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Looking Back, Moving Forward
Quentin Rae-Grant
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Original Research
Intramuscular Olanzapine and Intramuscular Haloperidol in Acute Schizophrenia: Antipsychotic Efficacy and Extrapyramidal Safety During the First 24 Hours of Treatment
Padraig Wright, Stacy R Lindborg, Martin Birkett, Karena Meehan, Barry Jones, Karla Alaka, Iris Ferchland-Howe, Anne Pickard, Cindy C Taylor, John Roth, John Battaglia, István Bitter, Guy Chouinard, Philip LP Morris, Alan Breier
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EEG Abnormalities and Outcome in First-Episode Psychosis
Rahul Manchanda, Ashok Malla, Rajendra Harricharan, Leonardo Cortese, Jatinder Takhar
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Impact of Antidepressant Side Effects on Adolescent Quality of Life
Amy H Cheung, Anthony J Levitt, John P Szalai
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Violence by Psychiatric Patients: The Impact of Archival Measurement Source on Violence Base Rates and Risk Assessment Accuracy
Kevin S Douglas, James R Ogloff
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Medicated Anxious Children: Characteristics and Cognitive-Behavioural Treatment Response
Vitaly Liashko, Katharina Manassis
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Review Paper
From Chlorpromazine to Clozapine—Antipsychotic Adverse Effects and the Clinician’s Dilemma
Sabina Abidi, Sreenivasa M Bhaskara
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Research Methods in Psychiatry
Unicorns Do Exist: A Tutorial on “Proving” the Null Hypothesis
David L Streiner
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Brief Communication
Association of Substance Abuse and Depression Among Adolescent Psychiatric Inpatients
Carla Kmett Danielson, James C Overholser, Zeeshan A Butt
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Book Reviews
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Drugs and Addictive Behaviour.
Reviewed by
Nady el-Guebaly, MD, FRCPC

Evidence and Experience in Psychiatry. Volume 5. Bipolar Disorder.
Reviewed by
Verinder Sharma, MB, BS, FRCPC

Letters to the Editor
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Re: Unfree Associations: Inside Psychoanalytic Institutes

Reply: Unfree Associations: Inside Psychoanalytic Institutes

Improving the Mood Disorder Questionnaire to Detect Bipolar II Disorder

Mnemonic for the Diagnosis of Hypomania Associated with Bipolar II Disorder

Aripiprazole-Induced Improvement in Tardive Dyskinesia

Dependent Personality Disorder as a Marker of “Battered Husband Syndrome”: A Case Exemplar

Visually Enhanced Psychosexual Therapy (VEST) in a Multicultural Community

Letters to the Editor

Reply: Unfree Associations: Inside Psychoanalytic Institutes

Dear Editor:

Dr Frayn is critical of me for being the messenger of Kirsner’s concerns and criticisms about psychoanalytic institutes; he apparently takes exception to my reading of Kirsner’s description. I do not believe that my review was one-sided, as Dr Frayn indicated. In suggesting that the author might have compared psycho- analytic institutes with other institutions, I was implying that the former might not suffer by the comparison. I also pointed out that Kirsner was aware of positive qualities in the central figures but focused on activities illustrating less admirable characteristics. I indicated that this text is extremely well documented and that Kirsner’s reporting appears balanced, fair, and objective. As well, in the concluding chapter, Kirsner offers constructive opinions about how psychoanalytic institutions need to change. Dr Frayn may well be correct in suggesting that many of the shortcomings Kirsner describes cross the boundaries of most, if not all, professional groups. This does not invalidate analysis of the groups Kirsner describes. In fairness to Dr Frayn, Kirsner certainly devotes much (in my opinion, too much) space to describing the failures of the organizations in question. I cannot agree that this necessarily does a disservice to many and fails to enlighten those who wish to avoid the mistakes of the past. It may be painful to read about such serious difficulties in respected professional organizations. However, in my opinion, uncovering these difficulties is analogous to uncovering one’s personal difficulties in psychoanalysis and is necessary for improvements to be made.

Paul Steinberg, MD, FRCPC
Edmonton, Alberta