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M H Hollender

Publications and source records attributed to M H Hollender.

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PubMed1977

Genital exhibitionism in women.

Historically, genital exhibitionism has usually been regarded as an exclusively male phenomenon. The authors present a case study of a female exhibitionist which is at variance with that contention. They offer a formulation of the psychodymanics of female exhibitionism, focusing on its pregenital, attention-seeking purpose. The findings from this case justify a critical reexamination of the traditional definitions of exhibitionism.

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PubMed1976

The wish to be held. A transcultural study.

In a previous study, it was noted that "a strong desire to be held or cuddled correlated with a general leaning toward openness in emotional expression." As is well known, some cultures foster openness, while others do not. This project was designed to assess the influence of cultural attitudes on the wish to be held. To do so, questionnaires were given to five groups of Asian women living in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The most striking differences found were between two groups of Chinese women, one Chinese-educated, and the other, English-educated. The Chinese-educated group inhibited the expression of sensual needs. An English education overturned the traditional mode of response; women in this group scored highest in their wish to be held and lowest in their inclination to keep their body-contact desires secret. This study demonstrates that cultural as well as psychological forces exert a profound influence on the wish to be held.

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PubMed1976

Wish to be held and wish to hold in men and women.

The present study focuses on the wish to be held and the wish to hold in men and women and is based on data collected from both a questionnaire and interviews. It was assumed that cultural sex-role stereotypes would influence the results. More specifically, it was postulated that men would find it easier to acknowledge and discuss their wish to hold rather than their wish to be held, but our data did not support this postulation. The chief differences between men and women were the trend for women to favor being held over holding and the much more sizeable group of women than men who were extremely high scorers on the body contact scale. Men, at least those who are psychiatric patients, can acknowledge their longings to be held, but the intensity of this feeling either does not reach the height attained by some women or, if it does, it is not reported.

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PubMed1976

Large state hospitals: problems and a solution.

Periodic outcries have focused attention on gross deficiencies in our large state hospitals. Shortages of psychiatrists, commonly attributed to insufficient funding, also may be due in part to lack of prestige and power, disadvantages of public practice and unrewarding relationships with involuntary patients. In spite of discouraging experiences for more than three decades, we continue to ask what can be done to improve large state hospitals and persist in thinking that a workable formula will be found. Logically this is most unlikely, and a better approach might be to raise a different question. I have suggested that we ask, "What can replace large state hospitals?" and to this question I have offered an answer.

Delivery of Health Care↗
PubMed1976

Transsexualism in two male triplets.

The authors present clinical and case material on two male triplets with aberrant gender identity. Their findings coincide with those of the few family studies reported in which there were two or more transsexual members; they also reveal patterns generally in keeping with the psychological determinants of transsexualism suggested by Stoller.

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PubMed1975

Erotomania or de Clérambault syndrome.

De Clérambault focused attention on a syndrome in which a woman has the delusional belief that a man, usually of higher social status and considerably older, is much in love with her. If the patient's romantic ideas shaped private fantasies instead of determined public behavior, there would be little cause for concern. The situation becomes critical when the fantasies are dramatized in real life with an unsuspecting and usually unwilling man cast in the role of the lover. The woman dwells on the feelings she ascribes to her "suitor." Such delusional thinking, resulting from an ego defect and producting bizarre actions, may be shaped largely by feelings of being unloved or even unloveable; a narcissistic blow is overcome by a grandiose fantasy. Cases in which erotomania is prominent are usually diagnosed as paranoid state or paranoid schizophrenia.

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