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Creative Group Therapy for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse: Speaking the Unspeakable by Bonnie Meekums London: Jessica Kingsley, 2000 ISBN 1 85302 453 8, £16.95

Psychological Aesthetics: Painting, Feeling and Making Sense by David Maclagan London: Jessica Kingsiey, 2001 ISBN 1 85302 8347, £16.95     

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The prevalence of autism in the US has risen from 1 in ~2500 in the mid-1980s to 1 in ~300 children in the mid-1990s. The purpose of this study was to evaluate whether mercury from thimerosal in childhood vaccines contributed to neurodevelopmental disorders. Neurodevelopmental disorder dose-response curves for increasing mercury doses of thimerosal in childhood vaccines were determined based upon examination of the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS) database and the 2001 US' Department of Education Report. The instantaneous dosage of mercury children received in comparison to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)'s maximum permissible dose for the oral ingestion of methylmercury was also determined. The dose-response curves showed increases in odds ratios of neurodevelopmental disorders from both the VAERS and US Department of Education data closely linearly correlated with increasing doses of mercury from thimerosal-containing childhood vaccines and that for overall odds ratios statistical significance was achieved. Similar slopes and linear regression coefficients for autism odds ratios in VAERS and the US Department of Education data help to mutually validate each other. Controls employed in the VAERS and US Department of Education data showed minimal biases. The evidence presented here shows that the occurrence of neurodevelopmental disorders following thimerosal-containing childhood vaccines does not appear to be coincidental.     

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Tsui JKC, Calne DB, eds. Handbook of Dystonia. Neurological Disease & Therapy Series 39.
Battistin L, Scarlato G, Caraceni T, Ruggieri S, eds. Parkinson's Disease.
Ellenberg JH, Koller WC, Langston JW, eds. Etiology of Parkinson's Disease.     

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Movement Disorders in Childre By Emilio Fernandez-Alvarez and Jean Aicardi London, Mac Keith Press (International Review of Child Neurology Series)
Child Neurology (6th edn) Edited by John H Menkes and Harvey B Stewart Philadelphia PA, Lippincott Williams and Wilkins.
Limbic seizures in children Edited by G Avanzini, A Beaumanoir and L Mira London, John Libbey.
Keeping Healthy'Down Below'By Sheila Hollins, Jackie Downer, and Beth Webb London, Gaskell and St George's Hospital Medical School.
Looking After My Breasts By Sheila Hollins, Jackie Downer, Wendy Perez, and Beth Webb London, Gaskell and St George's Hospital Medical School.     

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HANDBOOK OF TREATMENT FOR EATING DISORDERS, 2nd Edition, edited by David M. Garner and Paul E. Garfinkel. New York: Guilford Press. 1997. DEATH AND BEREAVEMENT ACROSS CULTURES edited by Colin Murphy Parkes, Pittu Laungani, and Bill Young. New York: Routledge. 1997. $69.95, hardcover, $19.95, softcover. ASSESSING PSYCHOLOGICAL TRAUMA AND PTSD edited by John P. Wilson and Terence M. Keane. New York: Guilford Press. 1997. 577 pp.     

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Between 1982 and 1988, eleven patients with brain abscess were treated by craniotomy and continuous closed system antibiotic irrigation. By the use of this technique, repetitive abscess aspirations were not necessary.     

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Assessing the number of patients who maintain their gains after the completion of therapy has been of interest to psychotherapy outcome researchers. The current study examines evidence related to the maintenance of treatment gains in individuals diagnosed with Cluster C personality disorders. Fifteen studies, published between 1982 and 2006, met the criteria for inclusion. The effect size standardized mean difference statistic was applied. In the majority of cases, most of the improvement occurred between pretreatment and posttreatment. However, social skills training often produced effect sizes that were larger for posttreatment follow-up. The study indicates that therapy gains are usually maintained at follow-up for Cluster C clients treated with cognitive-behavioral and psychodynamic approaches as well as social skills training. Uncertainty remains whether DPD, AVPD or OCPD patients benefited most from therapy.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Let me read . Dorothy Jeffree and Margaret Skeffington A comprehensive program for multi-handicapped children: an illustrated approach . Alvin Buckwold Centre.     

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Body Image, Eating Disorders, and Obesity: An Integrative Guide for Assessment and Treatment, edited by J. Kevin Thompson. Washqton, DC: American Psychological Association, 1996,517 pages, $49.95.

Intuitive Eating: A Recovery Book for the Chronic DietedRediscover the Pleasures of Eating and Rebuild Your Body Emage, by Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995, 256 pages, $21.95.

Eating Problems: A Feminist Psychoanalytic Treatment Model, by Carol Bloom, Andrea Gitter, Susan Gutwill, Laura Kogel,&Lela Zaphiropoulos. New York: Basic Books, 1994, 269 pages, $37.

From Fasting Saints to Anorexic Girls: The History of Self-starvation, by Walter Vandereycken&Ron van Deth. New York: New York University Press, 1994, 296 pages, $42.50, $17.95 paperback.