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Guest Editorial
Women’s Mental Health: Focus on Sexual and Reproductive Issues
Ruth Dickson
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In Review
Female Sexual Disorders: Psychiatric Aspects
Robert Taylor Segraves
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Managing Bipolar Disorder During Pregnancy: Weighing the Risks and Benefits
Adele C Viguera, Lee S Cohen, Ross J Baldessarini, Ruta Nonacs

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Review Papers
The Role of Estrogen in Schizophrenia: Implications for Schizophrenia Practice Guidelines for Women

Sophie Grigoriadis, Mary V Seeman

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Should Psychologists Be Granted Prescription Privileges? A Review of the Prescription Privilege Debate for Psychiatrists
Kim L Lavoie, Richard P Fleet

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Original Research
Experiments In Change: Pretrial Diversion of Offenders With Mental Illness

R S Swaminath, J D Mendonca, C Vidal, P Chapman

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Prevalence and Correlates of Elder Abuse and Neglect in a Geriatric Psychiatry Service
Stephen Vida, Richard C Monks, Pascale Des Rosiers

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Brief Communciation
Occupational Effects of Stalking
Karen M Abrams, Gail Erlick Robinson

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Gender-Role Conflict and Suicidal Behaviour in Adolescent Girls
Leora Pinhas, Harriet Weaver, Pier Bryden, Nagi Ghabbour, Brenda Toner

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Book Reviews
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Comprehensive Care of Schizophrenia: A Textbook of Clinical Management

Drug Addiction and Drug Policy: The Struggle to Control Dependence

At the Side of Torture Survivors: Treating a Terrible Assault on Human Dignity


Letters to the Editor

Gabapentin Treatment of Impulsive-Aggressive Behaviour

Assessing and Managing Compulsive Scratching in Schizophrenia With Chronic Renal Failure

Using the Rating Scale for Psychotic Symptoms to Characterize Delusions Expressed in a Schizophrenia Patient With “Internet Psychosis”

The Ward Changes Address: An Entire Hospital Department Moves to a Modern Building

Sildenafil Citrate for Female Orgasmic Disorder

Suicide Among Immigrants to Canada From the Indian Subcontinent

Fire Fetishism in a Female Arsonist?

Should Psychologists Be Granted Prescription Privileges? A Review of the Prescription Privilege Debate for Psychiatrists



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Manuscript received June 2001, revised November 2001, and accepted April 2002.

1 Psychologist, Montreal Heart Institute and Sacre-Coeur Hospital, Montreal, Quebec.

2 Associate Researcher, Montreal Heart Institute; Director of Clinical Research, Department of Psychiatry, Sacre-Coeur Hospital; Adjunct Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Quebec at Montreal, Montreal, Quebec.

Address for correspondence: Dr Kim L Lavoie, Montreal Heart Institute, Research Center, 5000 Belanger East, Montreal, QC H1T 1C8

e-mail: kiml_lavoie@yahoo.ca