Attachment: Back to Basics
This paper presents the essential features of the survival strategy Attachment: its biological, psychological and social features, adaptive and maladaptive manifestations, and treatment for it
Attachment and its Ripples, 3d National Conference on Mental Health Aspects of Persons Affected by Family Separation
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Loss and trauma. Seminar to Victorian Advanced Training Program in the Psychotherapies Alfred Hospital Melbourne
Adaptive and maladaptive biopsychosocial responses to loss and bereavement are described. Traumatic loss leads to maladaptive griefs and depression. Other survival strategies from traumatic situationsleave their
Loss and its consequences. Talk to Australasian Society for Traumatic Stress Studies
Headings are provided for the survival strategy Adaptation, starting with appraisals of loss, biological psychological and social adaptive and maladaptive stress responses including grief and
Loss, grief, traumatic loss and depression. Talk to Victorian Branch Royal Australasian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists
Characteristics of and connections between loss, grief, traumatic loss and depression are explored through clinical cases and personal history. Suppressed grief and traumatic loss may
Illness, Loss, Depression in Older People and Their Management. Talk Alfred Hospital
Principles of management of depressed hospital patients are: recognition and exploration of their state; non-specific treatment eg kindness; symptomatic treatment eg drugs for sleeplessness ;
Death and the family. Patient Management 4:11-25
Death in the family is the closest experience to one’s own death. Disruption of a close family bond leads to much heightened morbidity and mortality.
Transgenerational transmission of grief using the Holocaust as an example. National Association for Loss And Grief Conference
Some Holocaust losses were too much to grieve. It might be up to the next generation to do so. But this may be especially difficult,
Issues with dying patients. Med J Aust 1:433-437
Doctors may deny that their patients are dying and attempt omnipotent means to keep them alive. Fear of death in both patients and doctors resonates
Review of Issues with dying patients. Comment reagir vis-avis les mourants. Medecine Moderne. 34:1000-1001. Modern Medicine August
This is a review (in French) of the article Issues with dying patients. Document: View Document
Management of the dying patient. Patient Management 3:7-9
Patients at the nadir of helplessness and doctors at the zenith of their powers may be out of step when it comes to dying patients.
Psychotherapy in the dying and those with incipient bereavement. Aust J Psychotherapy. 3:64-75
A clinical case illustrates that psychotherapy with the dying and their families can be therapeutic for all involved. It may allow love and loss to
Healing the mind is about more than just taking medicine
This paper examines the benefit or lack of it of antidepressants. Are they more effective than placebos, though bearing in mind that placebos can be
