"Re-sensitized" to Violence in the Wake of Newtown
Newtown’s loss has finally forced us to look more deeply at violence and the treatment of mental health within our society. (Source: Psychiatric Times)
Source: Psychiatric Times - January 22, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
The Trees of New Jersey
Here's to the lovely trees of Jersey, my home . . . town streets lined with linden and larch, . . . poplar and elm, flowered locusts scenting (Source: Psychiatric Times)
Source: Psychiatric Times - January 18, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Treatment Implications for Comorbid Diabetes Mellitus and Depression
The diagnosis of depression in the context of diabetes and other chronic medical conditions can be challenging. (Source: Psychiatric Times)
Source: Psychiatric Times - January 18, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Identifying and Treating Common Psychiatric Conditions Comorbid with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis and/or Fibromyalgia
This article reviews the diagnostic criteria for both myalgic encephalomyelitis and fibromyalgia and describes how to differentiate them from depressive and anxiety disorders, the psychiatric conditions with which they are most often confused. (Source: Psychiatric Times)
Source: Psychiatric Times - January 18, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Identifying and Treating Common Psychiatric Conditions Comorbid With
This article reviews the diagnostic criteria for both myalgic encephalomyelitis and fibromyalgia and describes how to differentiate them from depressive and anxiety disorders, the psychiatric conditions with which they are most often confused. (Source: Psychiatric Times)
Source: Psychiatric Times - January 18, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Comorbidity In Psychiatric Disorders: A Literature Review
A list of recent articles highlighting the complexity of psychiatric and systemic illness, both in terms of overlapping clinical presentation and in the degrees to which systemic illness and psychiatric illness affect each other. (Source: Psychiatric Times)
Source: Psychiatric Times - January 18, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Intimate Portrait: Terry Smolar, PhD
Being a Therapist features intimate portraits of psychotherapists in their own work spaces. An excerpt of his interview with Terry Smolar, PhD, follows. (Source: Psychiatric Times)
Source: Psychiatric Times - January 18, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Introduction: The Integrated Approach to Addressing Comorbidities—Part 1
These articles illustrate the variety and complexity of problems associated with comorbidity in psychiatric disorder. (Source: Psychiatric Times)
Source: Psychiatric Times - January 18, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Comorbid Movement and Psychiatric Disorders
The goal of this article is to improve recognition of comorbid psychiatric and movement disorders and to help the reader formulate a management strategy using a multidisciplinary approach. (Source: Psychiatric Times)
Source: Psychiatric Times - January 18, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
DSM-5: If You Don't Like the Effects, Look at the Causes
The Hippocratic phrase is: “As to diseases, try to help, or at least not harm.” By sacrificing science to “pragmatism,” all versions of DSM prevent the profession from identifying diseases, making it harder to help, and ensuring that harm will ensue. (Source: Psychiatric Times)
Source: Psychiatric Times - January 17, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
New Claims and Findings for Ketamine in Severe Depression
People who weren't getting out of bed are getting up and doing productive things. They are re-engaging with their families, and they are focusing on things they want to accomplish before they die. (Source: Psychiatric Times)
Source: Psychiatric Times - January 17, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Police Encounters With the Mentally Ill After Deinstitutionalization
Mental health professionals, state-run forensic services, and law enforcement agencies need to come together and discuss the most efficient and safe models when confronting psychiatric emergencies to improve and expand these practices across America. (Source: Psychiatric Times)
Source: Psychiatric Times - January 17, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Will 2013 Be a Lucky Year for Psychiatry?
In some expected and unexpected ways, the year 2012 seemed to be a watershed year for psychiatry. (Source: Psychiatric Times)
Source: Psychiatric Times - January 16, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Context Does Not Determine “Disorderness” or Normality
In part 1 of this essay, I argued that panic attacks are nearly always pathological and disordered states, even when they occur in an understandable context. The issue of context and its relationship to disorderness extends well beyond panic attacks: it arises in nearly all psychiatric diagnoses not explicitly defined contextually. (Source: Psychiatric Times)
Source: Psychiatric Times - January 15, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Why Panic Attacks Are Nearly Always Pathological
Because panic attacks per se appear predictive of subsequent psychopathology, one proposal for DSM-5 is to rate panic attacks as a separate dimension of pathology, across all mental disorders. (Source: Psychiatric Times)
Source: Psychiatric Times - January 12, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
