Rebels Without a Cause? Adolescents and Their Antiheroes

By Jeff Q. Bostic, MD, EdD, Caroly Pataki, MD, Yanni Rho, MD, MPH, Steve Schlozman, MD, and Andrés Martin, MD, MPH | September 1, 2006

Dr Bostic is director of school psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and McLean Hospital, Belmont, Mass. Dr Pataki is director of residency training in child psychiatry at the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles. Dr Rho is a child psychiatry fellow at Cambridge Hospital, Mass. Dr Schlozman is associate director of residency training in child psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital and McLean Hospital. Dr Martin is director of the child psychiatry inpatient service at Yale-New Haven Hospital, Conn.Dr Bostic has received grant support and/or honoraria from Abbott, Forest, GlaxoSmithKline, Eli Lilly, and Pfizer. Dr Pataki has received research support from Eli Lilly, Pfizer, Novartis, and Shire. Drs Rho, Schlozman, and Martin have no financial relationships to disclose.

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