This Article  • References  • Full text PDF  • Reply to article  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in this journal  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

Paul C. Horton, MD
234 Hobart St Meriden, CT 06450

Arch Neurol. 1985;42(9):840.

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text PDF and any section headings.

To the Editor.

—The article by Weintraub and Mesulam¹ bears a remarkable resemblance both in thesis and in case material to an earlier article of mine.² Drs Weintraub and Mesulam describe patients who have chronic "emotional and interpersonal difficulties" and whose symptoms are suggestive of "damage to the right hemisphere." Several of their patients, like the patient described in my case 2, showed marked discrepancies between verbal and performance IQ. Most of their patients also showed lifelong "introversion and shyness," very much like the patient in my case 1 who presented with chronic "feelings of inadequacy, loneliness and isolation." The correct psychiatric diagnosis for such patients is personality disorder. In a general way Drs Weintraub and Mesulam confirm my original thesis, though mine is both psychiatrically and neurologically more specific^2(p782):

An inability to relate transitionally (that is, to be able to find solace in objects, activities and . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter     What's this?