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Samuel B. Thielman

Samuel B. Thielman

Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Psychiatry, Child & Family Mental Health & Community Psychiatry
P.O. Box 786, Montreat, NC 28757

Featured Works

Psychiatric disorders after terrorist bombings among rescue workers and bombing survivors in Nairobi and rescue workers in Oklahoma City.

Journal article Ann Clin Psychiatry · February 2016 Featured Publication BACKGROUND: To examine the prevalence of psychopathology in 52 male rescue workers responding to the 1998 U.S. Embassy bombing in Nairobi, Kenya, comparing them with 176 male rescue workers responding to the 1995 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, bombing and with 1 ... Link to item Cite

Religious and Spiritual Considerations in Psychiatric Diagnosis: Considerations for the DSM-V

Book section · February 27, 2012 Featured Publication This book aims to inform and explain, as well as to be thought provoking and even controversial. ... Cite

Religion and Spirituality in the Description of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

Book section · 2011 Featured Publication The symposium was an attempt to expand the current DSM text on "Specific Culture, Age, and Gender Features"; and "Differential Diagnosis" to include the impact of religious/spiritual factors on phenomenology, differential diagnosis, course, ... ... Cite

Spirituality and the care of madness: Historical considerations

Book section · January 1, 2009 Featured Publication SUMMARY Spiritual and religious issues are sometimes neglected or misrepresented in histories of psychiatry. This chapter outlines a historical approach to understanding how spiritual and religious ideas are expressed in medical and religious writings deal ... Full text Cite

The Death of Sigmund Freud by Mark Edmundson

Book review The New England journal of medicine · 2008 Featured Publication Cite

Neutrality, autonomy and mental health: a closer look.

Journal article Bull Menninger Clin · 2007 Featured Publication Clinicians have traditionally viewed neutrality as the primary means of promoting patient autonomy, and by extension mental health. But patients also require expert direction, want other values incorporated into their treatment, and benefit from collaborat ... Full text Link to item Cite

Comparison of post-disaster psychiatric disorders after terrorist bombings in Nairobi and Oklahoma City.

Journal article Br J Psychiatry · June 2005 Featured Publication BACKGROUND: African disaster-affected populations are poorly represented in disaster mental health literature. AIMS: To compare systematically assessed mental health in populations directly exposed to terrorist bombing attacks on two continents, North Amer ... Full text Link to item Cite

Observations on the impact on kenyans of the august 7, 1998 bombing of the united states embassy in nairobi

Journal article Journal of Aggression Maltreatment and Trauma · April 4, 2005 Featured Publication The August 7, 1998 bombing of the American embassy in Nairobi affected a large number of people, both Kenyan and American. The bombing led to a large-scale response from the Kenyan mental health community and to collaboration between American and Kenyan re ... Full text Cite

Psychiatric consequences of the 1998 US Embassy bombing in Nairobi, Kenya

Journal article PSYCHIATRIC ANNALS · August 2004 Featured Publication Full text Link to item Cite

Community management of mental disorders in antebellum America.

Journal article J Hist Med Allied Sci · July 1989 Featured Publication Full text Link to item Cite

Julia Rush's diary: coping with loss in the early nineteenth century.

Journal article Am J Psychiatry · September 1986 Featured Publication Julia Rush (1759-1848), wife of Benjamin Rush (1745-1813), recorded her thoughts over a 33-year period in an unpublished devotional journal. Many of the entries relate to her experience of the loss of Benjamin Rush. Although the diary is inadequate as a so ... Full text Link to item Cite

Psychiatry and social values: the American Psychiatric Association and immigration restriction, 1880-1930.

Journal article Psychiatry · November 1985 Featured Publication From time to time during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the issue of immigration came before the American Psychiatric Association (APA). Members of the APA who publicly discussed the problem of immigration often addressed it in ways that emphasize ... Full text Link to item Cite

Help After High Stress Assignments

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