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Via F Sforza 35, 20122, Milan, Italy Received 18 March 1991 and in revised form 12 September 1991. Accepted 28 October 1991 G Vallar Correspondence to: A 49 year old right handed housekeeper with five years of schooling was admitted to hospital for suspected pulmonary thromboembolism and right inferior limb thrombophlebitis. She had had no previous psychiatic or neurological disease. On admission the patient was treated with heparin, amoxicillin and ranitidine. Two days later she suddenly

jobs that are not very stressful because mentally-sick people, when they have too much stress, they can get sick again and that makes, like going to the hospital and spending a lot of money that the taxpayers are paying, you know, and it's, one day in the hospital is a lot of money for one bed there. So we would like to avoid going to the hospital, feel good about ourselves, but we accept that we, I mean I accept that I am a little sick and I know I cannot take up the heavy jobs, but I would like

11). Moscicki EK. Epidemiology of suicidal behavior. In : Silverman MM, Maris RW. Suicide prevention : toward the year 2000. New York (Etats-Unis ´ d’Amerique), Guilford, 1985 :22–35. Stoudemire A et al. The economic burden of depression. General Hospital Psychiatry, 1986, 8 :387–394. Minois G. History of suicide : voluntary death in Western culture. Baltimore, Maryland (Etats-Unis ´ d’Amerique), Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. Shneidman E. Definition of suicide. New York ´ (Etats-Unis d’Amerique)

suivants : seclusion ou restraint. Les documents ont été analysés par les membres du groupe d'experts pour extraire les critères de qualité proposés par les différents auteurs. À l'exception des recommandations pour la pratique clinique de l'American Psychiatric Association (APA) (11), les différents articles contenaient très peu de critères explicites. Aucun audit clinique n'a été retrouvé parmi de nombreux articles qui décrivent les pratiques d'isolement sans les comparer à un référentiel. Cette liste

developed extreme anxiety, OCD symptoms and mild tics. By the end of December his behavior became uncontrollable. His separation anxiety was so extreme that he attempted to jump out of the moving car on the way to school. Patient was admitted to a mental hospital for several weeks and was treated with numerous medications but improved only slightly and upon the discharge was not able to return to school. In January 2005 patient's mother contacted our offices via e-mail and following several communication

consequences : the children were denied a knowledge of the Aboriginal customs so they fitted into neither white nor Indegenous society, they went through lasting psychological and emotional damages, a high proportion of them are either in psychiatric hospitals or in prisons. It became a public knowledge in the 1990s. Until then, white Australia ignored what was going on. In 1995 Sir Ronald Wilson and Mick Dodson led a report, National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander

Mme Stephanie Wilson Agente de programme — Unité de la santé mentale Division des soins et des questions de santé Direction générale de la promotion et des programmes de la santé Santé Canada Les auteurs désirent également remercier l’American Psychiatric Association de leur avoir permis de reproduire les critères diagnostiques pour les troubles anxieux du Manuel diagnostique et statistique des troubles mentaux, quatrième édition. Des remerciements détaillés figurent à l’annexe 2 du présent rapport

disposal and also propose a psychological therapy. The problem of this kind of foundation is that they do not have place where their patients could live during the time of their treatment. In France, many hard-drugs takers even are treated in psychiatric hospitals among schizophrenics or paranoids. Even if that is necessary in some extreme cases, that is absolutely not a good solution for them. By creating specialized institutions or subsidizing existing foundations like the UFATT, it would be possible

de la Santé de l’Alberta 10030-107th, 4e étage Edmonton (Alberta) T5J 3E4 Dr Bruce Ferguson Chef, Département de psychologie Institut Clarke 250 College Street Toronto (Ontario) M5T 1R8 Dr Solomon Hirsch Département de psychiatrie Victoria General Hospital 1278 Tower Road Halifax (Nouvelle-Écosse) B3H 2Y9 M. Carl Lakaski Expert-conseil Division de la santé mentale Santé Canada Immeuble Jeanne Mance Pré Tunney Ottawa (Ontario) K1A 1B4 r M. Thomas Lips Expert-conseil Division de la santé mentale

général de compréhension. Le WAIS est le test d’intelligence générale le plus utilisé pour les adultes. Il a été développé à partir du projet de l'échelle de Bellevue-Wechsler, établi en 1939 par David Wechsler, alors psychiatre au Bellevue Psychiatric Hospital de Baltimore. Parmi les tests intellectuels, nous trouvons aussi les tests de connaissances. Ils mesurent les acquis individuels dans un domaine précis : français, mathématiques, informatique, électronique, mécanique… Il en existe une multitude