The Mosaic of Contemporary Psychiatry in Perspective

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Front Matter....Pages 1-2
LJ West’s Place in Social and Community Psychiatry....Pages 3-13
Linking the Public Mental Health System With Academia (UCLA)....Pages 14-23
Psychiatry and Legal Regulation: Thirty Years of Beneficence or Three Decades of Bedevilment?....Pages 24-35
Human Sexuality and Law: Three Decades of Transition....Pages 36-43
Reflections on Psychiatry and the Death Penalty....Pages 44-52
Violence, Personality, and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: Developmental and Political Perspectives....Pages 53-65
Medical Ethics....Pages 66-75
Front Matter....Pages 77-78
Louis Jolyon West and the Ecological Model of Psychiatric Disorders: A Lecture in Medical History—October 6, 2024....Pages 79-88
Psychohistorical View of Transcultural Psychiatry....Pages 89-98
Contemporary Psychiatry: Racial Perspectives on the Past and Future....Pages 99-109
Mental Health Among Hispanic Americans: Four Decades of Research....Pages 110-120
Jikuri, the Tarahumara Peyote Cult: An Interpretation....Pages 121-129
Cults, Coercion, and Contumely....Pages 130-142
Front Matter....Pages 143-144
Advances in Biological Psychiatry....Pages 145-162
Positron Emission Tomography Studies of Brain Function in Depression and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder....Pages 163-172
On the Interaction of Genetic and Epigenetic Factors During Language Development: A Quantitative Histological Study....Pages 173-181
LSD and Psychiatry: A Personal Trip....Pages 182-190
Hallucinations and West’s Perceptual Release Theory....Pages 191-199
Sensory Deprivation and Sensory Isolation Research, and Political Torture: A 35-Year Critical Retrospective....Pages 200-210
The Dynamics of the Organism: Can Mind and Body Be Integrated?....Pages 211-222
Front Matter....Pages 223-224
The Anxiety Disorders: A Review....Pages 225-237
Dissociation in the 1990s....Pages 238-246
Reflections on Multiple Personality Disorder: A View From the Looking Glass of Hypnosis Past....Pages 247-260
From West to Mesmer....Pages 261-268
Schizophrenia: From Institutionalization to Community Reintegration....Pages 269-280
Suicide and Violence Reduction: Research and Publicity....Pages 281-290
The Psychiatric Subspecialty of Sleep Disorders Medicine....Pages 291-305
Consultation—Liaison Psychiatry....Pages 306-312
Front Matter....Pages 313-313
Children of Alcoholics: Are They Different....Pages 315-327
Neuropsychological Deficits in Alcoholics: Cognitive and Motivational Factors....Pages 328-337
Substance Abuse....Pages 338-346
Nicotine: Medication or Scourge?....Pages 347-359
Front Matter....Pages 361-362
Professional Socialization of the Physician: Implications for Emotional Impairment or Well-Being....Pages 363-371
Teaching Psychiatry to Medical Students: A Pocketful of Wry....Pages 372-380
Psychiatric Education: With Some Remarks on the “West”ern Style....Pages 381-391
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: Building the Data Base....Pages 392-402
Building Research Careers in Child Psychiatry....Pages 403-412
Geriatric Psychiatry....Pages 413-422
Toward Integration of Clinical and Policy Perspectives in Mental Health Services Research....Pages 423-434
Back Matter....Pages 435-448