The role of psychiatry in predicting, diagnosing and treating the many and terrible forms of
violence in our society continues to be a topic of intense interest within both the public and …

The 1984 Attorney General's Task Force Report on Domestic Violence attested: Anyone who
lives in a violent home experiences an essential loss. The one place on earth where they …

Hospital and Community Psychiatry March1994 Vol. 45 No. 3 285 advocacy in medicine.
Wissow never misses a chance to underline the im-portance ofhow the doctor approaches …

Violence runs like a bright and discordant thread through the fabric of society. In history,
mythology and religion, politics, media, sports and entertainment, it is simultaneously …

PROFESSOR TCN GIBBENS: Mr. President, ladies and gentlemen, A good deal of what I
want to say tonight will be familiar to a good many of the doctors, but this is the Medico-Legal …

A study covering three generations of families of abused children supports the themes that
violence breeds violence and that a child who experiences violence as a child has the …

Describes indicators of emotional, verbal, physical, and sexual child abuse for physicians. In
suspected cases of abuse and neglect, the physician should (1) admit the child to the …

This book with twenty-three authors is the contribution from the Department of Psychiatry at
Stanford University. Members of this Department formed a Committee on Violence on the …

Dr. Brunstetter: We've had to struggle to a considerable degree during the last year with
violence and threatened violence on the unit. In many ways that's not surprising. The …