Utopia: The Transition From Inpatient to Outpatient Psychiatry
Outpatient psychiatry is a critical experience in becoming an independent psychiatrist. (Source: Psychiatric Times)
Source: Psychiatric Times - March 20, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Nursing Home Rounds
The day began on a high note. As I sat and talked with an elderly patient sitting in her wheelchair, quiet, not remembering much, she suddenly broke out in song. (Source: Psychiatric Times)
Source: Psychiatric Times - March 19, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
How Frame Analysis Can Guide the Therapeutic Process
Frame analysis can not only help us to discern the roots of such standoffs but also to conceptualize specific ways of addressing the conflicts in therapeutic language with the patient, with the goal of forging an integrated approach to treatment. (Source: Psychiatric Times)
Source: Psychiatric Times - March 18, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
The Humanities and Psychiatry: The Rebirth of Mind
What place do the humanities have in psychiatry? One might as well ask: What place does the mind have in the brain? (Source: Psychiatric Times)
Source: Psychiatric Times - March 15, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Religion, Spirituality, and Psychiatry
Historically, there has been conflict between psychiatry and religion. (Source: Psychiatric Times)
Source: Psychiatric Times - March 15, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
DBT Holds Promise For Patients With Bipolar Disorder
Preliminary evidence shows that dialectical behavior therapy may be beneficial in treating patients with bipolar disorder. (Source: Psychiatric Times)
Source: Psychiatric Times - March 15, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Atheist With a Poet’s Heart
But old colleagues said . . . the holocaust made him an atheist with a poet's heart, . . . a Jew who loved to stand and chant David's psalms (Source: Psychiatric Times)
Source: Psychiatric Times - March 13, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Giftedness Should Not Be Confused With Mental Disorder
The 3% to 5% of kids who are particularly gifted are also at special risk for being tagged with an inappropriate diagnosis of mental disorder. Caution is necessary when diagnosing. (Source: Psychiatric Times)
Source: Psychiatric Times - March 13, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
The Little Man: Through the Cognitive Ether
As if there’s a little man inside the elderly patient's, it is dark all around him. To the front some light gets in through the eyes. Sounds come to him from a distance, muted, like in a heavy fog at night. Too much sensory information renders him overwhelmed and confused. (Source: Psychiatric Times)
Source: Psychiatric Times - March 13, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Clinical Manual of Alzheimer Disease and Other Dementias
After careful review, I must admit that this is one of the best clinical books I have read and an excellent manual for clinicians. (Source: Psychiatric Times)
Source: Psychiatric Times - March 13, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
The State of the Mental Health System
The federal government must realize that decades of allowing mental health care to go begging leaves a very weak chance of detecting or treating those who need help. (Source: Psychiatric Times)
Source: Psychiatric Times - March 13, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Will Choline Supplementation During Pregnancy Play a Role in Schizophrenia Prevention?
Schizophrenia has long been considered a neurodevelopmental disorder in which onset of diagnostic symptoms in late adolescence or adulthood is the end result of a decades-long interaction between genes and environment that begins in the womb. (Source: Psychiatric Times)
Source: Psychiatric Times - March 13, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Complementary and Alternative Treatments for Autism Spectrum Disorder
A recently published NIH study of 112 children suggested that some children might possibly outgrow autism. (Source: Psychiatric Times)
Source: Psychiatric Times - March 13, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Overdiagnosis: Examine the Assumptions, Anticipate New Bipolar Criteria
The risk of diluting true bipolar disorders with a fundamentally different disorder is likewise significant, as is the impact through this dilution on our ability to identify appropriate treatments when psychiatry has more targeted options in the future. (Source: Psychiatric Times)
Source: Psychiatric Times - March 13, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
The Cognitive Effects of ECT: Tolerability Versus Safety
In addition to having an excellent safety profile, ECT is widely acknowledged to be the most effective acute antidepressant treatment. (Source: Psychiatric Times)
Source: Psychiatric Times - March 13, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
