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M Steen

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PubMed1984

Isolated right ventricular myocardial infarction. A case report.

Isolated right ventricular infarction is uncommon. A 73-year-old man without previous cardial complaints was admitted pulseless to hospital. An infarct of the left ventricle was suspected. Autopsy showed a fresh thrombus located in a small branch artery of the right coronary artery accompanied by a fresh infarction of the anterior free wall of the right ventricle. Only 8 cases of isolated right ventricular infarction located in the anterior free wall were found in a review of the literature of right ventricular infarction. The diagnosis, treatment and prognosis of right ventricular infarction are discussed.

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Historical perspectives on women and mental illness and prevention of depression in women, using a feminist framework.

This article discusses Showalter's (1985) description of the historical perspectives of how women have been viewed in the culture and how these perspectives have influenced women's past treatment for mental illness. Using Caplan's (1974) level of prevention in health care and a feminist framework, suggestions are made for prevention or alleviation of depression in women in the contemporary culture. In The Female Malady, Showalter (1985) described three themes that were prevalent through three historical phases of English psychiatry: psychiatric Victorianism (1830-1870), psychiatric Darwinism (1870-1920), and psychiatric Modernism (1920-1980). Showalter described how the prevailing attitudes toward the mentally ill, and toward women in particular, were influenced by the social changes of each historical phase and how these attitudes affected the thinking and treatment used by the psychiatrists. The problems that these historical perspectives have caused for women are discussed. A feminist view of depression is given in which depression is equated with oppression. The guidelines for feminist therapy developed by the Task Force of the Feminist Therapy Collective, Inc., of Philadelphia and by feminist therapists in private practice in Philadelphia are discussed as an alternative to the traditional approach to therapy. Mental health promotion using Caplan's (1974) three levels of prevention in health care is discussed. Intervention strategies for each of these levels of prevention, following feminist guidelines and using techniques that have been found to be helpful for women, are described and discussed. The focus of these intervention strategies is to reduce effects of factors in the cultural environment that contribute to the oppression of women and, in turn, contribute to their becoming depressed.

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Essential structure and meaning of recovery from clinical depression for middle-adult women: a phenomenological study.

The author interviewed 22 women who had been clinically depressed and were in the recovery stage, as evidenced by their self-evaluations and scores on the Beck Depression Inventory. The focus of the interviews was on the phenomenological question concerning the meaning of the women's experiences of recovering from depression. Five phases in the recovery process were identified from analysis of the data: existential alienation/pain, crises of adulthood, first turning point, second turning point, and becoming a gardener. Nurses can use perceptions of clients in this study about what was helpful and not helpful and the tools they used to help themselves in recovering from depression to enhance the recovery process for other depressed women.

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