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  • Copying letters to patients

  • Bryan Lask
  • Journal:
    Psychiatric Bulletin / Volume 28 / Issue 11 / November 2004
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    02 January 2018, p. 426
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    November 2004
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  • Pervasive refusal syndrome

  • Bryan Lask
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    Advances in Psychiatric Treatment / Volume 10 / Issue 2 / March 2004
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    02 January 2018, pp. 153-159
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    March 2004
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  • Pervasive refusal syndrome is a severe, pervasive and life-threatening disorder. Most commonly seen in girls between the ages of 8 and 15, although also affecting boys and younger age groups, it is characterised by a profound and pervasive refusal to eat, drink, talk, walk and engage in any form of self-care. A determined resistance to treatment is a striking component of the condition. The causes are unclear, but likely to be complex, multiple and associated with a sense of hopelessness. Treatment needs to be comprehensive and is based on supporting the child in recovering at her own pace, while ensuring physical safety and well-being. The prognosis is good, provided treatment is appropriate, but recovery tends to take a year or more.

  • 17 - Eating disorders

  • from Part 4 - Psychiatric disorders
  • Edited by Monique Ernst, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, Judith M. Rumsey, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Maryland
  • Foreword by Joseph T. Coyle
  • Book:
    Functional Neuroimaging in Child Psychiatry
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    06 January 2010
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    12 October 2000, pp 298-312

  • Summary

    The range of eating disorders in children includes selective eating, food avoidance emotional disorder, functional dysphagia, and pervasive refusal syndrome. This chapter provides background information, including theories of etiology concerning early-onset anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa. The majority of physical changes in anorexia nervosa are predominantly related to the effects of starvation and dehydration. Herzog reported that major depressive disorder was the most prevalent comorbid disorder, occurring in 37% of patients with anorexia nervosa. The physical manifestations of bulimia nervosa are initially less dramatic than those of anorexia nervosa because weight is usually maintained within normal range. A number of other eating disorders are identified in children. Other eating disorders include food avoidance emotional disorder, selective eating and pervasive refusal syndrome. A number of computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) studies in female adult and adolescent patients with anorexia nervosa have shown structural abnormalities in the brain.

  • Family psychiatry and family therapy-Letter by Bryan Lask

  • Bryan Lask
  • Journal:
    Psychiatric Bulletin / Volume 15 / Issue 3 / March 1991
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    02 January 2018, p. 171
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    March 1991
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  • Family therapy research: a challenge and a proposal

  • Bryan Lask
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    Psychiatric Bulletin / Volume 12 / Issue 11 / November 1988
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    02 January 2018, pp. 489-490
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    November 1988
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  • The question is often asked: “Does family therapy work?” This is an important but useless question. It is important because an enormous amount of time, energy and money is put into the clinical practice of family therapy. It is practised in every continent; there are many training courses and qualifications in very many countries, and there are over 40 journals devoted to families and family therapy. Yet there is a healthy and justified scepticism. So yes, we ought to ask whether it works.

  • Psychiatric Aspects of Diabetes Mellitus

  • Bryan Lask
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    The British Journal of Psychiatry / Volume 138 / Issue 5 / May 1981
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    29 January 2018, p. 440
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    May 1981
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  • Short-term Psychiatric Sequelae to Therapeutic Termination of Pregnancy

  • Bryan D. Lask
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    The British Journal of Psychiatry / Volume 126 / Issue 2 / February 1975
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    29 January 2018, pp. 173-177
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    February 1975

  • During 1973 there were 169,362 abortions notified to the Chief Medical Officer at the Department of Health. In a leading article the British Medical Journal (1973) acknowledged that ‘bald statistics cannot help to answer the important question of the nature of the physical and emotional sequelae of termination of pregnancy’. The article called for careful prospective studies to assess such sequelae. This paper is a report of a short-term prospective study of the psychiatric sequelae.

  • The Royal College of Psychiatrists' Memorandum on the Abortion Act in Practice

  • Bryan Lask
  • Journal:
    The British Journal of Psychiatry / Volume 121 / Issue 560 / July 1972
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    29 January 2018, pp. 115-116
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    July 1972
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