[Reliability and Validity Study of the Turkish Version of Hypomania Checklist-32-Revised].

Objective: In this study, it is aimed to evaluate the reliability and validity of the Turkish version of Hypomania Checklist-32-Revised.

Method: The study was carried out with 80 patients diagnosed with bipolar I disorder, 26 patients diagnosed with bipolar II disorder and 42 patients diagnosed with major depressive disorder attending the out- and in-patient psychiatry departments of three university hospitals and one training hospital, and 116 healthy volunteers consisting of university students. Mean duration of illness was 15,1 years for the bipolar disorder group, and 9,3 years for the major depressive disorder group.

[Domestic violence and female patients].

Objectives: 1. To investigate the life-time prevalence of spousal physical abuse, history of childhood physical abuse, and child physical abuse among female outpatients and the relationship between the three; 2. To investigate the characteristics of physical abuse; 3.

Condolence houses in Sanliurfa: fading away of a tradition and a creative attempt to preserve it.

This article reports the results of qualitative research conducted to investigate the change in the traditional manner of giving and accepting condolences in Sanliurfa, a city with a unique sociocultural structure in the southeastern part of Turkey. Our methodology was based on direct observation of behavior and detailed, open-ended interviews with participants. This article aims to investigate the reasons for moving the condolence tradition from family homes to specially built condolence houses a decade ago and discusses the functional significance of the ceremonial events in giving and accepting condolences.

Risk factors associated with childbearing-related episodes in women with bipolar disorder.

Objective: For the onset of illness and possible recurrence during the childbearing period, women with bipolar disorder (BD) are at a higher risk. The aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of clinical and psychosocial factors associated with pregnancy and the postpartum period on the course of BD.

Methods: The childbearing and illness history of 72 women with BD were assessed to determine mood episodes related to the childbearing period.

[Forty-six year old baby].

In this paper, an extraordinary mother-son relationship involving 46 year-old, married, male patient with three children is discussed. He had never had any psychiatric complaint until his mother's death. However, he developed severe depressive and somatic symptoms following his 80 year-old mother's death.

[Domestic violence and its developmental dimension: a different perspective].

Domestic violence is a problem which severely threatens physical and mental health in Turkey as well as the rest of the world. In spite of this, there is almost no discussion of the problem in psychoanalytic journals. Although aggression is discussed thoroughly in the psychoanalytic literature, the number of articles on violence is very limited.