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Instruments for the assessment of childhood trauma in adultsCarmella A Roy
SMBD Jewish General Hospital, Psychiatry Department, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
J Nerv Ment Dis 192:343-51. 2004..A few instruments used to measure retrospective childhood trauma are particularly useful for systematic research in adult psychiatric disorders...- Predictors of treatment duration and retention in a study of long-term dynamic psychotherapy: childhood adversity, adult personality, and diagnosisJ Christopher Perry
McGill University and Sir Mortimer B Davis Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, QC, Canada
J Psychiatr Pract 13:221-32. 2007..It remains to be seen whether longer durations of treatments are associated with respectively greater improvement, other things being equal, and whether these findings generalize to other types of treatment... 
The measurement of interview structure in five types of psychiatric and psychotherapeutic interviewsStephen M Beck
Depression Research Clinic, Institute of Community and Family Psychiatry, Sir Mortimer B Davis Jewis General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Psychiatry 71:219-33. 2008..Further research is needed to examine how these measures apply to other interview settings, such as psychoanalytic or cognitive-behavioral treatments, in the social sciences...- Impulsive phenomena, the impulsive character (der Triebhafte Charakter) and DSM personality disordersJ Christopher Perry
The Institute of Community and Family Psychiatry, Sir Mortimer B Davis Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec Canada
J Pers Disord 25:586-606. 2011..Our findings bear striking similarities to Reich's (1925/1975) descriptions of the impulsive character... - Defense mechanisms in schizotypal, borderline, antisocial, and narcissistic personality disordersJ Christopher Perry
Department of Psychiatry at McGill University
Psychiatry 76:32-52. 2013..Overall, differential relationships between specific defenses and personality disorder types were largely consistent with the literature, and consistent with the importance that the treatment literature ascribes to working with defenses... - Change in defense mechanisms during long-term dynamic psychotherapy and five-year outcomeJ Christopher Perry
Institute of Community and Family Psychiatry, Sir Mortimer B Davis Jewish General Hospital, Montreal
Am J Psychiatry 169:916-25. 2012..The authors examined whether defenses change in accordance with the hierarchy of defense adaptation during long-term dynamic psychotherapy and whether such change is associated with long-term outcomes on other measures... - Improvement and recovery from suicidal and self-destructive phenomena in treatment-refractory disordersJ Christopher Perry
The Austen Riggs Center, Stockbridge, Massachusetts 02162 0962, USA
J Nerv Ment Dis 197:28-34. 2009..2 years were required from the last observed self-destructive event to attain sustained recovery. Most participants showed significant improvement in suicidal phenomena, whereas between 50.6% and 77.2% attained sustained recoveries... - Subject and interviewer determinants of the adequacy of the dynamic interviewJ Christopher Perry
The Institute of Community and Family Psychiatry, Sir Mortimer B Davis, Jewish General Hospital McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
J Nerv Ment Dis 196:612-9. 2008..Adequate dynamic interviews established a positive subject-interviewer interaction, facilitated subject exploration, and minimized technical interviewing errors, thereby yielding sufficient topic coverage... - The sequence of recovery in long-term dynamic psychotherapyJ Christopher Perry
Institute of Community and Family Psychiatry, Sir Mortimer B Davis Jewish General Hospital and McGill University, Montreal, Quebec H3T 1E4, Canada
J Nerv Ment Dis 197:930-7. 2009..9% versus 2.5%, p < 0.0001) compared with those not satisfied. Sustained recovery unfolds sequentially across a variety of symptoms and functioning measures and is associated with patient satisfaction... - Seven institutionalized children and their adaptation in late adulthood: the children of Duplessis (Les Enfants de Duplessis)J Christopher Perry
Institute of Community and Family Psychiatry, Sir Mortimer B Davis Jewish General Hospital and with McGill University in Montréal, Quebec, Canada
Psychiatry 69:283-301. 2006..We hope that by highlighting the potentially adverse effects of institutional rearing on subsequent development into late adulthood, these stories may inform those concerned with the care of orphans... - Personal strengths and traumatic experiences among institutionalized children given up at birth (Les Enfants de Duplessis--Duplessis' children): II: Adaptation in late adulthoodJ Christopher Perry
Institute of Community and Family Psychiatry, Sir Mortimer B. Davis Jewish General Hospital, , , , Canada
J Nerv Ment Dis 193:783-9. 2005..Institutionalization of children--if unavoidable--must build in effective safeguards against adverse experiences, especially among children with few strengths, and foster children's strengths to avoid impaired adult outcomes... - Personal strengths and traumatic experiences among institutionalized children given up at birth (Les Enfants de Duplessis--Duplessis' children): I: Early experiencesJ Christopher Perry
Institute of Community and Family Psychiatry, Sir Mortimer B. Davis Jewish General Hospital, , , , Canada
J Nerv Ment Dis 193:777-82. 2005..Institutionalization of children--if unavoidable--must build in effective safeguards against adverse experiences... - Long-term changes in defense styles with psychodynamic psychotherapy for depressive, anxiety, and personality disordersMichael Bond
Department of Psychiatry, Sir Mortimer B Davis Jewish General Hospital and McGill University, Quebec, Canada
Am J Psychiatry 161:1665-71. 2004.... - An empirical examination of three models of the interpersonal functioning of patients with borderline personality disorderMartin Drapeau
McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Psychiatry 72:143-53. 2009..None of the models tested showed differences between the two groups on the CCRT standard categories... - Psychotropic medication use, personality disorder and improvement in long-term dynamic psychotherapyMichael Bond
Department of Psychiatry, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
J Nerv Ment Dis 194:21-6. 2006..PD pathology and being on medications at intake acted as moderator variables: PD predicted a smaller effect size in depression and functioning, while medications predicted a smaller effect size in depression only... - Interpersonal patterns in borderline personality disorderMartin Drapeau
McGill Psychotherapy Process Research Group, McGill University, 3700 McTavish, Montreal, Quebec, H3A 1Y2, Canada
J Pers Disord 26:583-92. 2012..The clinical implications of these findings are discussed... - An investigation of tasks and techniques associated with dynamic interview adequacyJ Christopher Perry
Erikson Institute for Training and Research, Austen Riggs Center, Stockbridge, Massachusetts 02162-0962, USA
J Nerv Ment Dis 193:136-9. 2005..The adequately conducted dynamic interview is associated with identifiable tasks and techniques that should facilitate teaching it for research or clinical use... - Unwanted infants: psychological and physical consequences of inadequate orphanage care 50 years laterJohn J Sigal
Sir Mortimer B. Davis-Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Am J Orthopsychiatry 73:3-12. 2003.... - Addressing and interpreting defense mechanisms in psychotherapy: general considerationsTrevor R Olson
Institute of Community and Family Psychiatry, Sir Mortimer B Davis Jewish General Hospital and McGill University, Montreal, QC
Psychiatry 74:142-65. 2011..Overall, this report codifies current clinical maxims and then provides future research directions for determining how clinicians can most effectively address defenses in psychotherapy... - Childhood trauma and adult interpersonal functioning: a study using the Core Conflictual Relationship Theme Method (CCRT)Martin Drapeau
McGill University, Montreal, Que, Canada
Child Abuse Negl 28:1049-66. 2004..Results also suggest that a continuous measurement approach to the study of traumata may provide information not captured by a dichotomous approach... - The Core Conflictual Relationship Themes (CCRT) in borderline personality disorderMartin Drapeau
McGill University and The Institute of Community and Family Psychiatry of the S M B D Jewish General Hospital, Canada
J Pers Disord 23:425-31. 2009..These findings are discussed in reference to previous studies on the interpersonal functioning of patients with BPD. How these findings may inform research on the effectiveness of treatment for BPD remains to be considered... - Effects of compulsory treatment orders on time to hospital readmissionDaniel Frank
Department of Psychiatry at McGill University, Canada
Psychiatr Serv 56:867-9. 2005.... - Maternal preoccupation and parenting as predictors of emotional and behavioral problems in children of women with breast cancerJohn J Sigal
Department of Psychiatry, Institute of Community and Family Psychiatry, Sir Mortimer B Davis Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
J Clin Oncol 21:1155-60. 2003.... - The definition and function of interview structure in psychiatric and psychotherapeutic interviewsStephen M Beck
Depression Research Clinic, Institute of Community and Familly Psychiatry, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Psychiatry 71:1-12. 2008..quot; In a companion article, we examine how these measures converge with another construct of structure and discriminate five different types of psychiatric and psychotherapeutic interviews in common use... - Clinical tasks of the dynamic interviewJ Christopher Fowler
Erik H Erikson Institute for Training and Research and the Austen Riggs Center, Stockbridge, MA 01262, USA
Psychiatry 68:316-36. 2005..We utilized excerpts from these interviews to highlight the importance of these tasks and techniques in deepening discussion of dynamically meaningful material... - Remission in major depressive disorder: a comparison of pharmacotherapy, psychotherapy, and control conditionsNicola Casacalenda
Institute of Community and Family Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, Jewish General Hospital and McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Am J Psychiatry 159:1354-60. 2002..The aim of this study was to assess the percentages of full remission in studies of patients with major depressive disorder in which pharmacotherapy, psychotherapy, and control conditions were directly compared... - Conflicts, defenses and the stability of narcissistic personality featuresJonathan D C Perry
Shaughnessy-Kaplan Rehabilitation Hospital, North Shore Medical Center, Salem, Massachusetts, USA
Psychiatry 67:310-30. 2004 - A study of stability and change in defense mechanisms during a brief psychodynamic investigationMartin Drapeau
, Adult Psychiatry Department of the University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
J Nerv Ment Dis 191:496-502. 2003..Future studies will need to use designs that allow estimation of state changes while taking sufficient measurements to estimate potential changes in trait levels of defenses... - [Marital communication and depressive symptoms in couples in which the woman has cancer of the breast]Julie Normand
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Bull Cancer 91:193-9. 2004..e. a depressive level found in the general population. Direction of causality between frequency of marital communication and depressive symptomatology cannot be established from this study...