title: Beyond morality: the need for psychodynamic understanding and treatment of responses to the AIDS crisis.
abstract: The purpose of this paper is to identify a broad range of issues that both impact, and are impacted by, psychiatric intervention in AIDS and AIDS-related cases, with a special concern towards emphasizing the need for application of a psychodynamic perspective, in the understanding and treatment of pathological responses to the AIDS crisis. As a cornerstone of the psychiatric model, psychodynamic evaluation and treatment can provide a breadth of focus and depth of understanding crucial to a resolution of some of the deeper psychosocial aspects involved in the reaction to and spread of the AIDS virus. A case example is used to illustrate psychodynamic factors which precluded the patient's ability to choose monogamy, and which contributed to the "transmission" of a cyclic pattern of psychodynamic pathology.
authors.forename: R R
authors.initials: RR
authors.lastname: Rogers
mesh_terms: D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / Q000523:psychology* / Q000635:transmission; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002650:Child Abuse, Sexual / Q000523:psychology; D004196:Disease Outbreaks; D005260:Female; D006716:Homosexuality / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D009014:Morals; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory; D011606:Psychosexual Development; D012307:Risk Factors; D012725:Sexual Behavior