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Volume 166 - Issue 4 - April 1995

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  • Predictors of psychiatric morbidity in cancer patients

  • A.V.M. Hughson
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    02 January 2018, p. 538
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  • Worcester Development Project and Powick Hospital

  • P. Hall
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    02 January 2018, pp. 538-539
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  • Effectiveness and efficiency in psychiatry

  • S. Wessely, Clive Adams
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    02 January 2018, p. 539
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  • Statistical design, analysis and correspondence

  • B. S. Everitt
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    02 January 2018, p. 540
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  • Predictors of outcome in the behavioural treatment of OCD

  • D.J. Castle
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    02 January 2018, pp. 540-541
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  • Cognitive therapy for panic

  • I. Marks, M. Başoglu, H. Noshirvani
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    02 January 2018, pp. 541-542
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  • Home-based versus in/out-patient care for people with serious mental illness

  • J. van Os, K. McKenzie, K. Gilvarry, T. Fahy
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    02 January 2018, pp. 543-544
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  • Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder

  • Frank Tallis
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    02 January 2018, pp. 546-550

  • Obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) has recently undergone a dramatic change in status. Once regarded as a rare example of the neuroses, it now occupies a central position in contemporary psychiatry. The reasons for this renaissance in interest are relatively easy to describe. Firstly, results from the National Institute of Mental Health Epidemiological Catchment Area (ECA) survey indicated that the lifetime prevalence of OCD was 2.5% (1 in 40 people) and the 6-month point prevalence was 1.5%, making it the fourth most common psychiatric disorder in the US (Myers et al, 1984; Robins et al, 1984; Karno et al, 1988). If these figures are applicable to the UK, there may be up to 1 million sufferers. Secondly, the therapeutic efficacy of the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) and consistent findings from a number of neuroimaging investigations have stimulated interest in understanding the biological substrates of OCD. Finally, the traditional behavioural account of OCD has been elaborated, with greater emphasis given to cognition and cognitive processes; this revised anatomy of obsessions has, predictably, stimulated the development of specific cognitive therapy strategies.

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  • BJP volume 166 issue 4 Cover and Front matter

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    02 January 2018, pp. f1-f5
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  • BJP volume 166 issue 4 Cover and Back matter

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    02 January 2018, pp. b1-b3
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