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Psychiatric comorbidity in older adults with bipolar disorder
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2006-06)
Introduction Comorbidity patterns and correlates among older adults with bipolar disorder (BPD) are not well understood. The aim of this analysis was to examine the prevalence of comorbid PTSD and other anxiety disorders, ...
On the difficulty of defining disease: A Darwinian perspective
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 2001-03)
Most attempts to craft a definition of disease seem to have tackled two tasks simultaneously: 1) trying to create a series of inclusion and exclusion criteria that correspond to medical usage of the word disease and 2) ...
Selling Sanity Through Gender: The Psychodynamics of Psychotropic Advertising
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Human Sciences Press, Inc. ; Springer Science+Business Media, 2003-06)
This paper provides a brief visual history of the ways women patients, and specifically women patients whose marital status is identified in conjunction with their “illness,” have been constructed as abnormal in the images ...
Forgiveness and Health: Age Differences in a U.S. Probability Sample
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 2001-10)
Forgiveness is a variable closely related to religiousness and spirituality that has been hypothesized to be protective of mental and physical health. However, we do not clearly understand which aspects of forgiveness are ...
Resisting Gendered Smoking Pressures: Critical Consciousness as a Correlate of Women's Smoking Status
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Springer Science + Business Media, Inc., 2005-08)
Gender is one of the social structures, along with social class and ethnicity, that shapes women's smoking behaviors. We examined how different responses to gender pressures (internalization and resistance) relate to ...
Introduction
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Human Sciences Press, Inc. ; Springer Science+Business Media, 2003-06)
Race-Related Correlates of Young Adults' Subjective Well-Being
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 2001-01)
We investigated how often young adults worry about race relationsand whether they perceive that white/black relations have beendeteriorating. We also explored the relationships betweenrace-related worry and pessimism, and ...