Social phobia treated as a problem in social functioning: a controlled comparison of two behavioural group approaches.

Objective: Treatments for social phobia result typically in significant anxiety and avoidance reduction; the repercussions in terms of social functioning, however, are not clear. This controlled study compared two approaches designed to improve the social functioning of social phobics.

Method: Sixty-eight socially phobic patients were randomly assigned to two treatments focused on improving interpersonal relationships either with or without social skills training or a waiting list; 60 completed treatment and 59 a 1-year follow-up.

The treatment of sexually dysfunctional men without partners: a controlled study of three behavioural group approaches.

Background: Models of sex therapy for sexual dysfunction in single men are available, but their value is not well established. This controlled study compared three approaches to the treatment of sexually dysfunctional single men.

Method: Sixty-nine single men diagnosed as sexually dysfunctional were randomly assigned to treatments focusing on either their sexual dysfunction, their interpersonal problems, a combination of both or a waiting list; 51 completed treatment and 50 the one-year follow-up.

[Elements for understanding "schizophrenic vulnerability"].

Studies of the negative symptoms of schizophrenia seem to be of interest. However, the description of these symptoms is problematic. Some cognitive tests seem able to establish data that can be used to help discriminate among schizophrenic syndromes and to understand their different pathophysiology.

[Pharmacologic interventions in agitated mentally retarded patients].

Aggressive behavior of mental retardates is a frequent problem which semiological description is very polymorphic. Some psychiatric etiologies are listed, and then the different aspects of idiopathic aggressive behavior are described. These aspects give guidelines for more specific treatments which are further reviewed.

[Treatment of schizophrenia: a new synthesis of the literature].

One can say that a new approach of long-term treatment of schizophrenia is born. In the last years many authors developed a psychoeducational point of view based on the concept of expressed emotions. These works are quite unknown by the French psychiatrists.