Resistance to specialized services for AIDS patients within psychiatry.

Abstract

Despite the opportunity of helpful intervention, palliation, and prevention in the form of psychosocial counselling, specialized services for AIDS patients and individuals-at-risk have met with resistance within psychiatry. Resistance can be understood as a reaction to the nature of the illness and its demographics. It can also be understood as an outgrowth of current psychiatric practice and theory, especially as it pertains to homosexuality.