Thursday, May 31, 2012

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via psychiatry - Google Blog Search by unknown on 5/29/12
Psychiatric Hammer Joel Wade Daily Bell DSM-5 APA Diagnostic Statistical Manual Mental Disorders Thedailybell.com.

The use of organ extracts to treat psychiatric disorder in the interwar period is an episode in the history of psychiatry which has largely been forgotten. An analysis of case‐notes from The Maudsley Hospital from the period 1923–1938 shows that the prescription of extracts taken from animal ...


How Psychiatry Mistreats People of Color
AlterNet
Research has also shown the black students are disciplined more severely than white students, even when they commit offenses that are less serious. The National Education Policy Center at the University of Colorado reported (PDF) that more than 30 ...

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Study: Marijuana Linked to Lower Mortality Rate for Patients with Psychotic ...
AlterNet
The use of cannabis is associated with lower mortality risk in patients with schizophrenia and related psychotic disorders, according to a forthcoming study to be published in the Journal of Psychiatric Research. (Read the abstract of the study online ...

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via Clinical Psychiatry News by a.ault@elsevier.com on 5/31/12
They may have come relatively late to the party, but physician-led political action committees have become true players on the political stage and are poised to exert their influence in this year’s...

Were any more proof needed that APA has forfeited its right to monopoly control of psychiatric diagnosis, this is the smoking gun. Psychiatric diagnosis has become too important to be left in the hands of a small, withering, ...

This study evaluated the structure and validity of the use of the 18‐item Interpersonal Needs Questionnaire (INQ‐18), a measure of thwarted belongingness (TB) and perceived burdensomeness (PB), among older adults.MethodCommunity‐dwelling older adults (N = 284; mean age = 73 years; age ran...

via Psychology, Philosophy and Real Life by Gordon Shippey on 5/31/12
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While optical illusions are fun and familiar, we are discovering other illusions within our own minds that have the power to amaze and upset some of our dearest beliefs about ourselves.
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'Truman show' delusion: Believing your life is a reality TV show
msnbc.com
For example, in this month's issue of the International Journal of Social Psychiatry, researchers from Maywood University studied records from a state psychiatric institution across the last century and found that while the categories of delusions were ...