title: Psychosocial aspects of HIV and AIDS.
abstract: Psychiatrists see human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected patients who suffer from several types of psychiatric disorders and personality disorders. These syndromes can arise (1) in people who have had a previous history of a similar illness; (2) in people in whom the HIV infection exacerbates a borderline condition; (3) from the stress of the HIV infection and its known prognosis; and (4) only rarely is a person who is not HIV infected but becomes unduly or unrealistically concerned about acquiring the infection.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Drescher
mesh_terms: D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / Q000523:psychology*; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000209:etiology* / Q000523:psychology; D012944:Social Support