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Volume 166 - Issue 3 - March 1995

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Papers

  • Characteristics of Fire-Setters a Study and Proposed Multiaxial Psychiatric Classification

  • B. K. Puri, R. Baxter, C. C. Cordess
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    02 January 2018, pp. 393-396
  • Background

    The study set out to review the relationship between mental disorder and fire-setting.

    Method

    Sociodemographic, psychiatric, and medical data were retrospectively obtained from case notes of a group of 36 fire-setters referred to the North West Thames Forensic Psychiatry Service over a four-year period.

    Results

    Of the sample, 28% were female and one-third had no mental illness; 28% had a previous medical history of possible relevance. Psychoactive substance abuse was common. There was a significant disturbance of interpersonal relationships. Eighty-five per cent lived alone, and 44% of the female fire-setters had a history of sexual abuse.

    Conclusion

    On the basis of this study, a multiaxial classification system of fire-setting is proposed.

Correspondence

Columns

  • Economics of treatment of depression

  • N. Freemantle, A. House, J. Mason, F. Song, T. Sheldon
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    02 January 2018, p. 397
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  • Tourette's syndrome and psychiatric disorders

  • D. E. Comings
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    02 January 2018, p. 399
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  • ECT seizure duration and efficacy

  • W. F. Daniel
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    02 January 2018, pp. 399-400
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  • Toxic serotonin syndrome or extrapyramidal side-effects?

  • S. M. Dursun, J. G. Burke, M. A. Reveley
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    02 January 2018, pp. 401-402
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  • Suicide prevention in Gotland

  • A. J. D. Macdonald
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    02 January 2018, p. 402
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A Hundred Years Ago

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  • Obituary: Daniel Hack Tuke

  • Henry Rollin
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    02 January 2018, pp. 403-405
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Books Reconsidered

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  • The Origins of Love and Hate: Ian D. Suttie

  • Penelope Campling, Mary Morton
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    02 January 2018, pp. 406-408

  • Issues of love and hate underpin our work as psychiatrists and psychotherapists, informing our attitudes and decisions. Stories of love and hate abound with our patients, perhaps even more starkly now than in the clinics of Suttie's day, with increasingly common revelations of childhood physical and sexual abuse, often perpetrated by parents. Helping patients to deal with extremes of love and hate is fundamental to the process as well as the content of therapy, and even the most biologically-minded colleagues must at times wonder why particular patients sabotage every attempt to care for them, why some patients attract superhuman efforts from nursing staff, and why some patients seem to get under our skin when others leave us feeling cold and unsympathetic.

Book Reviews

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