Antidepressants and Pregnancy
Approximately 18.4% of women suffer from antenatal depression, and as many as 19.2% experience postpartum depression. (Source: Psychiatric Times)
Source: Psychiatric Times - April 10, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Assessing Violence Risk: A Meteorological Analogy
Both clinicians and weather forecasters employ the same general process of information gathering, analysis, and reaching a conclusion. (Source: Psychiatric Times)
Source: Psychiatric Times - April 10, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Assertiveness Training
spring-time territory, raucous and free as a New Orleans . . . trumpet, my patient locked-in to the wild tune (Source: Psychiatric Times)
Source: Psychiatric Times - April 9, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
6 Ways for Psychiatry Residents to Find Their Niche
Carve out a career in the area of psychiatry that interests you. If you’re drawn to specialized topics, such as atypical bipolar disorder, club drugs, glutamate transporters, or genetic links to autism, then pursue those avenues. Here, advice to psychiatry residents. (Source: Psychiatric Times)
Source: Psychiatric Times - April 9, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Helping Victims of Sexual Assault and Rape
April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month. Because the aftermath of sexual violence can result in suicidal feelings, depression, PTSD, and other mental disorders, clinicians play an important role in treating both victims and perpetrators and helping to prevent further damage. (Source: Psychiatric Times)
Source: Psychiatric Times - April 9, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
White House Unveils BRAIN Initiative
President Barack Obama proposed a new research initiative designed to further study and better understand, treat, prevent, and cure brain disorders including Alzheimer disease, traumatic brain injury, autism, posttraumatic stress disorder, and schizophrenia. (Source: Psychiatric Times)
Source: Psychiatric Times - April 5, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
What's Normal? What's Not?
The liveliest debate in psychiatry today is where to draw the line between mental disorder and mental health. So much rides on the decision—who gets treated and how, who pays for it, whether a criminal is deemed mad or bad, whether someone gets damages in tort cases, who qualifies for disability payments and eligibility for extra school services, whether someone can adopt a child—and there's a whole lot more. (Source: Psychiatric Times)
Source: Psychiatric Times - April 2, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
God’s Psychiatrist: An April Fool’s Tale in 3 Chapters
In our time, it seems that the number of psychiatrists who believe in a God are increasing, parallel with the decreasing influence of Freud’s ideas. (Source: Psychiatric Times)
Source: Psychiatric Times - April 1, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Diagnosis and its Discontents: The DSM Debate Continues
When critics of psychiatric diagnosis insist that terms like “schizophrenia” or “bipolar disorder” are inherently stigmatizing, they are unwittingly perpetuating the very prejudice they wish to end. It is time to shine a bright light on this self-fulfilling prophecy. (Source: Psychiatric Times)
Source: Psychiatric Times - March 29, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
For Persons With Serious Mental Illness, Weight Loss Is Possible
Overweight and obesity are epidemic among persons with serious mental illness, yet weight-loss trials systematically exclude these patients. A new study found that a behavioral weight-loss program significantly reduced weight in in this vulnerable population. (Source: Psychiatric Times)
Source: Psychiatric Times - March 26, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Treatment Resistance in a Woman With Borderline Personality Disorder
Patients with borderline personality disorder or narcissistic personality disorder (or both) can feel entitled to special treatment and often seek only approving forms of attention from those who treat them. How would you help this patient? (Source: Psychiatric Times)
Source: Psychiatric Times - March 26, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Treatment of Psychiatric Disorders in Patients With HIV/AIDS
Mental illness is a risk factor for HIV infection. It brings a number of behavioral correlates that put patients at risk for getting infected. Here, Dr Glenn Treisman provides an overview of the treatment of psychiatric disorders in patients with HIV. (Source: Psychiatric Times)
Source: Psychiatric Times - March 25, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
5 Key Fantasies Embraced by DSM
While the diagnostic categories of DSM-III and DSM-IV (and soon DSM-5) have provided the basis for much useful research, little has been written about how much of DSM—and how much “evidence-based medicine”—is built on a foundation of fantasy. (Source: Psychiatric Times)
Source: Psychiatric Times - March 22, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Five Key Fantasies Embraced by DSM
While the diagnostic categories of DSM-III and DSM-IV (and soon DSM-5) have provided the basis for much useful research, little has been written about how much of DSM—and how much “evidence-based medicine”—is built on a foundation of fantasy. (Source: Psychiatric Times)
Source: Psychiatric Times - March 22, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
