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May 26, 2010

NAMI Applauds America’s Exemplary Psychiatrists; 20th Anniversary Of Awards

The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) has honored 22 doctors as "Exemplary Psychiatrists" at the American Psychiatric Association (APA) annual conference in New Orleans. "We are proud to honor these psychiatrists for their exceptional dedication to people living with mental illness," said NAMI Executive Director Michael J. Fitzpatrick...

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November 11, 2009

The wall in the heads

Looking back on the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Somatosphere discusses how the wall became incorporated into German psychological theories as a diagnosis, a metaphor and a social force.Apparently, an East German psychiatrist even went as far as suggesting a specific diagnosis of 'the wall disorder':"...the book Die Berliner Mauerkrankheit (The Berlin wall disease) written by

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