{"title":"Resistance to specialized services for AIDS patients within psychiatry.","authors":"M V Seeman","doi":"","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Despite the opportunity of helpful intervention, palliation, and prevention in the form of psychosocial counselling, specialized services for AIDS patients and individuals-at-risk have met with resistance within psychiatry. Resistance can be understood as a reaction to the nature of the illness and its demographics. It can also be understood as an outgrowth of current psychiatric practice and theory, especially as it pertains to homosexuality.</p>","PeriodicalId":77808,"journal":{"name":"The Hillside journal of clinical psychiatry","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1989-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"The Hillside journal of clinical psychiatry","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Despite the opportunity of helpful intervention, palliation, and prevention in the form of psychosocial counselling, specialized services for AIDS patients and individuals-at-risk have met with resistance within psychiatry. Resistance can be understood as a reaction to the nature of the illness and its demographics. It can also be understood as an outgrowth of current psychiatric practice and theory, especially as it pertains to homosexuality.