Saturday, June 15, 2013

Psychiatrists protest against disgraced academic's lecture at research centre - The Independent

Psychiatrists protest against disgraced academic's lecture at research centre - The Independent

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Psychiatrists protest against disgraced academic's lecture at research centre
The Independent
The decision by the Institute of Psychiatry at Kings College, in central London, Europe's largestpsychiatric research organisation, to invite Professor Charles Nemeroff, an expert in the treatment of depression, has split the psychiatric profession ...

Psychiatrist Exposes How Public Policies Have Devastated Health of Communities - Psychiatric News

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Psychiatrist Exposes How Public Policies Have Devastated Health of Communities
Psychiatric News
Terms such as “planned shrinkage,” “serial displacement,” and “Hope VI” are nowhere to be found in the lexicon of the average psychiatrist, but then again, Mindy Fullilove, M.D., is no averagepsychiatrist. She has dedicated her career to studying the ...

China Needs to Build Community Mental Health Structure - Psychiatric News

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China Needs to Build Community Mental Health Structure
Psychiatric News
Michael Phillips, M.D., an American psychiatrist and China mental health expert, and colleagues wrote April 29 in AJP in Advance that “this new law is a high-water mark for Chinese psychiatry, and potentially for global mental health.” The new law ...
Time to put our heads together on mental healthThe Canberra Times

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Bullying Exerts Psychiatric Effects Into Adulthood - HealthCanal.com

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Bullying Exerts Psychiatric Effects Into Adulthood
HealthCanal.com
Once considered a childhood rite of passage, bullying lingers well into adulthood. Bullies and victims alike are at risk for psychiatric problems such as anxiety, depression, substance abuse, and suicide when they become adults, reported a study ...

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Psychiatry faced three great quests over the last 30 years—the quest for valid classification systems, the quest for biological and psychological causal pathways in mental illness, and the quest for technological treatments used independently of ...

Caffeine withdrawal now considered a mental disorder in new psychiatry manual - Syracuse.com (blog)

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Caffeine withdrawal now considered a mental disorder in new psychiatry manual
Syracuse.com (blog)
That's how caffeine withdrawal is now classified in the American PsychiatricAssociation's new Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, considered the bible of mental health. To be officially diagnosed, you must have at least three of ... 
Psychiatrists need to be open to other fieldsFinancial Times
DSM-5 enters the diagnostic frayScience News

Caffeine addiction can have a serious impact on your health. Source: SuppliedThe Australian 
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Most victims of partner violence fail to use mental health services - Healio

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Most victims of partner violence fail to use mental health services
Healio
Most survivors of intimate partner violence had not used mental health services in the past year despite having access to those services, researchers reported. “Social stigmas, shame, privacy concerns, health care costs and lack of information may ...

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Evolutionary Psychiatry: Gut and Brain Again 

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A long time ago, when I was an intern, I would drive into the hospital for ultra long shifts. Day went into night into the next day. You might be lucky to get one day off in a month. It's illegal now to work interns as much as we were ...

David Brooks Doesn't Get Psychiatry | RealClearScience

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On Monday, David Brooks weighed in on the debate about the merits of the latest edition of the DSM-5, psychiatry's primary diagnostic manual for mental disorders. As often happens when a columnist parachutes into a ...

Bryan Appleyard » Blog Archive » Psychiatry on Trial

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Psychiatry on Trial. Sunday Times, 03 June 2013. Our Necessary Shadow: The Nature and Meaning of Psychiatry by Tom Burns Allen Lane £20/ebook £11.99 pp350. Cracked: Why Psychiatry is Doing More Harm than Good by James Davies ...

Oxford University Press rips American psychiatry, reveals the ... 

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Oxford University Press rips American psychiatry, reveals the following 13 examples of moral corruption and quackery.