The Galway Study of Panic Disorder. I: Clomipramine and lofepramine in DSM III-R panic disorder: a placebo controlled trial.

Among 79 volunteer, unpaid, family doctor-referred psychiatric out patients with DSM III-R panic disorder, with and without agoraphobia, 66 completed a six week placebo-controlled trial of lofepramine versus clomipramine and 57 survivors were followed up for 6 months. All subjects received one hour per week concurrent behavioural counselling in the acute phase. Of 13 dropouts in the first 3 weeks, 9 (of 27) were on clomipramine, 2 (of 26) were on lofepramine and 2 (of 26) were on placebo.

[Therapy of sex offenders in a psychiatric regional hospital].

A treatment concept for sexual delinquents convicted and referred to psychiatric treatment in accordance with Section 63 of the German Penal Code, has been worked out at the Psychiatric Hospital in Weissenau. Among the manifold therapeutic measures, group therapy was found to be of paramount importance. The members of the group are described in detail according to their social characteristics, type of offence, psychiatric diagnoses, and major personality traits.