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Indian Journal of PsychiatryOFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE INDIAN PSYCHIATRIC SOCIETY ISSN 0019-5545 Honorary Editor Section Editors Mahendra K. Nepal - Nepal Swaminath G. Literary psychiatry: Ajit V. Bhide Mario Maj - Italy Professor and Head, Art and Psychiatry: R. Raguram Mohan K. Issac - Australia Department of Psychiatry, Cultural Psychiatry: Shiv Gautham Pedro Ruiz - USA Dr. B. R. Ambedkar Medical College, R. Srinivasa Murthy - Jordan Kadugondanahalli, Bangalore - 560045 The History Page: T. V. Asokan Ph: 080-23152508/23209217 Rohan Ganguli - USA Mobile: 9845007121 Indian Advisory Board Rudra Prakash- USA Email: [email protected] Sanjay Dube- USA A.B. Ghosh P. Raghurami Reddy Honorary Chief Advisor Sekhar Saxena- Geneva A. K. Agarwal P. K. Dalal Sheila Hollins- UK T. S. Sathyanarayana Rao Abraham Varghese Prasanna Raj Professor and Head, Tony Elliott- UK Department of Psychiatry, Ajit V. Bhide R. Ponnudurai Vijoy K Varma- USA J. S. S. Medical College, Mysore - 570004 Col. G. R. Golechha S.M.Channabasavanna Vikram Patel- UK Mobile: 9845282399 G. G. Prabhu S. C. Malik Email: [email protected] J. W. Sabhaney S. C. Tiwari Distinguished Past Editors Editorial Offi ce K. Kuruvilla Shridhar Sharma N. N. De 1949 to 1951 Department of Psychiatry, K. A. Kumar Narendra N. Wig L. P. Verma 1951 to 1958 J. S. S. Medical College, Hospital, S. Kalyanasundaram R. Sathianathan A. N. Bardhan 1958 to 1960 Ramanuja Road, Mysore – 570004 P. Kulhara Indira Sharma Lt. Col. M. R. Vachha 1961 to 1967 Ph: 0821 -2653845 Ext 309 Direct: 2442840 (Tele), 0821-2433898 (Fax) A. Venkoba Rao 1968 to 1976 Email: [email protected] International Advisory Board B. B. Sethi 1977 to 1984 S. M. Channabasavanna 1985 to 1988 Honorary Associate Editor Allan Tasman - USA Anand Pandurangi - USA A. K. Agarwal 1989 to 1992 Roy Abraham Kallivayalil Asha Mishra - USA K. Kuruvilla 1993 to 1996 Mob: 9447020020, J. K. Trivedi 1997 to 2002 Bruce Singh - Australia E-mail: [email protected] Utpal Goswami 2003 Dinesh Bhugra - UK Honorary Deputy Editor T. S. S. Rao 2004 George Christodoulou - Greece E. Mohandas Nimesh G. Desai 2005 to 2006 Mob: 9447086355 Harischandra Gambheera - Sri Lanka T. S. S. Rao 2007 E-mail: emohandas53@gmail. com Haroon Rashid Chaudhury - Pakistan Helen Herrman - Australia Statistical Consultants Editorial Board J. Sreenivasaraghavan - USA A. K. Prabhakar, Mysore Ajit Avasti Juan E. Mezzich - USA Behare Prakash Balkrishna P. Nagabhushan, Mysore Chittaranjan Andrade Levent Kuey - Turkey B. S. Ramesh, Mysore K. S. Jacob K. S. Shaji Margoob Mushtaq Ahmed Subscription (total 5 issues). The IJP publishes original work in all Nizamie S. Haque Subscribers should contact the ofÞ ce of the Þ elds of Psychiatry. All correspondence including Sanjay Gupta Honorary Editor, IJP for subscription requests. manuscripts for publication should be sent Venugopal Jhanwar Annual subscription rates for year 2007 to the Honorary Editor, Indian Journal of Vinay Kumar L. S. S. Manickam (Local co-ordinator) (5 issues, postage included) are as follows: Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry. Dr. B. R. India Overseas Ambedkar Medical College, Kadugondanahalli, Journal Committee Institution Rs 3,500 US$ 140 Bangalore - 560045. Ajai R. Singh A. K. Kala Individual Rs 2,400 US$ 100 E-mail: [email protected]. B. N. Gangadhar G. Prasad Rao Copyright: @ 2007 The Indian Psychiatric Society. Govind M. Bang Jayanth Chatterjee Queries from member/non-members about J. K. Trivedi M. S. Bhatia missing or faulty copies should be addressed Unless so stated, the material in the Indian Joseph P. Varghese Prathap Tharyan within three months. Payment should be P. S. V. N Sharma S. M. 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It is of the quality or value of the said product or of E-mail: [email protected] published quarterly with one additional supplement claims made for it by its manufacturer. Indian J Psychiatry 49(4), Oct-Dec 2007 305 Indian Journal of PsychiatryVolume 49, No. 4, October-December 2007 OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE INDIAN PSYCHIATRIC SOCIETY CONTENTS EDITOR SPEAKS They also serve who stand and wait.…: G. Swaminath 227 EDITORIAL You can lead a horse to the water: G. Swaminath 228 GUEST EDITORIAL Criminal behavior: A dispassionate look at parental disciplinary practices: T. S. Sathyanarayana Rao 231 AWARD PAPERS Acute and transient psychosis: A paradigmatic approach: Savita Malhotra 233 Schizophrenia is a disorder of aberrant neurodevelopment: A synthesis of evidence from clinical and structural, functional and neurochemical brain imaging studies: Ganesan Venkatasubramanian 244 ORIGINAL ARTICLES A 5-year course of predominantly obsessive vs. mixed subtypes of obsessivecompulsive disorder: S. B. Math, Jaideep Thoduguli, Y. C. Janardhan Reddy, P. N. Manoj, A. Zutshi, R. P. Rajkumar, A. M. Adarsh 250 Cannabis-related psychosis: Presentation and effect of abstinence: Vani Kulhalli, Mohan Isaac, Pratima Murthy 256 Pesticide poisoning in non-fatal deliberate self-harm: A public health issue: Study from Sundarban delta, India: A. N. Chowdhury, Sohini Banerjee, Arabinda Brahma, M. K. Biswas 262 BRIEF COMMUNICATION Repetitive love proposing: A case report and review of phenomenology of impulsivity and compulsivity: Narayana Manjunatha, Devvarta Kumar, Haque S. Nizamie 267 REVIEW ARTICLE Clozapine: Current perspective: Ram K. Solanki, Paramjeet Singh, Mukesh K. Swami 271 COMMENTARY Proposal to the Indian Psychiatric Society for adopting a specialty section on addiction medicine (alcohol and other substance abuse): Vivek Benegal, Alok Bajpai, Debasish Basu, Neelam Bohra, Sudipto Chatterji, RB Galgali, DS Goel, Mohan K Isaac, Venugopal Jhanwar, Rajkumar Lenin, PM Madhavan, AK Mittal, E Mohandas, Thyloth Murali, Pratima Murthy, Rajesh Nagpal, S Nambi, C Ram Subramaniam, Shubhangi Parkar, Prasad Rao, MS Reddy, Alok Sarin, TP Sudhakar, BM Tripathi, Matthew Varghese 277 VIEW POINT Clinical practice guidelines for psychiatrists: Indian Psychiatric Society guidelines vs. international guidelines: A critical appraisal: Dishanter Goel, Jitendra Kumar Trivedi 283 CASE REPORTS A case of neuroleptic malignant syndrome induced by olanzapine in postpartum period: Mehmet Üstündağ, Murat Orak, Cahfer Güloğlu, Mustafa Burak Sayhan, Mahmut Taş 287 Indian J Psychiatry 49(4), Oct-Dec 2007 303 Mania as an unique life event: Manu Arora, Piyali Mukherjee, Samir Kumar Praharaj, Vinod Kumar Sinha 290 A case presented with ‘‘as if’’ phenomenon: Soumitra Ghosh, Kushal K. Tamuli, Sabita Dihingia 292 LITERARY PSYCHIATRY Compulsive gambling in ancient Indian texts: Ajit V. Bhide 294 LETTERS TO EDITOR Rejoinder in reply to critical appraisal on ‘‘factitious schizophrenia’’: Rajnish Raj, Balwant Singh Sidhu 296 More on responsibility of psychiatrists in Indian setting: Prakash Gangdev 298 A rare case of head (scalp) trauma with foreign body: Gurvinder Pal Singh 299 EVENTS AND HAPPENINGS 297 AUTHOR INDEX - 2007 300 TITLE INDEX - 2007 302 The copies of the journal to members of the association are sent by ordinary post. The editorial board, association or publisher will not be responsible for non-receipt of copies. If any of the members wish to receive the copies by registered post or courier, kindly contact the journal’s / publisher’s offi ce. If a copy returns due to incomplete, incorrect or changed address of a member on two consecutive occasions, the names of such members will be deleted from the mailing list of the journal. 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If a copy is received for personal use as a member of the association/society, one cannot resale or give-away the copy for commercial or library use. 304 Indian J Psychiatry 49(4), Oct-Dec 2007 COMMENTARY Proposal to the Indian Psychiatric Society for adopting a specialty section on addiction medicine (alcohol and other substance abuse) Vivek Benegal, Alok Bajpai, Debasish Basu, Neelam Bohra, Sudipto Chatterji, RB Galgali, DS Goel, Mohan K Isaac, Venugopal Jhanwar, Rajkumar Lenin, PM Madhavan, AK Mittal, E Mohandas, Thyloth Murali, Pratima Murthy, Rajesh Nagpal, S Nambi, C Ram Subramaniam, Shubhangi Parkar, Prasad Rao, MS Reddy, Alok Sarin, TP Sudhakar, BM Tripathi, Matthew Varghese Members, Indian Psychiatric Society The Indian Psychiatric Society, laudably, has a few special overall prevalence of alcohol dependence to be 6.9/1000 for subsections catering to the advance and development of India, with urban and rural rates of 5.8/1000 and 7.3/1000 certain areas of mental-health