number of conditions. From an analysis of the available follow-up studies, it is estimated that the following percentages of affected individuals will die by suicide: (a) primary (endogenous) depression, 15%; (b) reactive (neurotic) depression, 15%; (c) alcoholism, 15%; (d) schizophrenia, 10%; (e) psychopathic personality, 5%; and (f) opiate addiction, 10% or more. Rough estimates of the number of suicides per year in the US attributable to each condition might be as follows (using low incidence figures): depression, 12,900; alcoholism, 6,900; schizophrenia, 3,800; psychopathy, 2,000; drug addiction, 900. (149 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: suicide rate; endogenous depressives vs neurotic depressives vs alcoholics vs schizophrenics vs Ss with psychopathic personality vs opiate addicts; Age Factors; Alcoholism; Antisocial Personality Disorder; Anxiety; Depression; Female; Homosexuality; Humans; Male; Neurotic Disorders; Prisoners; Schizophrenia; Sex Factors; Substance-Related Disorders; Suicide; Suicide, Attempted; Alcoholism; Antisocial Personality Disorder; Major Depression; Schizophrenia; Suicide; Drug Addiction; Endogenous Depression

Suicide and alcoholism - Frances, Richard J.; Franklin, John; Flavin, Daniel K. (The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse, 1987)
Suggests that alcohol, alcoholism, sadness, depression, suicide, and accidents are correlated and share some common intervening variables. More work is needed to establish causal relationships. Methodological problems have included clear definition of each category, sample selection, and accounting for demographic variables. It is noted that both alcoholism and suicide may be forms of escape from interpersonal problems and depression. Clinicians should be aware of alcoholism as a significant risk factor for suicide. Clinical examples are provided. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: alcohol use & alcoholism & depression; suicide; adults; AIDS-Related Complex; Adaptation, Psychological; Adult; Alcohol Drinking; Alcoholism; Depressive Disorder; Homosexuality; Humans; Male; Middle Aged; Risk Factors; Suicide; Alcohol Drinking Patterns; Alcoholism; At Risk Populations; Depression (Emotion); Suicide

A study of the problem of suicide - Pollack, B. (Psychiatric Quarterly, 1938)
Among the patients in a state hospital 17 successful and 34 unsuccessful suicide cases were studied with respect to clinical symptoms. Some defect of development and instability of mood was found in most cases. Difficulty in sexual adjustment was prevalent, unresolved Oedipus and homosexual situations being common findings. Delusions of grandeur were numerous. More male patients than female attempted suicide, and more of Roman Catholic than of other religious faith. Most of the unsuccessful attempts occurred among women, and were not repeated. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: SUICIDE; PSYCHOSIS; SUICIDE IN; FUNCTIONAL DISORDERS; No terms assigned

Increasingly Ruth: Toward understanding sex reassignment - Levine, Stephen B.; Shumaker, Ruth E. (Archives of Sexual Behavior, 1983)
Presents accounts of a 44-yr-old male's search for a comfortable gender identity from both the clinician's and patient's perspectives. The juxtaposition of these 2 perspectives illustrates many of the dilemmas inherent in the therapy of gender dysphoria. The patient underwent sex reassignment surgery in 1976, 1 yr after the assumption of a full-time female gender role. Six months after surgery, she made a serious suicide attempt. At age 50, she has now consolidated her feminine gender identity and has become a thoughtful, unusually honest, articulate person. The physician's 'objective' and the patient's retrospective perspectives provide evidence of the psychodynamic nature of transsexualism and the limitations of evaluation criteria for sex reassignment surgery. (13 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: account of search for comfortable gender identity from own & clinician's perspective; 44 yr old male who underwent sex reassignment surgery; Adult; Gender Identity; Humans; Identification (Psychology); Male; Social Adjustment; Transsexualism; Biographical Data; Transsexualism; Case Report; Surgery

Transsexualism and social attitudes - Jonas, Stanislaw P. (Psychiatria Clinica, 1976)
After a brief review of the literature, a case of a 31-yr-old male-to-female transsexual, with a 4-yr follow-up, is presented. The etiological factors and some social responses to this pathology are discussed. (21 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: etiological factors & social responses to transsexualism; 31 yr old male-to-female transsexual; 4-yr followup; Adult; Attitude to Health; Depression; Humans; Male; New York City; Self Mutilation; Suicide; Transsexualism; Case Report; Etiology; Followup Studies; Sexual Attitudes; Transsexualism

Same-sex rape of nonincarcerated men - Goyer, Peter F.; Eddleman, Henry C. (The American Journal of Psychiatry, 1984)
Presents clinical data on the psychological effects of same-sex rape on 13 Navy and Marine Corps males (aged 18–31 yrs). Most Ss reported subsequent mood disturbances such as fear, depression, and anger; disturbances in sleep and appetite; and difficulties in peer and interpersonal relationships. Half the Ss also reported sexual problems, most commonly related to concern about masculine identity. (11 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: same-sex rape; psychological effects; 18–31 yr old Navy & Marine Corps men; Adolescent; Adult; Affective Symptoms; Depressive Disorder; Gender Identity; Homosexuality; Humans; Interpersonal Relations; Male; Military Psychiatry; Peer Group; Psychophysiologic Disorders; Sex Offenses; Sexual Dysfunctions, Psychological; Suicide, Attempted; United States; Violence; Human Males; Marine Personnel; Navy Personnel; Rape

Violent sex and suicide - Danto, Bruce L. (Mental Health & Society, 1978)
Reviews early literature on the relationships between sexual problems, especially violent sexual ones, and suicide. The relationship between guilt feelings and suicide is viewed from the standpoint of current observations about sexually violent behavior and suicide. It is postulated that sexual perversions constitute a defensive means of coping with internal stress. Suicide is viewed as serving the same aim. Specific violent sexual behaviors such as sexual asphyxia and rape are discussed in terms of suicide. Transsexuality and transvestism are treated similarly. It is concluded that sexual violence and perversion in general are forms of self-destruction. (18 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: sexual violence & suicide; Child Rearing; Conflict (Psychology); Female; Gender Identity; Guilt; Humans; Male; Paraphilic Disorders; Rape; Sadism; Sexual Dysfunction, Physiological; Stress, Psychological; Suicide; Transsexualism; Transvestism; Violence; Paraphilias; Psychosexual Behavior; Sexual Sadism; Violence

Being in love and object loss - Bak, Robert C. (The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 1973)
Proposes that 'being in love' is often preceded by separation or by an important object loss-real, imaginary, or threatened-or by 1 of the numerous losses of object representations that lead to melancholia. It is noted that the love and suicide motif is an old one in history and literature. The lover gives up life to prove worthy of being loved, or to be united with the love object in death. It is also noted that the perfect compromise between love and death is sexual gratification. It is concluded that this token death in the orgastic experience is the main safeguard against the destruction of the self and the object world. (19 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2018 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: losses of object representations; love & suicide & melancholia; Aggression; Anxiety, Separation; Displacement (Psychology); Female; Grief; Homosexuality; Humans; Identification (Psychology); Interpersonal Relations; Libido; Literature, Modern; Love; Male; Narcissism; Object Attachment; Psychoanalytic Theory; Regression (Psychology); Schizophrenic Psychology; Self Concept; Suicide; Love; Psychoanalytic Interpretation; Sadness; Suicide

Black suicide - Hendin, Herbert (Archives of General Psychiatry, 1969)
Investigates occurrence and etiology of attempted suicide among 25 urban Negro patients through psychoanalytic interviewing techniques. Statistical background information, i.e., ratio of Negro and white suicide attempts, is included. 5 case studies are presented, illustrating the relationship of suicide, ciolence, and homosexuality to suicide. It is concluded that familial, business, and personal rejections and failures stemming from racial problems contribute to the suicide attempt. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: suicide occurrence & etiology; psychoanalytic interviews; urban Negro patients; Adult; African Americans; Age Factors; Anger; Culture; European Continental Ancestry Group; Female; Homicide; Homosexuality; Humans; Interview, Psychological; Male; New York City; Parent-Child Relations; Poverty; Self Concept; Social Conditions; Suicide; Urban Population; Violence; Etiology; Interviews; Psychoanalysis; Suicide; Urban Environments

Symposium on Current aspects of the problem of validity: Validity and methodology in projective tests - Farberow, N. L. (Journal of Projective Techniques, 1959)
An earlier study by Shneidman and Farberow revealed that the TAT would not differentiate between suicidal and nonsuicidal groups in terms of attitudes of the heroes in the stories. The failure is discussed with a specific suggestion to construct a set of pictures that would be more or less potent in stimulating responses along such continua as hostility, homosexuality, passivity, and suicidal potential. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: VALIDITY; OF PROJECTIVE TECHNIQUES; THEMATIC APPERCEPTION TEST; VALIDITY OF; & SUICIDE; SUICIDE; & TAT; PROJECTIVE TECHNIQUE; PERSONALITY MEASUREMENT; Humans; Projective Techniques; No terms assigned

Stavrogin's motivation: Love and suicide - Williams, John S. (Psychoanalytic Review, 1982)
Discusses the character of Stavrogin in Dostoevsky's The Possessed using a psychoanalytic paradigm. The sadistic behavior that Stavrogin displays toward women in his life is attributed, in part, to displaced aggression, arising from repressed hostility he felt for his mother. However, his identification with his mother also led to a latent homosexuality. Stavrogin's suicide is explained as arising from the warring libidinal and aggressive feelings toward his mother and the concomitant unconscious, self-destructive guilt they released. (11 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2017 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: psychoanalytic interpretation of Stavrogin in F. Dostoevsky's 'The Possessed'; Freudian Theory; Humans; Interpersonal Relations; Literature, Modern; Love; Male; Motivation; Psychoanalytic Interpretation; Suicide; USSR; Literature; Psychoanalytic Interpretation

Androgyny and the perception of television violence as perpetrated by males and females - Gunter, Barrie; Furnham, Adrian F. (Human Relations, 1985)
Examined 18 female and 22 male British viewers' perceptual judgments of 12 violent TV scenes from British crime detective series, American crime detective series, and science fiction series, in which either a male assailant attacked a female victim or a female assailant attacked a male victim. Violence took the form either of a shooting or a fist fight/physical struggle; episodes were balanced equally across male and female violence. Ss (primarily aged 15–55 yrs) rated each scene for the perceived seriousness of its content along 8 evaluative scales. Ss also completed the Bem Sex-Role Inventory (BSRI). Results show that male violence on a female victim was rated as more serious than female violence on a male victim, but only in the British crime dramas. In American and science-fiction contexts, the reverse was true. High masculinity scores on the BSRI were associated with the belief that male victimization by a female assailant was more violent and disturbing than female victimization by a male assailant, while high femininity scorers found female victimization more violent and disturbing. These relationships held following separate analysis for male respondents and female respondents and indicate the importance of self-perceived masculinity–femininity and actual sex as mediators of viewers' judgments about TV violence. (21 ref) (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: sex role attitudes; perception of victimization by male vs female in violent TV shows; males vs females; England; Androgyny; Sex Role Attitudes; Television Viewing; Victimization; Violence; Femininity; Masculinity

Reactions to the family of the suicide - Calhoun, Lawrence G.; Selby, James W.; Gribble, Candace M. (American Journal of Community Psychology, 1979)
61 male and 66 female adults, members of a large urban Protestant church, responded to a newspaper account of a suicide in which the following factors were systematically varied: sex of suicide, causal locus of suicide (internal or external), and whether the cause was prior or immediate to the suicide. Results indicate a slight tendency for males to be somewhat more socially accepting of the surviving spouse of a suicide. A significant interaction was found between sex of respondent and sex of suicide; Ss indicated that they would feel less tension in talking with the surviving family of a suicide of the same sex than with the family of a suicide of the opposite sex. (9 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: sex of respondent & sex of suicide & immediacy & internal vs external cause; perception of surviving family; Protestant church members; Adult; Attitude; Family; Female; Humans; Male; Middle Aged; Sex Factors; Social Adjustment; Suicide; Etiology; Family Members; Human Sex Differences; Social Perception; Suicide; Protestantism

An autobiographical legacy of Victor Tausk - Kanzer, Mark (The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 1971)
In 1913 Victor Tausk reported the dreams of a child patient. These are not only among the earliest of child analysis, but appear to be those of his 10-yr-old son. Tausk's report contains significant autobiographical data. Parallel pathology in father and son is revealed and illuminates the meaning of Tausk's subsequent suicide. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2018 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: child analysis; dreams & autobiographical data; V. Tausk; Anxiety, Castration; Austria; Dreams; Father-Child Relations; History, 20th Century; Homosexuality; Humans; Male; Masturbation; Penis; Psychoanalysis; Child Psychotherapy; Dreaming; Psychopathology; Suicide

The role of culture and family in mental illness - Jaschke, Virginia; Doi, Takeo (Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic, 1989)
Presents the case of a 25-yr-old Oriental man who shocked his family by revealing his homosexuality, choosing atheism over the family's traditional Christian religion, and attempting suicide. Cultural implications of the family's reactions to the patient's clinical picture are examined. (0 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: culture; family reactions to patient's mental illness & suicide attempt & revelation of homosexuality; 25 yr old Oriental male; case report; Adult; Asia; Cultural Characteristics; Culture; Homosexuality; Humans; Male; Mental Disorders; Parent-Child Relations; Asians; Culture (Anthropological); Family; Psychopathology; Attempted Suicide; Case Report; Male Homosexuality

The religious ecology of deviance - Bainbridge, William S. (American Sociological Review, 1989)
Evaluated the hypothesis, implied by sociological theories, that religion deters individual deviance, using a unified ecological dataset from 1980. Data on 75 US metropolitan areas were analyzed. Measures of suicide, crime, homosexuality, and cultism were included. Results indicate that many forms of crime and cultism are deterred by religion, whereas the influence of religion on suicide and homosexuality appears to be indirect. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: religion; deterrent to suicide & crime & homosexuality & cultism; Antisocial Behavior; Religion; Crime; Cultism; Homosexuality; Suicide

Transsexualism: Considerations regarding sexual reassignment - Hoopes, John E.; Knorr, Norman J.; Wolf, Sanford R. (Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 1968)
'Correspondence has been received by the Gender Identity Clinic from more than 700 individuals requesting evaluation and management. This report is based on the unsolicited information contained in letters from the initial 500 persons requesting evaluation and attempts characterization of the individuals on the basis of geographical distribution; age of onset; public dressing; psychiatric therapy; suicide and self-mutilation; hormone therapy; marital status; and occupation. Appeals for medical assistance from transsexual individuals are deserving of thorough consideration. Transsexualism and related sexual problems represent neglected areas of medical investigation.' (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: transsexualism; considerations in sexual reassignment; Adolescent; Adult; Age Factors; Aged; Child; Family Characteristics; Female; Hormones; Humans; Male; Middle Aged; Occupations; Psychotherapy; Sex Factors; Sexual Behavior; Social Behavior; Suicide; Transsexualism; Lesions; Paraphilias; Personnel Selection

Usual and unusual suicide pacts in Bangalore: A report - Sathyavathi, K. (Indian Journal of Social Work, 1975)
Analyzed 23 suicide pact cases and classified them into usual and unusual types. The unusual cases were considered so because (a) both members of the pact were of the same sex, and (b) the causes were sociocultural, centering around the institution of marriage in Hindu society in an urban area undergoing rapid social change. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: usual & unusual suicide pact cases; Bangalore; Suicide

Mortality in a follow-up of 500 psychiatric outpatients: II Cause-specific mortality - Martin, Ronald L.; Cloninger, C. Robert; Guze, Samuel B.; Clayton, Paula J. (Archives of General Psychiatry, 1985)
A 6–12 yr follow-up of 500 14–84 yr old psychiatric outpatients revealed a nonsignificant elevation in the rate of deaths due to natural causes. A significant elevation in the natural death rate was observed for males and Ss with organic brain disease. Mortality due to unnatural causes—suicide, homicide, or accidents—was significantly higher than expected. Excess mortality from unnatural causes was associated with younger age, single marital status, and race (White). Significant excesses of unnatural deaths occurred among Ss with alcoholism, antisocial personality, drug addiction, homosexuality, secondary affective disorder, and primary undiagnosed disorder. Findings are considered in relation to other studies on demographic and diagnostic factors associated with increased mortality among psychiatric patients and to the effectiveness of an aggressive treatment strategy in reducing suicide in patients with affective illness. (42 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: death rate due to natural vs unnatural causes; 14–84 yr old psychiatric outpatients; 6–12 yr followup; Adolescent; Adult; Age Factors; Aged; Alcoholism; Ambulatory Care; Antisocial Personality Disorder; Depressive Disorder; Female; Follow-Up Studies; Homicide; Homosexuality; Humans; Male; Mental Disorders; Middle Aged; Mood Disorders; Probability; Substance-Related Disorders; Suicide; Mortality Rate; Psychiatric Patients; Etiology; Followup Studies

Primary peptic ulcer in childhood: Psychosocial, psychological and psychiatric aspects - Christodoulou, G. N.; Gargoulas, A.; Papaloukas, A.; Marinopoulou, A.; Sideris, E. (Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 1977)
Examined 17 girls and 8 boys (aged 6–16 yrs) with radiologically confirmed primary peptic ulcers and matched them for age, sex, and socioeconomic status with randomly selected controls with no history of peptic ulcer. Results show that all patients suffered from duodenal ulcer, and there was an unexpected female preponderance. The frequency of introverted personalities was greater in the patients than in the controls. Five patients suffered from psychiatric disorders, 3 had histories of suicidal attempts, 3 reported homosexual experiences, and 8 had been operated on for appendicitis. These parameters were negative in all control cases. The ulcer Ss had lower mean IQ, worse adaptation to school, more anxious and overprotective parents, higher frequency of faddiness in food, and lower frequency of nailbiting than the controls. The onset of symptoms was preceded by psychotraumatic events in 8 cases. Findings suggest that the manifestation of the genetic background of duodenal ulcer is strongly influenced by environmental factors and factors associated with the patient's personality. (15 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: psychological & psychiatric & psychosocial variables & sex; incidence of primary peptic ulcers; 6–16 yr old patients vs healthy controls; Adaptation, Psychological; Adolescent; Age Factors; Child; Duodenal Ulcer; Family Characteristics; Female; Humans; Male; Personality Inventory; Psychophysiologic Disorders; Sex Factors; Socioeconomic Factors; Gastrointestinal Ulcers; Human Sex Differences; Mental Disorders; Personality Traits; Sociocultural Factors; Somatoform Disorders

Gender identity and gender transposition: Longitudinal outcome study of 24 male hermaphrodites assigned as boys - Money, John; Norman, Bernard F. (Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy, 1987)
Examined the longitudinal case histories of 24 male-assigned male hermaphrodites aged 18 yrs or older for variables related to gender transposition, namely, bisexualism, homosexuality, or sex reassignment to live as a female. 20 cases showed no signs of gender transposition, even when the following variables were in evidence: neonatal ambivalence in announcing the sex, cosmetic inadequacy of masculine genital appearance, sitting posture for urination, and feminizing instead of virilizing puberty. Four Ss' cases showed a trend toward an association between gender transposition, sitting to urinate, and being stigmatized in childhood. Freedom from gender transposition did not prevent suicidal depression, drug or alcohol addiction, marital failure, or death from testicular cancer. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: gender identity & transposition; male assigned male hermaphrodites 18 yrs old or older; longitudinal study; Adolescent; Adult; Child; Disorders of Sex Development; Family Therapy; Follow-Up Studies; Gender Identity; Humans; Identification (Psychology); Male; Sexual Behavior; Sexual Maturation; Stereotyping; Gender Identity; Hermaphroditism; Human Males; Longitudinal Studies

Self-amputation of the tongue - Michael, Kenneth D.; Beck, Rea (International Journal of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, 1973)
During an acute psychotic episode, a 33-yr-old man cut out his tongue. The act represented castration, substituted for suicide, relieved probably unconscious homosexual impulses, and symbolized an attempted reunion with his mother. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: psychoanalytic interpretation; tongue self-amputation; 33-yr-old male with acute psychotic episodes; Acute Psychosis; Case Report; Psychoanalytic Interpretation; Self-Mutilation; Tongue

Countertransference barriers to the middle phase of therapy: The treatment of an anorexic man - Foehrenbach, Leonore; Lane, Robert C. (Current Issues in Psychoanalytic Practice, 1987)
Reports the case of a 21-yr-old male anorexic whose presenting symptoms included obsessional behavior, fears about being homosexual, religious anxiety, and fear of committing suicide. Discussion focuses on reaching unconscious countertransferences and moving them to preconscious and conscious states as well as removing these countertransference barriers to enhance treatment progress. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: countertransference barriers to middle phase of therapy; anorexic 21 yr old male; case report; conference presentation; Anorexia Nervosa; Countertransference; Psychotherapeutic Processes; Case Report; Human Males

The telephone counseling center as a community mental health assessment tool - King, Glen D.; Morgan, James P.; Smith, Byron (American Journal of Community Psychology, 1974)
Calls made to a telephone counseling center over a 22-mo period were tabulated and categorized according to content of the call and disposition. Chi-square analyses were conducted to determine if different types of calls varied significantly across months relative to some baseline. Calls concerning academic problems, dating and social skills, homosexual problems, information and referral, loneliness and depression, problem pregnancy, suicide, and venereal disease were found to show significant fluctuations at or beyond the .05 level. Findings are discussed with regard to using the telephone counseling center as a community health assessment agency to mobilize and direct community treatment and prevention programs. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: analysis of content & disposition of calls; telephone counseling center as community mental health assessment tool; Community Mental Health Services; Counseling; Crisis Intervention; Delivery of Health Care; Epidemiologic Methods; Health Education; Humans; Patient Care Planning; Periodicity; Referral and Consultation; Seasons; Telephone; Community Mental Health; Counseling; Telephone Systems

The civilian psychiatrist and the draft - Frank, Ira M.; Hoedemaker, Frederick S. (Journal of American Psychiatry, 1970)
Discusses a study of 11 ss who presented psychiatric symptoms after receiving induction or activation notices which revealed that their chief motivation was to obtain a letter recommending deferment. Past and present military policies on this subject are discussed. The ethical question of psychiatrists' volunteering their services to young men seeking deferment to express their own opposition to the vietnam conflict is discussed and suggestions offered to the civilian psychiatrist who is called on to evaluate a patient for the draft. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: psychiatric symptomatology presentation for military deferment; ethical role of civilian psychiatrist in evaluation of draftees; Adolescent; Adult; Antisocial Personality Disorder; Anxiety; Death; Depression; Disability Evaluation; Ethics, Medical; Father-Child Relations; Fear; Homosexuality; Humans; Male; Mental Disorders; Military Personnel; Military Psychiatry; Neurotic Disorders; Parent-Child Relations; Personality Disorders; Psychiatry; Psychotic Disorders; Schizophrenia; Sibling Relations; Social Behavior Disorders; Stress, Psychological; Suicide; United States; Vietnam; Ethics; Military Psychology; Psychiatrists; Symptoms; Civilians

The curse: A study in family communication - Raybin, James B. (The American Journal of Psychiatry, 1970)
Discusses the curse, or sinister prophecy, from the viewpoint of its role in family communications. Illustrations are presented from 4 families. The creation and maintenance of a curse as part of a larger family mythology involves individual problems in identification and magical thinking, as well as family problems of homeostasis and the transmission of irrationality. Therapy of individuals and families caught up in a mythological system is an arduous task, as there is much resistance to change what is often seen as one's inevitable fate. (71 ref.) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: sinister prophecy; psychiatric analysis of role in family communications; Adolescent; Adult; Communication; Ego; Family; Family Therapy; Female; Homosexuality; Humans; Identification (Psychology); Interpersonal Relations; Life Style; Magic; Male; Projection; Psychoanalytic Theory; Psychosexual Development; Psychotic Disorders; Suicide; Superstitions; Communication; Family Relations; Psychoanalytic Interpretation; Psychopathology

Dreams of a dying patient - Greenberg, Harvey R.; Blank, H. Robert (British Journal of Medical Psychology, 1970)
Presents the case of a 50-yr-old man fatally ill with cancer, with special attention given to his dreams. His dreams demonstrate the recognition of physical dissolution and the wish to be well already. Also noted is the libidinization of death, its equation with incestuous feelings towards the mother, the process of premorbid object decathexis, and the increasingly unambivalent wish to die. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: dreams of dying patient; 50 yr. old male with cancer; Attitude to Health; Colonic Neoplasms; Countertransference (Psychology); Death; Depression; Dreams; Fantasy; Guilt; Homosexuality; Humans; Male; Masturbation; Middle Aged; Neoplasm Metastasis; Physician-Patient Relations; Psychoanalytic Interpretation; Psychotherapy; Suicide; Terminal Care; Unconscious (Psychology); Case Report; Death and Dying; Disorders; Dreaming; Patients

Sexual acting out and the desire for revenge - Hull, James W.; Lane, Robert C.; Okie, Jean (Psychoanalytic Review, 1989)
Discusses acting out and the eroticized transference and presents 3 cases in which sexual acting out (SAO) occurred at a key moment in treatment. Patients may act out sexually when an internalized relationship with an exciting but frustrating object has been activated in the transference. SAO is likely to follow moments of closeness with the analyst when gratification seems within reach. Often, the motive for SAO is the wish to take revenge on the analyst for past and present disappointments by significant objects. SAO can be advantageous in the analytic process: The form of the SAO may provide a representation of the patient's basic erotic tie to the object, furnishing the material for analytic inquiry. Exploration of SAO episodes may lead to patient verbalization of such fantasies. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2017 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: sexual acting out & eroticized transference; analysands; Acting Out; Adolescent; Adult; Borderline Personality Disorder; Child Abuse, Sexual; Female; Homosexuality; Hostility; Humans; Male; Psychoanalytic Theory; Psychoanalytic Therapy; Sexual Behavior; Suicide, Attempted; Transference (Psychology); Acting Out; Psychosexual Behavior; Psychotherapeutic Transference

Amnesia as a consequence of male rape: A case report - Kaszniak, Alfred W.; Nussbaum, Paul D.; Berren, Michael R.; Santiago, Jose (Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 1988)
A male patient suffering from a generalized functional retrograde amnesia, for all autobiographical information, was admitted to a psychiatric inpatient facility. Psychological testing indicated possible sexual assault. Following five hypnotic sessions, the patient regained his memory, and a violent sexual attack by two males was validated. The amnesia is discussed in terms of the constructs of implicit versus explicit memory, and reasons why a male rape victim might suffer such an extreme reaction. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: hypnosis; generalized functional retrograde amnesia; male rape victim; case report; Adjustment Disorders; Adult; Amnesia; Homosexuality; Humans; Male; Psychological Tests; Rape; Suicide, Attempted; Amnesia; Human Males; Hypnotherapy; Rape; Victimization; Case Report; Consequence

Yukio Mishima: A psychoanalytic interpretation - Abel, Theodora (Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis, 1978)
Explores the complex psychodynamics of the celebrated Japanese writer, Yukio Mishima. Pre-oedipal and oedipal conflicts reflect the fusion of his aggressive and libidinal drives. The early part of his life was lived behind a mask, as he attempted to deny his differentness. His early years were characterized by deprivation and a confused sense of self and gender. Early fantasies were masochistic. He never experienced a close relation with his father, who regarded writing as an unacceptable feminine pursuit. Early dependency needs were met by a paternal grandmother who, in her illness, in turn depended on young Mishima. His later fantasy life was invariably hostile, revolving around death, dying, and killing. Unresolved oedipal problems were central to his novels. The latter portion of his life was spent living the language of the body, in a desperate attempt to experience feelings as a counter to nothingness. Ideas on the samurai and seppuku are discussed. (25 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: preoedipal & oedipal conflicts & early deprivation & confused sense of self; psychodynamics of Y. Mishima; Attitude to Death; Dependency (Psychology); Famous Persons; Fantasy; Father-Child Relations; Gender Identity; History, 20th Century; Homosexuality; Hostility; Humans; Japan; Literature, Modern; Oedipus Complex; Physical Education and Training; Psychoanalytic Interpretation; Suicide; Writing; Artists; Literature; Oedipal Complex; Psychoanalytic Interpretation; Deprivation; Psychodynamics; Self-Concept

Psychoanalysis in search of Pirandello: Six characters and Henry IV - Roland, Alan; Rizzo, Gino (Psychoanalytic Review, 1977)
Explores the meanings underlying the 2 plays in terms of an analysis of the play, rather than in terms of the events in Pirandello's life, as has been done before. (32 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2017 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: psychoanalytic interpretation; L. Pirandello's 'Six Characters in Search of an Author' & 'Henry IV'; Conflict (Psychology); Dominance-Subordination; History, 20th Century; Homicide; Homosexuality; Humans; Incest; Italy; Jealousy; Literature, Modern; Psychoanalytic Interpretation; Sibling Relations; Suicide; Drama; Psychoanalytic Interpretation

Spatial representations and psychopathology - Roth, David; Blatt, Sidney J. (Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 1974)
Contends that spatial parameters serve as reliable auxiliary indices to the general level of psychological development and offer valuable guides for evaluating psychological organization in diagnosis and treatment. Spatial representations are an integral part of the individual's attempt to understand and organize reality and to achieve individuation and differentiation. The advances in differentiating self and objects can be evaluated by the cognitive development of spatial representations. Spatial representations can be of considerable aid in evaluating the level and extent of psychopathology. Clinical data indicate the value of spatial dimensions in identifying the level of object relations, defenses, and the quality of the transference and transference neurosis in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: spatial representations as indices of cognitive development & psychopathology; Defense Mechanisms; Depression; Dreams; Form Perception; Freudian Theory; Homosexuality; Humans; Hysteria; Mental Disorders; Object Attachment; Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder; Paranoid Disorders; Psychoanalytic Interpretation; Psychoanalytic Theory; Psychotherapy; Rorschach Test; Schizophrenia; Space Perception; Suicide; Transference (Psychology); Cognitive Development; Cognitive Processes; Psychopathology

A case of narcissism with autofellatio - Gorham, Donald R. (Psychiatric Quarterly, 1954)
The autofellatio did not seem to be particularly significant in connection with the personality maladjustment. It stood as a symbol of the narcissistic aspects of the personality. This patient had homosexual panic states which led to suicidal attempts. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: NARCISSISM; & AUTOFELLATIO; CASE; CASES; AUTOFELLATIO & NARCISSISM; AUTOFELLATIO; & NARCISSISM; BEHAVIOR PROBLEMS; Humans; Narcissism; Personality; Personality Disorders; Sexual Behavior; No terms assigned

Differential psychotherapy of borderline states - Eisenstein, Victor W. (Psychiatric Quarterly, 1951)
The borderline group consists of descriptively neurotic but dynamically psychotic patients. This group cannot be treated successfully by standard psychoanalysis but requires active support from the therapist, avoidance of free association, and use of the sitting position. Differences in technique must be appreciated to avoid the production of frank psychosis. Selective therapeutic measures are required in regard to fantasy, hostility, homosexual material, acting out, and suicidal impulses. It is very often necessary to work with families of these patients. 18 references. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: PSYCHOSIS; PSYCHONEUROSIS BORDERLINE; THERAPY; PSYCHONEUROSIS; PSYCHOSIS BORDERLINE; PSYCHOANALYSIS (THERAPY); PSYCHOSIS-PSYCHONEUROSIS BORDERLINE; BEHAVIOR DEVIATIONS; PSYCHONEUROSES; Humans; Neurotic Disorders; Psychotherapy; Psychotic Disorders; No terms assigned

Dementia praecox in military life as compared with dementia praecox in civil life - Duval, A. M.; Hoffman, J. L. (War Medicine. Chicago, 1941)
A study of more than 5000 schizophrenic cases admitted to Saint Elizabeth's Hospital, Washington, shows that the majority of those developing during military life differ from the insidious chronic type predominating in civil life in that the onset is abrupt, the course stormy, situational factors more important, and the prognosis better. Lack of guidance when problems become too heavy is a great factor. A particularly vulnerable type is 'mother's boy,' who develops catalepsy but makes a spectacular recovery when he learns that he is not to return to service and mother arrives on the scene. Men with latent homosexual tendencies may develop homo-sexual panic with suicidal attempts. The disillusioned soldier cannot escape practically from an intolerable situation and hence uses psychological methods. The above conditions are similar to 'shell shock,' an overwhelming conflict between the instinct of self-preservation and the sense of duty. The diagnosis lies between acute schizophrenia and hysteria, the mechanisms resembling the latter, the clinical picture and course, the former. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: SCHIZOPHRENIA; MILITARY; FUNCTIONAL DISORDERS; INDUSTRIAL AND PERSONNEL PROBLEMS; No terms assigned

The criminal psychopath in the psychoanalytic system - Wittels, F. (Psychoanalytic Review, 1937)
The criminal discussed here is the over-promiscuous individual of either sex who shows marked psychopathy but nothing as complicated as a neurosis or psychosis. Such an offender is really a narcist of a special bisexual type—Don Juan in the male, and Messalina in the female. The classic description of these types fails to show the feminine component in the male and the male component in the female, but they are present. Serious crimes result from the criminal's 'suicidal' attempt to get away from his weaker component. He is too narcissistic to have real guilt reaction. There is a special classification of phallic levels applicable to these people. A strong partner is needed to supply a super-ego for them. They need glory and glamor: analysis is seldom of value in these cases. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2017 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: PSYCHOPATHY; CRIME AND; PSYCHOANALYSIS; CRIME; PSYCHOPATHY AND; CRIME AND DELINQUENCY; DREAMS; HYPNOSIS; No terms assigned

Emotionally disturbed adolescents with alcoholic parents - Kearney, Thomas R.; Taylor, Clarence (Acta Paedopsychiatrica: International Journal of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 1969)
20 adolescents, average age 15, were seen for 1-4 yr. All had 1 alcoholic parent; 3 families had 2. Severe disorder was found in 15 Ss, evidenced by drunkeness, promiscuity, and drug taking. 2 were overt homosexuals. 8 were arrested, 1 boy killed 2 persons, 8 were hospitalized, and 4 attempted suicide. Adolescents from nonalcoholic homes showed significantly less disturbance. Some parents were treated with good results. Parental alcoholism seems extremely destructive, but it is treatable, therefore important to detect when children show behavior problems. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: behavior & emotional disorders; adolescents with alcoholic parents; Alcoholism; Drug Addiction; Mental Disorders; Parents

Parents as the makers of social deviates - Bonney, M. E. (Social Forces, 1941)
Individuals who deviate from our social norms do so because of their family backgrounds. 'They have experienced some form of rejection by one or both of their parents, or they have had excessive emotional ties with one of the parents—usually the mother, while at the same time lacking even the normal relationships with the other parent.' The cases of a typical delinquent, alcoholic, homosexual, radical, and suicide are considered. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: SOCIAL; DEVIATE; PARENT; SOCIAL DEVIATE; GENERAL SOCIAL PROCESSES (INCL. ESTHETICS); FUNCTIONAL DISORDERS; No terms assigned

Ten months experience with LSD users admitted to county psychiatric receiving hospital - Blumenfield, Michael; Glickman, Lewis (New York State Journal of Medicine, 1967)
OF 25 USERS OF LSD BROUGHT TO THE HOSPITAL, ALL HAD OBTAINED THEIR DRUGS FROM ILLEGAL SOURCES, AND 23 WERE HOSPITALIZED. MOST OFTEN SYMPTOMS LEADING TO ADMISSION FOLLOWED INGESTION BY SEVERAL HR. AND CONTINUED TO INCREASE UNTIL ADMISSION BECAME NECESSARY. THE USERS WERE PREDOMINANTLY WHITE AND YOUNG, THE AVERAGE SCHOOL GRADE COMPLETED WAS 10.6, AND NONE WAS ENGAGED IN A PROFESSION. 18 HAD HAD PSYCHIATRIC TREATMENT; 80% WERE DIAGNOSED AS SCHIZOPHRENIC OR BORDERLINE SCHIZOPHRENIC SS. THEY WERE ADMITTED BECAUSE OF ATTEMPTED SUICIDE, ATTEMPTED HOMICIDE, SMASHING FURNITURE, ATTEMPTED PEDOPHILIA, PROLONGED ANXIETY, AND CONFUSION AND HALLUCINATIONS; 88% ADMITTED TO USING AT LEAST 1 OTHER ADDICTING, HABITUATING, OR PSYCHEDELIC DRUG; 20% WERE OVERTLY HOMOSEXUAL; AND 40% HAD HISTORIES OF ARRESTS. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2017 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: MENTAL HOSPITAL ADMISSIONS; PSYCHIATRIC & CRIMINAL BACKGROUND; Adolescent; Adult; Female; Humans; Lysergic Acid Diethylamide; Male; New York City; Psychoses, Substance-Induced; Substance-Related Disorders; Lysergic Acid Diethylamide; Psychiatric Hospitalization; Psychiatric Hospitals

The spouses of alcoholics: An examples of assortative mating - Rimmer, John; Winokur, George (Diseases of the Nervous System, 1972)
Studied the families of 259 alcoholics, including family histories of psychiatric illness, in comparison to normal controls. Results are reported in 3 tables: Table 1 presents data on mean age, sex, and race ratio, and family psychiatric histories; alcoholics and their spouses have similar patterns for suicide and alcololism. Table 2 lists prevalence of various psychiatric diagnoses for relatives, spouses, and normal controls, indicating the similarity between alcoholics and relatives and spouses of alcoholics. Table 3 provides a further breakdown of the figures in Table 2 for a same-sex comparison. Findings indicate that assortative mating may occur in alcoholics, as well as in felons and their spouses as indicated by previous studies. It is suggested that research on genetic and social factors in psychiatric illness requires detailed study of spouses of the patients and comparison of other populations. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: family histories of psychiatric illness & mean age & sex & race ratio; alcoholics & their spouses; Alcoholism; Antisocial Personality Disorder; Depression; Female; Humans; Interpersonal Relations; Male; Marriage; Schizophrenia; Sex Factors; Suicide; Alcoholism; Family Background; Mental Disorders; Spouses

Aspects of narcissism in psychoses: Considerations based on experience with institutional therapy and certain types of chemotherapy - Guyotat, Jean (L'Évolution Psychiatrique, 1970)
Summarizes the development of the psychoanalytical concept of narcissism, and explores those aspects of the psychotic's narcissism which affect staff members, including psychiatric trainees, with respect to their own narcissism, defense mechanisms, and reactions. It is stressed that through the narcissism of the staff member, the narcissism of the psychotic can be approached and the patient treated. Cathexis of thought by the psychotic, during his struggle against self-division, influences the thoughts of staff members. Both patient's and staff's idealization processes during the development of a narcissistic object relationship by the psychotic are examined according to their structuring function or disturbing effects (depression, suicide attempts, or runaways). By study of the psycholeptic or psychodysleptic effects of antidepressive chemotherapy, further clarification of the narcissistic function of the psychotic can be accomplished. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: narcissism in psychoses; patient-staff member relationship & antidepressive chemotherapy; Antidepressive Agents; Anxiety; Delirium; Depression; Ego; Female; Homosexuality; Hospitalization; Humans; Male; Mother-Child Relations; Narcissism; Physician-Patient Relations; Professional-Patient Relations; Psychotherapy; Psychotic Disorders; Regression (Psychology); Self Concept; Suicide; Drug Therapy; Interpersonal Interaction; Mental Health Personnel; Personality Traits; Psychosis; Chemotherapy

Genital self-mutilation in males: Psychodynamic anatomy of a psychosis - Fisch, Robert Z. (American Journal of Psychotherapy, 1987)
Presents a case report of a 48-yr-old man who cut off his penis during a psychotic episode. This act may be understood as an attempt at partial suicide to atone for guilt feelings about his homosexuality; failure to establish satisfying relationships; forbidden oedipal fantasies; and his birth, which he believed was nearly fatal to his mother. This act achieved the conscious goal of getting rid of unacceptable sexual urges and the unconscious goal of constituting a symbiotic, oral-dependent fusion with a mother figure. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: psychodynamic analysis of genital self mutilation; 48 yr old male who cut off his penis during psychotic episode; case report; Homosexuality; Humans; Male; Middle Aged; Orchiectomy; Penis; Schizoid Personality Disorder; Self Mutilation; Male Castration; Psychodynamics; Psychosis; Self-Mutilation; Case Report; Penis

Organic affective disorder in a patient with congenital adrenal hyperplasia - Feldman, Steven R.; Krishnan, K. Ranga; McPherson, Harry; Meglin, Diane E. (Biological Psychiatry, 1987)
Presents the case of a 26-yr-old White female with poorly controlled 21-hydroxylase enzyme deficiency—the most common form of congenital adrenal hyperplasia—who presented with severe melancholic symptoms, including contemplation of suicide. Treatment of the 21-hydroxylase deficiency with hydrocortisone and flurocortisone alleviated the depressive symptoms. The role of glucocorticoids in regulating neurotransmitters and neuropeptide systems is discussed. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: severe melancholic symptoms; 26 yr old female with congenital adrenal hyperplasia; case report; Adrenal Hyperplasia, Congenital; Adult; Depressive Disorder; Drug Therapy, Combination; Female; Fludrocortisone; Homosexuality; Humans; Hydrocortisone; Neurocognitive Disorders; Adrenal Gland Disorders; Congenital Disorders; Major Depression; Case Report

Effects of marihuana on adolescents and young adults - Kolansky, Harold; Moore, William T. (JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association, 1971)
Reviews the large amount of marihuana smoking in this country as well as some of the literature concerning adverse effects. 38 13-24 yr. old males and females who smoked marihuana 2 or more times weekly, were examined between 1965 and 1970, and all showed adverse psychological effects. Some also showed neurologic signs and symptoms. Of the Ss seen, there were 8 with psychoses; 4 of these attempted suicide. Included in these cases are 13 unmarried female patients who became sexually promiscuous while using marihuana; 7 of these became pregnant. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: marihuana; adverse psychological & neurological effects; 13-24 yr. olds; Adolescent; Adult; Age Factors; Cannabis; Delusions; Depth Perception; Female; Homosexuality; Hospitalization; Humans; Learning Disorders; Male; Pregnancy; Psychological Tests; Psychoses, Substance-Induced; Speech Disorders; Substance Withdrawal Syndrome; Substance-Related Disorders; Time Factors; Marijuana; Mental Disorders; Neurology

Pairs of same-sexed siblings discordant for antisocial behaviour - Reitsma-Street, Marge; Offord, David R.; Finch, Terri (The British Journal of Psychiatry, 1985)
Explored personal and familial factors influencing the presence or absence and degree of antisocial behavior in adolescents. 45 male (mean age 16.5 yrs) and 26 female (mean age 17.2 yrs) antisocial adolescents were compared to a same-sex sibling (males mean age 18.4, females mean age 19.4) who was relatively clear of antisocial behavior and agency contact along several dimensions, including developmental, family, psychiatric, educational, cognitive, and pro- and antisocial behavior. Ss were interviewed by a trained interviewer who did not know Ss' status and subsequently completed a paragraph-completion task and the Spelling, Mathematics and Reading subtests of the Wide Range Achievement Test. Ss' parents also completed interviews. Results reveal that antisocial Ss had significantly more negative perceptions and experiences than their siblings, who experienced more protective influences. Earlier onset of activities such as smoking in antisocial Ss also significantly differentiated the pairs. Using discriminant analysis, early temperament data alone correctly classified probands and siblings in 95% of the Ss. (50 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2018 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: personal & familial factors; antisocial behavior; antisocial adolescents with non-antisocial same-sex sibling; Adolescent; Alcohol Drinking; Child; Education; Female; Humans; Male; Parent-Child Relations; Sexual Behavior; Smoking; Social Behavior Disorders; Substance-Related Disorders; Suicide, Attempted; Temperament; Antisocial Behavior; Etiology; Family; Siblings

Investigations on a case of male transsexualism - Dellaert, R.; Kunke, T. (Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, 1969)
Presents an investigation of a case of transsexualism and describes progress achieved in psychotherapy via the cooperative efforts of a psychologist and a psychiatrist. The patient became obsessed with the idea of undergoing a surgical procedure to effect a change in sex when confronted with the prospect of marriage. Recovery ensued following a complete analysis of the negative and positive oedipus complex. Therapy results point to a psychogenic etiology of transsexualism. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: male transsexualism; cooperative psychotherapy with psychologist & psychiatrist & implications of psychogenic etiology; case report; Adolescent; Adult; Child Development; Dreams; Family; Fantasy; Homosexuality; Humans; Interprofessional Relations; Male; Physician-Patient Relations; Prognosis; Psychiatry; Psychoanalytic Interpretation; Psychoanalytic Theory; Psychological Tests; Psychology, Clinical; Psychosexual Development; Psychotherapy; Repression, Psychology; Rorschach Test; Sexual Behavior; Suicide; Transsexualism; Case Report; Etiology; Paraphilias; Psychotherapy

Studies of Rorschach content: A review of research literature: II Non-traditional uses of content indicators - Haley, E. Marie; Draguns, Juris G.; Phillips, Leslie (Journal of Projective Techniques & Personality Assessment, 1967)
DEALT WITH THE EXTENSION OF RESEARCH ON RORSCHACH CONTENT TO NEW MODES OF SCORING AND CLASSIFYING TEST RESPONSES THAT LIE OUTSIDE OF THE CONVENTIONAL CLASSIFICATION SCHEME. 4 AVENUES OF GOING BEYOND THE TRADITIONAL CONTENT CATEGORIES ARE PRESENTED AND REVIEWED: STUDY OF SUBDIVISIONS WITHIN THE UNITS OF THE GENERALLY USED SCORING SYSTEM, EXPLORATION OF THE SYMBOLIC MEANING OF RORSCHACH RESPONSES, INVESTIGATION OF CONSTELLATIONS OF CONTENT SIGNS, AND DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF CONTENT SCALES. LITTLE SYSTEMATIC WORK HAS BEEN DONE IN THE 1ST 2 AREAS OF ENDEAVOR. THE EVIDENCE ACCUMULATED FOR THE OTHER 2 SUGGESTS THAT, AT BEST, SCALES AND SIGNS DERIVED FROM CONTENT YIELD OVERLAP, AND NOT CORRESPONDENCE, WITH THEIR RESPECTIVE REAL-LIFE REFERENTS. THE STUDY OF MEDIATING VARIABLES THAT ACT TO MAGNIFY OR REDUCE THE EXTENT OF THIS RELATIONSHIP HAS MERELY BEGUN AND REMAINS THE MAJOR UNFULFILLED TASK IN RORSCHACH CONTENT RESEARCH. (6 P. REF.) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2017 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: CONTENT/NON-TRADITIONAL; SCORING & CLASSIFYING TEST RESPONSES; REVIEW; Affect; Aggression; Alcoholism; Anxiety; Body Image; Homosexuality; Humans; Motivation; Personality; Psychophysiology; Rorschach Test; Substance-Related Disorders; Suicide; Psychodiagnosis; Rorschach Test; Scoring (Testing); Test Scores; Classification (Cognitive Process); Content Analysis (Test); Psychodiagnostic Typologies; Taxonomies

Common problems in the treatment of schizophrenia in adolescents - Green, M. R. (Psychiatric Quarterly, 1966)
Describes a phenomenological framework for understanding schizophrenia in adolescence using a Negro patient chosen to illustrate the complexity of the interpersonal and psychosocial problems of schizophrenia in adolescence. Treating schizophrenia challenges the therapist to be aware of his own values, purposes, identity, and goals, and to appreciate that such awareness is very difficult. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: schizophrenia; psychosocial problems; interpersonal problems; treatment; Adolescent; African Americans; Dreams; Homosexuality; Humans; Male; Psychology, Adolescent; Psychotherapy; Schizophrenia, Childhood; Sexual Behavior; Suicide; Interpersonal Interaction; Psychosocial Factors; Schizophrenia; Treatment

Engel's 'Psychogenic pain and the pain-prone patient': A retrospective, controlled clinical study - Adler, Rolf H.; Zlot, Stefan; Hürny, Christoph; Minder, Christoph (Psychosomatic Medicine, 1989)
Tested G. L. Engel's (1959) hypothesis of pain-prone patients having a distinct pattern of developmental psychosocial experiences, using 4 groups of 20 adults: Ss with (a) psychogenic pain, (b) organic pain, (c) psychogenic bodily symptoms, and (d) organic disease. An open-ended interview, including childhood experiences, was tape-recorded. Measures were taken to minimize observer bias. Ss in Group A had significantly increased prevalence of abusive or aggressive home environment and an ill (often the same-sex) parent. Their adult lives were severely disturbed in the areas of health, interpersonal relations, and work life. Factor analysis produced 2 factors explaining 73% of the variance in Group A: Brutality-Overcompensation was related to duration of pain, and Submission-Inhibition was related to number of operations and accidents in adulthood. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: developmental psychosocial experiences; pain proneness; adults with psychogenic pain or bodily symptoms or organic pain or disease; Adult; Clinical Trials as Topic; Depressive Disorder; Female; Gender Identity; Humans; Interpersonal Relations; Male; Middle Aged; Pain; Personality Development; Psychophysiologic Disorders; Retrospective Studies; Sick Role; Social Class; Substance-Related Disorders; Suicide, Attempted; Disorders; Pain; Predisposition; Psychosocial Development; Somatoform Pain Disorder

The Kreutzer Sonata; a problem in latent homosexuality and castration - Karpman, B. (Psychoanalytic Review, 1938)
The author submits 'that the Kreutzer Sonata is a thinly disguised self-portraiture of Tolstoy himself, and that the trends therein expressed may be used as clues in search for the understanding of Tolstoy's own life.' An overwhelming fear and hatred of sex is manifest in the hero. He centers his hate of womanhood upon his wife. Murdering his wife expresses his hatred of sex and frees him from its burden. The hero's feeling of relief and sleep after the murder, his failure to commit suicide, and the manner of the murder—stabbing and choking—bear out the interpretation. The hero's (and Tolstoy's) advocacy of abstinence and chastity are further expressions of paraphiliac trends. The author believes that the novel gives an excellent portrayal of Freud's concept of the death instinct. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2017 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: PSYCHOANALYSIS; LITERATURE AND; LITERATURE; PSYCHOANALYSIS AND; DREAMS; HYPNOSIS; No terms assigned

A recent case of 'dying together' - Murray, C. D. (Psychoanalytic Review, 1931)
An analysis of Harry Crosby, based upon newspaper accounts and his poetry (Red Skeletons, Paris; Edition Narcisse, 1927). The author follows Sadger and Jones in showing that the wish to die together is the same as the wish to lie and sleep together, and has as components homosexual, necrophilic and coprophilic tendencies, birth fantasies and vampirism. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2017 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: SUICIDE; DOUBLE; SPECIAL MENTAL CONDITIONS; No terms assigned

Asocial adolescent behavior and possibilities for preventive actions - Bukelić, Jovan (Psihijatrija Danas, 1979)
Emphasizes forms of sociopathological and psychiatric determinants of asocial behavior. A brief analysis of forms of deviant behavior of adolescents is presented: the hippie movement; drug addiction; abuse of alcohol, sedatives, and hypnotics; drug distribution and smuggling; prostitution; homosexuality; suicides; and violence. Prevention should be carried out by multidisciplinary teams and institutions, particularly by those dealing with adolescent populations at risk. Families, schools, and other institutions should be motivated by the axiom that the adolescent must not be driven into exile or arrested in maturation by overprotection. Narrowing the field of pathological conflicts, as well as of deviant, capricious, and rebellious behaviors, facilitates a more peaceful atmosphere in which the adolescent can gain insight and solve conflicts. (11 ref) (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: primary mental health prevention of asocial behavior; adolescents; Antisocial Behavior; Adolescent Behavior; Preventive Mental Health Services

Psychiatric disorders among aborigines of the Australian Western Desert - Jones, Ivor H.; Horne, David J. (Social Science & Medicine, 1973)
Conducted a psychiatric survey of 959 Australian Western Desert and Kimberley aborigines, a group containing very primitive people, many of whom are unaffected by western influences. The prevalence of psychiatric illness was somewhat lower than that found in western communities, but the types of illness, with certain exceptions, were similar. Cases were found of dementia, schizophrenia, puerperal psychosis, depression, hysterical states, personality disorders, organic brain syndromes, mental deficiency, and childhood behavioral disorders. There are negative findings which could be of relevance: only 1 case was found of overt anxiety and this was in a very westernized individual. No cases of suicide or homosexuality have been found among tribal aborigines although these have been found among aborigines who have lost a great part of their indigenous culture. A possible explanation for these negative findings in terms of cultural differences is discussed. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: psychiatric disorders; Australian Western Desert & Kimberley aborigines; survey; Epidemiology; Mental Disorders; Tribes

Psychiatric disorders among aborigines of the Australian Western Desert: II - Jones, Ivor H. (Social Science & Medicine, 1972)
Conducted a psychiatric survey of 300 aborigines of the Australian Western Desert living on 2 separate Missions and compared results with similar surveys of 2 other communities in the Western Desert. No evidence of suicide or homosexuality was found. Only 1 example of free-floating anxiety was seen. 2 examples of hysterical fits were found, but depression was not seen in contrast to the Warburton Range report. Personality disorders were similar at all 4 Missions, the most prominent being excessive aggressive behavior. Hypochondriacal symptoms were prominent and related to possession states, but reporting of this type of symptom seemed to be markedly influenced by the attitude of the local medical authorities. Reason for apparent differences between western and aborigine communities is briefly discussed. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: psychiatric disorders; aborigines of Australian Western Desert; Culture (Anthropological); Mental Disorders

Twenty adolescent novels (and more) that counselors should know about - Hipple, Theodore W.; Yarbrough, Jane H.; Kaplan, Jeffrey S. (School Counselor, 1984)
Provides a list and brief review of novels for adolescents about alienation and identity, athletics, close-friend or sibling rivalry, death and dying, divorce, drugs and alcohol, ethical dilemmas, handicapped youth, homosexuality, mental illness, parents, prejudice, rape, religious pressures, school, sex, social responsibility, suicide, teenage crime, and teenage pregnancy. It is suggested that after reading or skimming these books, counselors can recommend them to students. (67 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: list of novels dealing with adolescent issues; school counselors; Bibliotherapy; Books; School Counseling

The risk of breakdown during outpatient psychotherapy - Parsons, Michael (American Journal of Psychotherapy, 1980)
Presents a retrospective case-note survey covering 1 yr of intake into an analytically oriented outpatient psychotherapy unit. Of the 118 patients entering therapy, 8.4% suffered breakdown during the course of treatment. The following characteristics had been believed to put patients at greater risk of breakdown, but in the present study, patients with these factors in fact broke down no more frequently than others: past psychiatric hospital admissions or suicide attempts, drug or alcohol abuse, antisocial behavior, homosexuality or other deviations, hypochondriasis or psychosomatic symptoms, a positive psychiatric family history, a disturbed childhood. Duration of symptoms bore no relation to breakdown. Patients with a previous psychiatric history but who had been treated for only 6 mo or less broke down more often. Findings are shown to be applicable in selection of patients for psychotherapy. (12 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: previous psychiatric history & duration of treatment; risk of breakdown during outpatient psychotherapy; outpatients; Ambulatory Care; Hospitalization; Humans; Mental Disorders; Psychoanalytic Therapy; Psychotherapy, Group; Stress, Psychological; Outpatient Treatment; Outpatients; Patient History; Psychotherapy; Stress Reactions; Susceptibility (Disorders)

The MMPI as a primary differentiator and predictor of behavior in prison: A methodological critique and review of the recent literature - Gearing, Milton L. (Psychological Bulletin, 1979)
Evaluated 71 investigations of MMPI usage in prison work. Additional studies were examined to provide a methodological basis for the comparisons of the research, which were made within sections on (a) sampling procedures, (b) sources of variance and their effects on test results, (c) protocol validity, and (d) methods of profile interpretation. Several methodological shortcomings and various differences in procedure across studies limit the generalizability of the findings. Research in the hostile-assaultive section, however, has produced preliminary MMPI indicators for a type of violently aggressive behavior pattern that is otherwise difficult to detect. Other areas in which the MMPI shows promise include homosexuality, recidivism, and the classification of psychopathologic behavior. More research is needed in the areas of institutional adjustment and suicide. Recommendations for future investigations prescribe adequately controlled sampling procedures, modifications in the interpretation of protocol validity, investigation of certain methodological questions in their own right, consideration of more than one aspect of profile data, the use of base-rate probabilities in predictive studies and the pursuit of longitudinal studies with thorough follow-up procedures. (3½ p ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: MMPI as primary differentiator & predictor of behavior in prison; methodological critique & literature review; Methodology; Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory; Sampling (Experimental); Statistical Validity; Test Validity; Criminology; Literature Review; Penology; Prisoners; Profiles (Measurement)

Alcoholism in women: Current knowledge and implications for treatment - Straussner, Shulamith L. (Alcoholism Treatment Quarterly, 1985)
Reviews the literature on alcoholic women since 1972, noting that nearly all current knowledge is based on women in treatment. Estimates of the number of alcoholic women in the US range from 1.5 to 2.25 million. Alcoholic men and women have been found to differ on etiological, physiological, psychological, and sociological factors. Women tend to absorb alcohol faster and become intoxicated sooner than men and to become more readily intoxicated prior to menstruation. Alcoholic women are more likely than alcoholic men to attempt suicide and to have primary affective disorders, and their concurrent abuse of drugs tends to be higher. Differences among alcoholic women are related to differential diagnosis, SES, employment status, sexual preference, aging, and minority status. Findings concerning fertility and drinking during pregnancy for alcoholic women have been mixed. (57 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: alcoholism; human females; literature review; implications for treatment; Alcoholism; Human Females; Literature Review; Alcohol Treatment

Depresivna neuroza—aktualna ili transferna? = Depressive neurosis—actual or transferential? - Marković, Borislav (Psihijatrija Danas, 1984)
Discusses whether depressive neurosis is actual or transferential. The present author views it as a transferential neurosis, but it is not always easy to distinguish between neurotic and psychotic depression when the typical fears occur in the oral and oedipal phases of personality development. A case is presented in which the intensity of castration anxiety prevailed. In the analytical treatment of such a condition, the analysis of the superego is most important. Superego is defined as a function of the integral regulation of self-esteem and of issuing signals or the full reactions of guilt, shame, and the need for self-punishment. A basis for the internal moral directing of actions, affects, thoughts, and ideation is provided. This is illustrated through the symptoms of suicidal and homicidal tendencies of the patient and the nature of his emotional reactions toward his father. If the oral phase is free of fear and depressive neurosis is pure, psychodynamics is viewed as similar to that of conversive psychoneurosis, with the prevailing aggressive energy resulting from problems in identification with the parent of the same sex. (23 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2017 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: depressive neurosis as actual vs transferential; implications for psychoanalysis; Depression (Emotion); Neurosis; Psychoanalysis

Depression and somatosensory evoked potentials: II Correlations between SEP and depressive phenomenology - Ågren, Hans; Österberg, Benny; Franzén, Ove (Biological Psychiatry, 1983)
In 16 female and 16 male patients (mean age 37 yrs) with major depressive disorders according to Research Diagnostic Criteria, symptomatology was rated using the Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia; somatosensory EPs elicited by tactile fingertip stimuli were recorded at the vertex of the scalp. Ss were drug free except for benzodiazepines. Amplitudes and amplitude/stimulus intensity slopes were adjusted to same sex, age, height, and weight. Uni- and multivariate correlations revealed associations between the N140–P200 amplitude and hypothyroidlike aspects of depression with symptoms such as poor appetite and indecisiveness, and between the P100–N140 slope and intrapunitive aspects of depression with symptoms such as negative self-evaluation and suicidal attempts. (12 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2018 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: somatosensory EPs & depressive symptoms & severity; depressed males & females with mean age of 37 yrs; Adult; Anti-Anxiety Agents; Attention; Benzodiazepines; Depressive Disorder; Evoked Potentials, Somatosensory; Female; Humans; Male; Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; Depression (Emotion); Severity (Disorders); Somatosensory Evoked Potentials; Symptoms

Adolescents' grief reactions and self-concept perceptions following sibling death: A study of 33 teenagers - Balk, David (Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 1983)
Interviewed 13 males and 20 females 14–19 yrs old regarding a sibling's death and administered Ss the Offer Self-Image Questionnaire for Adolescents (OSIQ). Reactions investigated were emotional responses, extent of preoccupations with thoughts of the dead sibling, effects on sleeping and eating habits, anniversary reactions, hallucinations of the dead sibling, thoughts of suicide, and effects on grades and study habits. In addition to OSIQ data, self-concept measures included self-concept in common contexts, perceptions of personal maturity, lessons learned from the sibling's death, relationship with the sibling before the death, and importance of religious beliefs. Comparison with OSIQ standard scores indicated that Ss were as adjusted as same-age same-sex norm groups. Analyses identified emotional responses significantly associated with sex and age. Significant results emerged regarding effects on grades and study habits, perceptions of personal maturity, and increased importance of religious beliefs. Specific emotional responses were influenced by family closeness and perception of family communication. Two case descriptions show typical patterns experienced by the Ss. (47 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: sibling death; grief responses & self concept; 14–19 yr olds; Death and Dying; Grief; Self-Concept; Siblings

Review of People in Crisis: Understanding and Helping (3rd ed) (Contemporary Psychology, 1990)
Reviews the book, People in Crisis: Understanding and Helping (3rd ed.) by Lee Ann Hoff (see record [rid]1989-98342-000[/rid]). This revision offers increased content on homelessness, infertility, youth suicide, technological disasters, date rape, and ethnic groups. New topics include the farm crisis, gay rights and violence against gays, and a new chapter on AIDS. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: crises; understanding; helping; Assistance (Social Behavior); Comprehension; Crises

Comparison of members of pro- and anti-abortion organizations in Missouri - Granberg, Donald (Biodemography and Social Biology, 1981)
Comparisons were made between 232 members of Missouri Citizens for Life (MCL) and 292 members of the Abortion Rights Alliance (ARA) of Missouri via mailed surveys. ARA members were more educated, urbanized, and had fewer children. MCL members were predominantly Catholic and, compared to ARA members, highly religious. ARA members were more inclined to favor equality of the sexes, especially in their approval of the Equal Rights Amendment. ARA members were politically more liberal and more committed to free speech for social deviants. MCL members were much more committed to a conservative approach to matters of personal morality. MCL members regarded suicide and euthanasia as more objectionable than did their ARA counterparts, but they were also more militaristic. (21 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: demographic characteristics & attitudes; pro- vs anti-abortion organization members; Attitudes; Demographic Characteristics; Educational Background; Induced Abortion

Why do women live longer than men? - Waldron, Ingrid (Journal of Human Stress, 1976)
Discusses causes (heart disease, suicide, fatal motor accidents, cirrhosis of the liver, cancer, and emphysema) of the high mortality rate among US males. It is argued that the behavior expectations of males in US society play a major role in their elevated mortality. (98 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: societal behavior expectations of males; role in high mortality rate; Aged; Coronary Disease; Female; Gonadal Steroid Hormones; Humans; Longevity; Male; Middle Aged; Mortality; Respiratory Tract Diseases; Risk; Sex Factors; Smoking; Disorders; Human Males; Human Sex Differences; Mortality Rate

Psychoanalysis: A review of current literature - Teslaar, J. S. Van (The American Journal of Psychology, 1912)
Reviews literature on psychoanalysis during 1911. Includes Freud's discussion of the technique of dream analysis and its practical use in the psychoanalytical treatment of neurosis; Rudolf Reitler's discussion of the relation of suicidal impulse in the adolescent to Freud's infantile sex theory; B. Dattner's application of the psychoanalytical method to a case of stammering which had resisted all other methods of treatment; N. Vaschide's papers on sleep and dreams published at various intervals since 1898; John Mourly Vold's work on the experimental side of the problem of dreams; L. Loewenfeld's discussion of Freud's theory of infantile sexuality; P. Nacke's views on homosexuality; A.J. Storfer's study of patricide, applying to social psychology some of the fundamental psychoanalytical principles; and F. Wittels's application of the analytical data of Freudian psychology to the field of letters and to the motivation of dramatic plots. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2017 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: Psychoanalysis; Freud (Sigmund); No terms assigned

Some personality differences between asthmatic, allergic and normal children - Aaron, Norma S. (Journal of Clinical Psychology, 1967)
ASTHMATIC, ALLERGIC, AND NORMAL CHILDREN IN 3 GROUPS OF 20 SS EACH WERE GIVEN THE ROTTER INCOMPLETE SENTENCES BLANK AND THE TAT. RESULTS ARE PRESENTED FOR MOTIVATION, GENERALIZED CONFLICT, HOSTILITY, HOSTILITY RELATING TO GUNS, DEPRESSION, FAMILY RELATIONSHIP, RELATING TO PARENT OF OPPOSITE SEX, LONELINESS OR AMBITION, AND BIRTH ORDER. SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCES WERE NOTED IN ALL AREAS EXCEPT MOTIVATION, GENERALIZED CONFLICT, HOSTILITY, FAMILY RELATIONSHIP, AND RELATING TO PARENT OF SAME SEX. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2017 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: PERSONALITY DIFFERENCES BETWEEN ASTHMATIC & ALLERGIC CHILDREN; TAT & ROTTER INCOMPLETE SENTENCE BLANK; Achievement; Anxiety; Anxiety, Separation; Asthma; Birth Order; Child; Conflict (Psychology); Depression; Electroencephalography; Female; Hostility; Humans; Hypersensitivity; Intelligence Tests; Male; Motivation; Parent-Child Relations; Personality; Projective Techniques; Psychological Tests; Sex Factors; Thematic Apperception Test; Asthma; Personality Development; Personality; Thematic Apperception Test; Disorders; Personality Differences

Mental health in relation to education - Miller, H. (BMJ: British Medical Journal, 1932)
General education conforms to the average normal child, but special cases require schools adapted to the individual. Attention should be given to phases of rapid development, where need of sleep is great and fatigue rapid. Sexual development should be watched and medical methods used to prevent masturbation and homosexuality. Great importance should be placed on the affective side of intellectual development and maladjustments detected. School hygiene should prevent schizophrenia, suicide, stammering, and delinquency. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: EDUCATION; MENTAL HYGIENE IN; HYGIENE; EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY; No terms assigned

Comments on Current Books and the Passing Scene - Berg, Irwin A. (Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1964)
Discusses topics and briefly notes books of interest to counselors. Issues discussed include a controversey involving the Educational Testing Service, which administered an experimental 284-item questionnaire to students in Montgomery Junior College (Maryland), among other institutions. Objections were raised when personal names and questions such as parents' political leanings were asked. Another topic in the news of interest to counselors is automation and the impact of a technology culture. Books noted include Taboo Topics (1963) edited by Norman L. Farberown. Topics include death fears, clients' sexual histories, homosexuality, suicide, peace research and parapsychological phenomena. Other books noted include Everett Lee Hunt's The Revolt of the College Intellectual (1963), Psychological Counseling in a Small College by Eugenia Hanfmann et al (1963), The Design of Electric Circuits in the Behavioral Sciences, (1963) by Tom N. Cornsweet, and Computer Simulation of Personality (1963), by Silvan Solomon Tomkins and Samuel Messick. Other publications noted include The MMPI: An Outline for General Clinical and Counseling Use, by Robert R. Carkhuff (1961), and Clinical Psychology by Normal D. Sundberg and Leona E. Tyler. Also noted are U.S. Public Health Service pamphlets Mental Disorders of the Young (1963) and Narcotic Drug Addiction (1963), Youth in Conflict by Bennetta Washington (1963), Work-Study Programs for Alienated Youth by George W. Burchill (1962), and Profiles of Church Youth by Merton P. Strommen (1963). (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: Passing Scene; technology culture; death fears; parapsychological phenomena; personal names; Public Health Service pamphlets Mental Disorders; Educational Testing Service; Psychological Counseling; Adolescent Development; Clinical Psychology; Colleges; Computer Simulation; Counseling; Counselors; Interests; Parapsychological Phenomena

Treatment of transsexualism - Hynie, J. (Ceskoslovenska Psychiatrie, 1969)
While there are few people suffering with transsexualism, regular psychotherapy is not effective, and these patients are often hurt by other people; particularly vulnerable are virile women, who tend to attempt suicide and automutilation. It is better to help them to adapt, by changing their name to one which could be either masculine or feminine. At times it is necessary to remove breasts in virile women, remove uterus, and prescribe androgen. With males estrogen may be indicated in order to supress erection and help development of breasts. Marriage for these people is not recommended. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: treatment of transsexualism; Androgens; Artificial Organs; Disorders of Sex Development; Estrogens; Female; Humans; Hysterectomy; Male; Marriage; Psychosexual Development; Suicide; Transsexualism; Sex; Treatment

AIDS and bereavement - Schoen, Kitsy; Schindelman, Ellie (Journal of Gay & Lesbian Psychotherapy, 1989)
Discusses ways in which the loss of someone to acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) or AIDS-related complex can affect bereavement. Information is provided on the normal grief process, and some of the more serious problems that can develop are described, including phobic responses, addictive behavior, clinical depression, or suicidal ideations. Suggestions for providing support to the bereaved include providing information, encouraging talk about feelings, and encouraging peer support. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: death from AIDS or ARC; bereavement; AIDS; Death and Dying; Grief

Violent sexual fantasies and sexual behavior - McCollaum, Bruce; Lester, David (Psychological Reports, 1994)
Masochistic and sadistic sexual fantasies were associated with coercive sexual behavior self-reported by 31 male and 31 female undergraduate students. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: masochistic & sadistic sexual fantasies & coercive sexual behavior; college students; Fantasy; Female; Humans; Male; Masochism; Sadism; Sex Factors; Sexual Behavior; Surveys and Questionnaires; Violence; Psychosexual Behavior; Sexual Masochism; Sexual Sadism; Coercion; Imagination

Three cases of AIDS-related psychiatric disorders - Rundell, James R.; Wise, Michael G.; Ursano, Robert J. (The American Journal of Psychiatry, 1986)
Presents 3 cases of patients in whom paranoia, organic brain syndrome, depression, or suicidal ideation was associated with either the possible or the actual diagnosis of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). Specifically, Ss include a 35-yr-old Black male homosexual with AIDS, a 37-yr-old White male of unspecified sexual orientation who had AIDS, and a 34-yr-old White heterosexual who demonstrated paranoid concern over exposure to the disease but was found to have not contracted the disease. The cases demonstrate that psychiatric illness may result from either AIDS-related organic brain syndromes or reaction to the diagnosis (including human T-lymphotropic virus type III [HTLV—III] testing) and psychosocial consequences of AIDS. (10 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: acquired immune deficiency syndrome & paranoia & organic brain syndrome & depression & suicidal ideation; 34–37 yr old males; Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome; Adult; Depression; Humans; Male; Mental Disorders; Neurocognitive Disorders; Paranoid Disorders; Suicide; Depression (Emotion); Immunologic Disorders; Organic Brain Syndromes; Paranoia (Psychosis); Suicide; Ideation; Mental Disorders

Suicide attempts in a female-to-male transsexual - Herschkowitz, Samuel; Dickes, Robert (The American Journal of Psychiatry, 1978)
Reports the case of a female-to-male transsexual who was treated surgically in order to prevent further suicide attempts and who was hospitalized 4 yrs after surgery because of another serious suicide attempt. This appears to be the first report of suicide attempts in a postoperative female-to-male transsexual. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: pre- & postoperative suicide attempts; female-to-male transsexuals; Adult; Female; Humans; Sex Factors; Suicide, Attempted; Transsexualism; Attempted Suicide; Case Report; Surgery; Transsexualism

Observations on suicide among hospitalized schizophrenic patients - Salama, Abd E.; Sizemore, David M. (Hospital & Community Psychiatry, 1982)
Studied 3 schizophrenic males (aged 24–27 yrs) who committed suicide, in an attempt to enhance the ability to assess the potential for suicide among hospitalized schizophrenics. Ss had a number of characteristics in common: They were diagnosed as having a schizoaffective illness, and they were unemployed, friendless, unhappily dependent on an overprotective family, sexually maladjusted, and full of fears of homosexuality. Ss committed suicide when they were closely observed and restricted. It is concluded that perhaps when therapists try to protect suicidal patients by confining them and taking the usual precautions against suicide, they, in fact, inhibit the patient's outward expression of hostility and enhance the likelihood that they will kill themselves. (9 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: suicide; hospitalized schizophrenic 24–27 yr old males; Adult; Hallucinations; Hospitalization; Humans; Male; Schizophrenia; Schizophrenic Psychology; Social Adjustment; Suicide; Suicide, Attempted; Client Characteristics; Hospitalized Patients; Schizophrenia; Suicide

Self-performed bilateral orchiectomy in transsexuals - Krieger, Marilyn J.; McAninch, Jack W.; Weimer, Sanford R. (The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, 1982)
Presents 3 cases of self-performed bilateral orchiectomy in male-to-female transsexuals. The Ss were not considered psychotic, although 2 admitted to past suicide attempts and psychiatric treatment. The Ss' histories and treatment are reviewed, and suggestions for diagnosis, management, and treatment planning are offered. (4 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: self performed bilateral orchiectomy; male-to-female transsexuals; Adult; Castration; Character; Humans; Male; Personality Disorders; Psychotherapy; Self Mutilation; Suicide, Attempted; Transsexualism; Self-Mutilation; Transsexualism

Review of International Journal of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Vol 11, 1985-1986 (Contemporary Psychology, 1986)
Reviews the book, International Journal of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Vol. 11, 1985-1986 edited by John Munder Ross (1985). This volume presents a broad spectrum of perspectives from within psychoanalysis. Major topics include transference, controversies in the field (e.g., projective identification, relationship between father and son, male homosexuality, anonymity of the analyst, adolescent developmental disorders, and suicide), interventions between children and parents, and, finally, the hospital experience. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: male homosexuality; adolescent developmental disorders; suicide; interventions; hospitals; psychoanalytic psychotherapy; Male Homosexuality; Psychoanalysis; Psychotherapy; Developmental Disabilities; Hospitals; Suicide

Profiles in Courage - Meadow, Arnold (Contemporary Psychology, 1966)
Reviews the book, Taboo Topics edited by Norman L. Farberow (see record [rid]1964-06942-000[/rid]). The taboo topics may be classified under two rubrics: those determined by prevalent theoretical fads in contemporary American psychology and those resulting from personal, social, and cultural values. The former category includes the chapters on parapsychology, graphology, religion, international affairs, and hypnosis, the latter, those on sexual behavior, death, and suicide. In collecting material on a group of research problems peculiarly sensitive to these influences, the author has made a notable contribution by alerting the research worker to the factors which might impair his objectivity. The authors' barbs are directed against the positivistic emphasis in American universities. Several of the authors point to the emotional resistance of the investigator as a factor inhibiting research. One of them describes the anxieties of the researcher investigating the dying patient. Similar reactions are enumerated in the chapters on homosexuality, sexual behavior and hypnosis. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: psychology; homosexuality; hypnosis; taboo topics; parapsychology; graphology; religion; international affairs; sexual behavior; death; suicide; Parapsychology; Psychosexual Behavior; Religion; Suicide; Taboos; Death and Dying; Homosexuality; Hypnosis; Psychology

The big lie - Gardner, Jo Ann E. (Contemporary Psychology, 1975)
Reviews the book, Sexual Suicide by George F. Gilder (1973). The author's book, Sexual Suicide, is a political and sexist book, masquerading as a social scientific study of contemporary problems. It is uncomfortable reading Virtually every line in it forces recognition of the appalling truth of the cultural devaluation of females. It has never been any different George Gilder is speaking from a background of 10,000 years of recorded history. He intends to keep women m their place. But it is also enlightening because it reveals the essential corruption of a clearly intelligent man and gifted writer who has taken up the cudgels in defense of white patriarchy and against those who challenge its tenets. Significantly, many of Gilder's most sex-belittling statements are reserved for males. Throughout the book, Gilder's main thesis is that men are insecure, sexually driven animals who must, in order to be socialized, subordinate their animal natures to the 'sexual constitution' of presently organized society in order that civilization may survive. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2017 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: sexual suicide; animal natures; contemporary problems; human sex differences; Human Sex Differences; Psychosexual Behavior; Sexism; Society; History

Sexual identity and confusion - Wolper, Meryl L.; Zitter, Sherry M. (American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 1987)
Comments on an article by I. J. Chasnoff et al. (see record [rid]2013-42747-009[/rid]). The article by I. J. Chasnoff et al erroneously describes 'confusion in sexual identity ' in each of the three cases presented. The term 'sexual identity confusion' properly refers to confusion about one 's gender, i.e. whether one is male or female . It became clear that the authors were actually referring to sexual orientation, or whether one is attracted to one's own or the opposite sex. This article assumes that homosexuality is pathological and therefore a relevant consideration in discussing the facts of the case. No one would think it was important if all the women were Jewish or had blond hair. The term 'homosexual ideation' referred to in Case One likens homosexuality to suicide, a pathological manifestation of a psychiatric illness. The bisexual woman in the third case was labeled as sexually confused, with no evidence of this. Apparently the mere fact of her bisexuality was considered confusing by the authors. This suggests some connection between one 's object choice and a DSM-III diagnostic category. It is appalling to us that an article with this level of homophobia would be published by a journal that professes to be progressive. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2017 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: maternal neonatal incest; child abuse; sexual abuse; sexual partners; sexual identity; Adult; Bisexuality; Female; Gender Identity; Homosexuality; Humans; Identification (Psychology); Incest; Infant, Newborn; Child Abuse; Incest; Mothers; Neonatal Period; Gender Identity; Sexual Abuse; Sexual Partners

Contracting AIDS as a means of committing suicide - Frances, Richard J.; Wikstrom, Thomas; Alcena, Valiere (The American Journal of Psychiatry, 1985)
Presents the case of a homosexual alcoholic male with anxiety disorder. The S, who had made several suicide attempts, sought out sexual partners with acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) to contract the disease. The S died from AIDS. It is suggested that AIDS prevention programs need to consider how unconscious, self-destructive, and murderous impulses can interact with the availability of contracting or spreading a lethal communicable illness. (1 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: contracting acquired immune deficiency syndrome as means of committing suicide; homosexual alcoholic male with anxiety disorder; Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome; Alcoholism; Depression; Homosexuality; Humans; Male; Suicide; Suicide, Attempted; Immunologic Disorders; Male Homosexuality; Self-Destructive Behavior; Suicide; Alcoholism; Anxiety; Case Report

Review of Psychopathology and Psychotherapy in Homosexuality - LoPiccolo, Joseph (Contemporary Psychology, 1989)
Reviews the book, Psychopathology and Psychotherapy in Homosexuality edited by Michael W. Ross (1988). In this book, the 12 papers focus on psychotherapeutic considerations when treating homosexuality, alcoholism, sexual problems among gay men, homophobia, suicide, cross-cultural issues in homosexuality, adolescent homosexuality, and personality disorders in relation to homosexuality. As is unfortunately too common in edited volumes, the quality of the papers varies considerably. Most of the papers are relatively brief, and for that reason they do not always provide an adequate review of existing research on the topic being considered. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: psychopathology; psychotherapy; homosexuality; alcoholism; sexual problems; gay men; homophobia; suicide; cross-cultural issues; personality disorders; Homosexuality (Attitudes Toward); Male Homosexuality; Psychopathology; Psychotherapy; Alcoholism; Cross Cultural Differences; Personality Disorders; Suicide

TYPOLOGY OF HOMOSEXUALS FROM A NOSOLOGICAL, CLINICAL POINT OF VIEW AND THE QUESTION OF PREVENTION AND REHABILITATION - Schumann, Hans J. (Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, 1967)
HOMOSEXUALS WERE CLASSIFIED INTO 14 TYPES. IT IS SUGGESTED THAT SEX EDUCATION CAN ELIMINATE FACTORS PREDISPOSING TO HOMOSEXUALITY. REHABILITATION SEEKS, THROUGH INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP THERAPY, TO FOSTER MATURE ATTITUDES AND SELF-ESTEEM AND THE ABANDONMENT OF SUICIDAL AND SELF-DESTRUCTIVE ATTITUDES. (PAPER PRESENTED AT THE 7TH INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF PSYCHOTHERAPY, WIESBADEN, 1967.) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2017 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: TYPOLOGY & SEX EDUCATION & REHABILITATION; Classification (Cognitive Process); Homosexuality; Psychodiagnosis; Psychodiagnostic Typologies; Taxonomies; Rehabilitation; Sex

Review of The help book - Rosen, Gerald M. (Contemporary Psychology, 1980)
Reviews the book, The help book by J. L. Barkas (1979). This is not intended to be another do-it-yourself therapy program. Instead it is a directory for locating organizations, and agencies that offer assistance in dealing with almost every kind of problem. The book covers an almost bewildering array of problems including crime prevention, education, family planning, gay liberation, housing, and gun control-to name but a few. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: crime prevention; education; family planning; gay liberation; organizations; Assistance (Social Behavior); Organizations; Crime Prevention; Family Planning; Homosexuality

Review of A history of penal methods: Criminals, witches, lunatics - Oppenheimer, H. (The Sociological Review, 1914)
Reviews the book, A History of Penal Methods: Criminals, Witches, Lunatics by George Ives (1914). This volume which, as the author repeatedly states, is the fruit of years of study, is of no great value to the sociologist, the criminologist, the lawyer, or the legislator, for whom it was probably never intended, though it will undoubtedly appeal to a certain section of lay readers. It contains hardly one original idea or suggestion, rhetorical efforts and appeals to the emotions taking the place of argument throughout its pages. Again, in the presentation of the subject, witchcraft, lunacy, punishment of inanimate things, of animals, and of corpses, suicide, and homosexuality are unduly enlarged upon at the expense of the more important subjects,—not, however, without a definite end. Whilst making every allowance for this conscious self-limitation, it cannot be said that his list of authors, however long, represents a very good selection. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2017 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: criminals; witches; lunatics; homosexuality; Criminal Behavior; Homosexuality; Mental Disorders; Witchcraft

Klinefelter's syndrome and mental disorders - Blanc, M.; de Boucaud, D. (Annales Médico-Psychologiques, 1968)
Presents a clinical histological and chromosomal review of the syndrome and reports a 28-yr-old male karyotype of 47 chromosomes. Social maladjustment, impotence, and passive homosexuality led to a syphilitic infection and subsequent hospitalization due to suicide attempts. Rorschach testing revealed an essentially hysterical personality structure. The literature showed that these Ss generally have subnormal IQs, weak libidos primarily of a heterosexual polarity, dependent and immature personalities, with the most serious behavior problems attributed to situational rather than genetic influences. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: Klinefelter's syndrome & mental disorder; case report; Mental Retardation; Case Report; Mental Disorders; Intellectual Development Disorder