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...Mental Disorders, Third Edition (DSM-III), an official publication of the American Psychiatric Association, is the definitive word on psychological disturbances. Viet Nam veterans (along with rape victims, among others) achieved some psychiatric status when DSM-III in 1980 officially defined their suffering as "posttraumatic stress disorder." In such distress, a person develops vivid symptoms after a psychologically traumatic event that is outside the range of usual human experience: he or she grows numb toward the external world, or else hyperalert, jumpy, insomniac; in nightmares the event that brought on the trauma is obsessively replayed...
...this may be a mistaken impression--a certain cooling of Bond's ardour for romantic digression. This may be a concession to Moore's advancing years, though he may come back robustly in Octupussy. With the Reagan era upon the world, Bond may soon return to the damsel-in-distress mode...
...Soviet nation are in solidarity with your struggle. Our point of view has been expressed with precision in the statement of Comrade L. Brezhnev at the Soviet Party's 26th Congress: "We shall not let socialist Poland be harmed, and we shall not abandon a fraternal country in distress...
...director has also listened to requests that UHS doctors treat gay students fairly. Dr. Warren E. C. Wacker, director of UHS, spoke before a GSA meeting and has taken the lead in "sensitizing" physicians and psychiatrists. Nevertheless, most counselors at UHS still regard homosexuality as an indication of psychological distress and confusion that needs treatment, several gay students say. Schatz, whose medical record includes the fact that he is gay, is now tested for venereal disease whenever he goes to UHS. "When I had water on the knee, they tested me for VD. And when I broke...
Sutcliffe pleaded guilty to seven counts of attempted murder. Then, as his wife looked on with distress from a nearby seat and grim-faced relatives of the victims strained to hear, he was questioned about 13 counts of murder. Occasionally stumbling nervously over his words, he responded: "Not guilty to murder, but guilty to manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility." Thus in less than ten minutes, the chilling admission was heard in a tangled case of multiple murder that had claimed the lives of 13 Yorkshire and Lancashire women since 1975. Before the suspect was arrested last January, more...