Francine Cournos, M.D.

ARTICLES

1. Cournos F, Herman R, Glicken N. Defending the mentally disabled. Social Work, 29: 300-303, 1984

2. Cournos F. Staff reaction to an inpatient homicide. Hospital and Community Psychiatry, 36: 664-666, 1985

3. Cournos F. Orders not to resuscitate and the psychiatric hospital. Psychiatric Quarterly, 58: 42-51, 1986

4. Cournos F. Suffering in chronic mental illness. Loss, Grief and Care. 1: 53-56, 1986

5. Cournos F. The impact of environmental factors on outcome in residential programs, Hospital and Community Psychiatry, 38: 848-852, 1987

6. Cournos F, McKinnon K, Adams C. A comparison of clinical and judicial procedures for reviewing requests for involuntary medication in New York. Hospital and Community Psychiatry, 39: 851-855, 1988

7. Cournos F, Empfield M, Horwath E, Kramer, M. The management of HIV infection in state hospitals. Hospital and Community Psychiatry, 40:153-156, 1989

8. Horwath E, Kramer, M, Cournos F, Empfield, M Gewirtz, G. Clinical presentations of AIDS and HIV infection in state psychiatric facilities, Hospital and Community Psychiatry, 40:502-506, 1989

9. Cournos F. Involuntary Medication and the case of Joyce Brown, Hospital and Community Psychiatry, 40:736-740, 1989

10. McKinnon K, Cournos F, Stanley B. Rivers in practice: Clinician assessments of patient decision-making capacity, Hospital and Community Psychiatry, 40: 1159-1162, 1989

11. Cournos F, Empfield M, Horwath E, Schrage H. HIV infection in state hospitals: Case reports and long-term strategies, Hospital and Community Psychiatry, 41: 163-166, 1990

12. Bloche MG, Cournos F. Mental health policy for the 1990's: Tinkering in the interstices, Journal of Health, Politics, Policy and Law, 15: 387 - 411, 1990

13. Cournos F, McKinnon K, Stanley B. Involuntary medication: Outcome in a state hospital system, American Journal of Psychiatry, 148: 489-494, 1991

14. Cournos F, Empfield M, Horwath E, McKinnon K, Meyer I, Schrage H, Currie C, Agosin B. HIV seroprevalence among patients admitted to two psychiatric hospitals, American Journal of Psychiatry 148: 1225 - 1230, 1991

15. Meyer I, Cournos F, Empfield M, Agosin B, Floyd P. HIV Prevention among psychiatric inpatients: A pilot intervention study, Psychiatric Quarterly, 63: 187-197, 1992

16. Empfield M, Cournos F, Meyer I, McKinnon K, Horwath E, Silver M, Schrage H, Herman R. HIV seroprevalence among homeless patients admitted to a psychiatric inpatient unit, American Journal of Psychiatry, 150: 47-52, 1993

17. Meyer I, McKinnon K, Cournos F, et al: HIV seroprevalence among long-stay psychiatric inpatients, Hospital and Community Psychiatry, 44: 282-284, 1993

18. McKinnon K, Cournos F, Meyer-Bahlburg HFL, Guido JR, Caraballo LR, Margoshes ES, Herman R, Gruen RS, Exner TM: Reliability of sexual risk behavior interviews with psychiatric patients, American Journal of Psychiatry, 150: 972-974, 1993

19. Meyer I, Cournos F, Empfield M, Schrage H, Silver M, Rubin M, Weinstock A. HIV seroprevalence and clinical characteristics of the mentally ill homeless, Journal of Social Distress and the Homeless, 2: 103-116, 1993

20. Cournos F. Do psychiatric patients need greater protection than medical patients when they consent to treatment? Psychiatric Quarterly, 64: 319-329, 1993

21. Cournos F, McKinnon K, Meyer-Bahlburg HFL, Guido J, Meyer I, Margoshes E, Agosin B, Empfield M: HIV risk activity among persons with severe mental illness: Preliminary findings, Hospital and Community Psychiatry, 44:1104-1106, 1993

22. Cournos F, Faulkner LR, Fitzgerald L, Griffith E, Munetz MR, Winick B. Report of the Task Force on Consent to Voluntary Hospitalization, Bulletin of the Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, 21: 293-307, 1993

23. Cournos F. The role of the paraprofessional in the management of life-threatening psychiatric illness, Loss, Grief, and Care, 7:39-43, 1993

24. Cournos F, Guido J, Coomaraswamy S, Meyer-Bahlburg HFL, Sugden R, Horwath E. Sexual activity and risk for HIV among patients with schizophrenia, American Journal of Psychiatry, 151:228-232, 1994

25. Herman R, Kaplan M, Satriano J, Cournos F, McKinnon K. HIV prevention with people with serious mental illness: Staff training and institutional attitudes. Psychosocial Rehabilitation Journal, 17:97-103, 1994

26. Cournos F, Horwath E, Guido J, McKinnon K, Hopkins N. HIV-1 infection in severely ill psychiatric inpatients in New York City, AIDS Care, 6:443-452, 1994.

27. Meyer I, Empfield M, Engel D, Cournos F. Characteristics of HIV positive chronic mentally ill inpatients, Psychiatric Quarterly, 6:201-208, 1995

28. Caton CLM, Shrout PE, Dominguez B, Eagle PF, Opler LA, Cournos F. Risk factors for homelessness among women with schizophrenia, American Journal of Public Health, 85: 1153-1156, 1995

29. Horwath E, Cournos F, McKinnon K, Guido JR, Herman R. Illicit drug injection among psychiatric patients without a primary substance abuse diagnosis, Psychiatric Services, 47:181-185, 1996

30. McKinnon K, Cournos F, Sugden R, Guido JR, Herman R. The contribution of psychiatric symptoms and AIDS knowledge to HIV risk behaviors among people with mental illness, Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, 57: 506-513, 1996

31. Cournos F, McKinnon K. HIV seroprevalence among people with severe mental illness in the United States: A critical review, Clinical Psychology Review, 17: 259-269, 1997

32. McKinnon K, Carey MP, Cournos F. Research on HIV, AIDS, and severe mental illness: Recommendations from the NIMH national conference, Clinical Psychology Review, 17: 327-331, 1997

33. Cournos F, Herman R, Kaplan M, McKinnon K. AIDS prevention for people with severe mental illness, Journal of Practical Psychiatry and Behavioral Health, 3: 285-292, 323-324, 1997

34. Caton CLM, Cournos F, Felix A, Wyatt RJ. Childhood experiences and current adjustment of offspring of indigent patients with schizophrenia, Psychiatric Services, 49:86-90, 1998

35. Caton CLM, Cournos F, Dominguez B. Parenting and adjustment in schizophrenia, Psychiatric Services, 50: 239-243, 1999.

36. Sullivan G, Koegel P, Kanouse DE, , Cournos F, McKinnon K, Young AS, Bean D. HIV and people with serious mental illness: The public sector’s role in reducing HIV risk and improving care, Psychiatric Services, 50: 648-652, 1999.

37. McKinnon K, Cournos F, Herman R, Satriano J, Silver B, Puello I. AIDS-related services and training in outpatient mental health care agencies in New York, Psychiatric Services, 50:1225-1228, 1999.

38. Cournos F, Parental death in childhood: Theory and therapy, Journal of Practical Psychiatry and Behavioral Health, 5:336-345, 1999.

39. Cournos F, Le Melle S. The young chronic patient: A look back. Psychiatric Services, 51:996-1000, 2000.

40. McDaniel JS, Chung JY, Brown L, Cournos F, Forstein M, Goodkin K, Lyketsos C. Practice guidelines for the treatment of patients with HIV/AIDS, American Journal of Psychiatry, 157, 11S: 1-62, 2000.

41. Tillinghast E, Cournos F. Assessing the risk of recidivism in physicians with histories of sexual misconduct, Journal of Forensic Sciences, 45: 1184-1189, 2000.

42. Cournos F, McKinnon K, Rosner J. HIV among individuals with severe mental illness, Psychiatric Annals, 31: 50-56, 2001.

43. McKinnon K, Cournos F, Herman R. A lifetime alcohol or other drug use disorder predicts sexual risk for HIV infection among people with severe mental illness, AIDS and Behavior, 5:233-240, 2001.

44. Cournos F. On mourning and adaptation following the death of a parent in childhood, Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis, 29:137-145, 2001.

45. McKinnon K, Wainberg ML, Cournos F. HIV/AIDS preparedness in mental health care agencies with high and low substance use disorder caseloads, Journal of Substance Abuse, 13:127-135, 2001.

46. McKinnon K, Cournos F, Herman R. HIV and people with chronic mental illness, Psychiatric Quarterly, 73:17-31, 2002

47. Cournos F. The trauma of profound childhood loss: A personal and professional perspective. Psychiatric Quarterly, 73:145-156, 2002.

48. McKinnon K, Cournos F, Wainberg M, Herman R. Epidemiology and management issues in people with severe mental illness and AIDS. Directions in Psychiatry, 22:215-230, 2002.

49. Walkup J, Satriano J, Barry, D, Sadler P, Cournos F. HIV testing policy and serious mental illness. American Journal of Public Health, 92:1931-1939, 2002.

50. Cournos, F. Parental death and foster care: A personal and professional perspective. Journal of Infant, Child, and Adolescent Psychotherapy, 3:342-355, 2004.

51. Cournos F, McKinnon K, Sullivan S. Schizophrenia and co-morbid human immunodeficiency virus or hepatitis C. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry 66 (S6):22-33, 2005.

52. Cournos F, McKinnon K, Wainberg ML. What can mental health interventions contribute to the global struggle against HIV/AIDS? World Psychiatry, 3:135-141, 2005.

53. Forstein M, Cournos F, Douaihy A, Goodkin K, Wainberg ML, Waypenyi KH: Guideline Watch: Practice guideline for the treatment of patients with HIV/AIDS. Arlington, VA: American Psychiatric Association, 2006. Available online at http://www.psych.org/psych_pract/treatg/pg/prac_guide.cfm.

54. Rosenberg SD, Lu W, Mueser KT, Jankowski MK, Cournos F. Correlates of adverse childhood events among adults with schizophrenia spectrum disorders. Psychiatric Services 58:245-253, 2007.

55. Wainberg ML, McKinnon K, Mattos P, Pinto D, Elkington KS, Mann C, Oliveira S, Remien R, González MA, Cournos F, PRISSMA Project. Is it Brazilian? A model for adapting evidence-based behavioral interventions to a new culture: HIV prevention for psychiatric patients in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. AIDS and Behavior, 11:872-883, 2007.

56. Berkman A, Pilowsky DJ, Zybert PA, Herman DB, Conover S, LeMelle S, Cournos F, Hoepner LA, Susser E. HIV prevention with severely mentally ill men: A randomized controlled trial. AIDS Care 19:579-588, 2007.

57. Wainberg ML, McKinnon K, Elkington KS, Mattos PE, Mann CG, Pinto DS, Otto-Salaj L, Cournos F, PRISSMA Investigators. HIV risk behaviors among outpatients with severe mental illness in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. World Psychiatry, in press.

58. Mangurian C. Harre E, Booty A, Reliford A, Cournos F. Improving support of residents after a patient suicide: A residency case study, submitted.

BOOK CHAPTERS

1. Cournos F. Hospitalization outcome studies: implications for the treatment of the very ill patient, in Marcus E. (ed.) Intensive Hospital Treatment of Psychotic and Borderline Patients. Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 10: 165-176, 1987.

2. Bailous E, Cournos F. The mobile geriatrics team: outreach for patients with Alzheimer's disease, in Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders, Mayeux R, Gurland B, Barret VW, et al. (eds.), Springfield, Illinois, Charles C. Thomas, pp. 103-106, 1988.

3. Sarti P, Cournos F. Medication and psychotherapy in the treatment of chronic schizophrenia, in Marcus E. (ed.) Combined Psychotherapy and Pharmacotherapy. Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 13: 215-228, 1990.

4. Cournos F. Psychosocial interventions with cancer patients and their families, in Communicating with Cancer Patients and Their Families, Blitzer A, Kutscher AH, Klagsburn SC, et al (eds.) Philadelphia, Pa, Charles Press, pp. 45 - 48, 1990.

5. Bloche MG, Cournos F. Mental health policy for the 1990's: Tinkering in the interstices, in Health Policy and the Disadvantaged, Brown LD (ed.), Durham, NC, Duke University Press, 1991.

6. Sheehy M, Cournos F. What is mental illness? in the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons Complete Home Guide to Mental Health, Kass FI, Oldham JM, Pardes H, (eds.), New York, Henry Holt & Co, pp. 3-17, 1992.

7. Kass FI, Silver JM, Stevenson E, Cournos F. Is treatment effective? in the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons Complete Home Guide to Mental Health, Kass FI, Oldham JM, Pardes H, (eds.), New York, Henry Holt & Co, pp. 81-92, 1992.

8. Cournos F, Petrila J. Legal and ethical issues, in The Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons Complete Home Guide to Mental Health, Kass FI, Oldham JM, Pardes H, (eds.), New York, Henry Holt and Co, pp. 419-427, 1992.

9. Pardes H, Kass FI, Cournos F. National policy and mental health, in The Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons Complete Home Guide to Mental Health, Kass FI, Oldham JM, Pardes H, (eds.), New York, Henry Holt & Co. pp. 428-435, 1992.

10. White MD, White CA, Cournos F, McKinnon K, Stanley B, Storch D, Schwartz HI. Therapeutic issue I: Involuntary treatment and involuntary medication, in Issues in Clinical Psychology, Mindell JA (ed.), Wm. C. Brown Group, Dubuque, IA, 1992.

11. Cournos F, Horwath E. Inpatient psychotherapy with chronically mentally ill patients, in Less Time to Do More: Psychotherapy on the Short-Term Inpatient Unit, Liebenluft E, Tasman A, Green SA (eds.), Washington, D.C. American Psychiatric Press, Inc., pp. 143-162, 1993.

12. Cournos F (Chairperson), Faulkner LR, Griffith E, Munetz MR, Winick B, Fitzgerald L. Task Force on Consent to Voluntary Hospitalization, Task Force Report 34, Washington, DC, American Psychiatric Association, 1993.

13. Cournos F, Horwath E. HIV and AIDS, in Core Readings in Psychiatry: An Annotated Guide to the Literature, Sacks MH, Sledge WH, Warren C (eds.), Washington DC, American Psychiatric Press, Inc., pp. 223-233, 1995.

14. Cournos F, Cabaniss D. Clinical evaluation and treatment planning: A multimodal approach, in Psychiatry, Tasman A, Kay J, Lieberman JA (eds.) Philadelphia, W.B. Saunders Co., pp. 477-497, 1996.

15. Cournos F. Epidemiology of HIV in HIV and People With Severe Mental Illness, New Haven, Yale University Press, pp. 3-16; 267-271, 1996.

16. Cournos F, McKinnon K. Substance use and HIV risk among people with severe mental illness, in National Institute on Drug Abuse Research Monograph Series, 172: 110-129, 1997.

17. Horwath E, Cournos F. Schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders, in Psychiatry, Cutler J, Marcus E (eds.) Philadelphia, W.B. Saunders Co., pp. 64-80, 1998.

18. Cournos F. The impact of growing up orphaned on decision making capacity, in The Adolescent Alone, Blustein J, Dubler N, Levine C (eds), Cambridge University Press, pp. 111-120, 1999.

19. McKinnon, K., Cournos F. HIV in people with serious mental illness, in Sexuality and Serious Mental Illness, Buckley PF (ed.) Harwood Academic Publishers, pp. 133-158, 1999.

20. Bongiovi ME, Cournos F. Introduction to medical interviewing, in Psychiatry, Kay J, Tasman A. (eds.), Philadelphia, W.B. Saunders Co., pp. 24-40, 2000.

21. Wainberg M, Forstein M, Berkman A, Cournos F. Essential medical facts for mental health practitioners, in What Mental Health Practitioners Need to Know About HIV and AIDS. New Directions for Mental Health Services, 87:3-15, 2000.

22. Wainberg M, Cournos F. Adherence to treatment, in What Mental Health Practitioners Need to Know About HIV and AIDS. New Directions for Mental Health Services 87:85-93, 2000.

23. Cournos F. Psychodynamic Couples therapy, in Encyclopedia of Psychotherapy, New York, Academic Press, 431-437, 2002.

24. Wainberg M, Cournos F, McKinnon K, Berkman A. HIV and hepatitis C in patients with schizophrenia, in Medical Illness in Schizophrenia, Meyer JM, Nasrallah HA (eds.), Washington DC, American Psychiatric Press, Inc., 115-140, 2003.

25. Cournos F, Cabaniss D. Clinical evaluation and treatment planning: A multimodal approach, in Psychiatry, Second Edition, Tasman A, Kay J, Lieberman JA (eds.) London, John Wiley and Sons, Ltd., 2003.

26. Cournos F. Lessons for high-risk populations from attachment research and September 11: Helping children in foster care, in Trauma and Human Bonds, New York, Analytic Press, 255-271, 2003.

27. McKinnon K, Cournos F, Herman R, LeMelle S. HIV and people with serious and persistent mental illness, in HIV and Psychiatry, Citron K, Brouilette MJ, Beckett A, (eds.) Cambridge University Press, 138-152, 2005.

28. Horwath E, Cournos F. Psychotic disorders associated with HIV/AIDS, in Psychiatric Aspects of HIV/AIDS, Fernandez F, Ruiz P (eds.), Baltimore MD, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 119-126, 2006.

29. Cournos F, McKinnon K. Epidemiology of psychiatric disorders associated with HIV and AIDS, in Comprehensive Textbook of AIDS Psychiatry, Cohen MA, Gorman JM (eds.), New York, Oxford University Press, 39-48, 2008

30. Cournos F, Lowenthal D, Cabaniss D. Clinical evaluation and treatment planning: A multimodal approach, in Psychiatry, Third Edition, Tasman A, Kay J, Lieberman JA Barnhill Chpt (eds.) London, John Wiley and Sons, Ltd., in press.

31. Cournos F, LeMelle L. Hospital based community mental health outpatient services, in Textbook of Hospital Psychiatry, Scharfstein (ed). American Psychiatric Press Inc, in press.

32. Cournos F. Overview of connection: Discussion of the case of Stephen Franken, in the Approach to the Psychiatric Patient, Barnhill JW (ed). Washington, DC, American Psychiatric Press Inc., in press.

33. Wainberg M, Cournos F, McKinnon K, Guimaraes M, Berkman A. HIV and hepatitis C in patients with schizophrenia, in Medical Illness in Schizophrenia, Meyer JM, Nasrallah HA (eds.), Washington DC, American Psychiatric Press, Inc., 2nd edition, in press.

BOOKS

1. Cournos F. and Bakalar N. (eds.), HIV and People With Severe Mental Illness, New Haven, Yale University Press, 1996

2. Cournos, F. City of One: A Memoir, New York, W.W. Norton, 1999 (hardcover). New York, Penguin Putnam, Inc., 2000 (paperback); iUniverse, 2006 (paperback).

3. Cournos F and Forstein M. (eds.) What Mental Health Practitioners Need to Know About HIV and AIDS. New Directions for Mental Health Services 87, San Francisco, Jossey Bass, Inc. Publishers, 2000.

4. Cournos F, Wainberg M, Horwath E, ¬Psychiatric Care in Anti-retroviral (ARV) Therapy (for Second Level Care), Fieldtest Version, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, 2005.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS (Letters, Reports, Book reviews, etc.)

1. Cournos F, Herman R. A federal "shell game" on mental disability. New York Times, February 1, 1982

2. Cournos F. Unified Services. Hospital and Community Psychiatry, 34:647, 1983

3. Mumford E. et al. (including F. Cournos). Assessment of the need for mental health services in Brooklyn. New York State Psychiatric Institute, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, 2 volumes, 1985

4. Cournos F. Family reactions to chronic mental illness. Archives of the Foundation of Thanatology, 12:2, 1986

5. Cournos F. Homelessness: A growing health care problem, Archives of the Foundation of Thanatology, 12:3, 1986

6. Cournos F, Horwath E. Confining AIDS patients, Hospital and Community Psychiatry 39:671, 1988

7. Gewirtz G, Horwath E, Cournos F, Empfield M. Patients at risk for HIV infection, Hospital and Community Psychiatry 39:1311-1312, 1988

8. Cournos F. The case of Joyce Brown, Hospital and Community Psychiatry 40:1198, 1989

9. Cournos F. Clinical services for schizophrenia, Psychiatric News, February 2, 1990

10. Cournos F, McKinnon K, Stanley B. Effect of involuntary medication, American Journal of Psychiatry 148:1622-1623, 1991

11. Cournos F. Factors in homelessness among psychiatric patients, American Journal of Psychiatry 149:279, 1992

12. Cournos F, McKinnon K, Stanley B. Involuntary interventions: Does the benefit exceed the cost? American Journal of Psychiatry, 149: 425-426, 1992

13. Kaplan M, Herman R, Cournos F, Bailum S, Sugden R. HIV Prevention for People With Mental Illness: A Training Manual for Mental Health Professionals, New York State Psychiatric Institute, 1993

14. Cournos F. HIV/AIDS and People With Mental Illness, pamphlet produced by the American Psychiatric Association and the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill, 1994.

15. Cournos F. Book reviews, Understanding AIDS: A Guide for Mental Health Professionals (Kalichman SC); Strong Shadows: Scenes from an Inner City AIDS Clinic (Zuger A); and The Gravest Show on Earth: America in the Age of AIDS (Burkett E), Psychiatric Services 47:657-658, 1996.

16. Cournos F, Bakalar N. Mandatory HIV testing for the mentally ill, New England Journal of Medicine, 337: 1014-1015, 1997.

17. McKinnon K, Cournos F. Datapoints: HIV infection linked to substance use among hospitalized patients with severe mental illness, Psychiatric Services 49: 1269, 1998

18. Cournos F. A psychiatrist recalls life as a foster child, Psychiatric Services, 50: 479-480, 1999.

19. Cournos F. Book review, High-Risk Sexual Behavior: Interventions with Vulnerable Populations (Becker E, Rankin E, Rickel A), Psychiatric Services 50: 1239, 1999.

20. Horwath E, Cournos F. Neuroleptic malignant syndrome and AIDS. Psychiatric Services, 50:564, 1999.

21. Cournos F. Editorial comment: Mental health and HIV risk: What can be done? The AIDS Reader 11:204, 2001.

22. Cournos F. Book review, Children and HIV/AIDS (Anderson G, Ryan C, Taylor-Brown S, White-Gray M, eds), Psychiatric Services 52: 244, 2001.

23. Cournos F. Book review, Death of the Good Doctor: Lessons from the Heart of the AIDS Epidemic (Scannell K), Psychiatric Services 52: 1668, 2001.

24. Horwath E, Wainberg M, Cournos F. Psychiatric medications and HIV antiretrovirals: A guide to interactions for clinicians. Laminated booklet produced by the New York/New Jersey AIDS Education & Training Center with HRSA funding, 2004.

25. Cournos F. Book review, Combating AIDS: Communication Strategies in Action (Singhal A, Rogers EM), Psychiatric Services 55: 326, 2004

26. Cournos F. Book review, The Psychiatry of AIDS: a Guide to Diagnosis and Treatment (Treisman GJ, Angelino AF), Psychiatric Services 57: 227-278, 2006.

27. Cournos F. Book review, The Year of Magical Thinking (Didion J), Psychiatric Services 57: 1345-1346, 2006.

28. Cournos F. Book review, Healing Psychiatry (Brendel D): American Journal of Psychiatry, 165:140, 2008.

29. Cournos F, McKinnon K, Bradley M. Depression and HIV, World Psychiatric Association module, in press.