Almost everyone is pretty screwed up. That's not my opinion, that's official - according to a new paper in the latest British Journal of Psychiatry.Make sure you're sitting down for this. No less than 48% of the population have "personality difficulties", 21% have a full blown "personality disorder", and 7% have it even worse with "complex" or "severe" personality disorders.That's quite a lot of
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September 4, 2010
Normal? You're Weird - Psychiatrists
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September 2, 2010
Start Of School Marks Onset Of “Seasons Of Anxiety”
With summer fading, anxiety is on the rise for some students anticipating the return of school. But it isn't just the first days of classes that can provoke angst -- anxiety in school is seasonal and age dependent, say pediatric psychiatrists. And, they add, these issues are often predictable and highly treatable...
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Demand for Psychiatrists Continues to Grow
If surveys conducted by physician recruiting companies accurately reflect current trends in the job market, the news is very good for psychiatrists-and less promising for many patients with mental health disorders.
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July 8, 2010
First class in the mile high therapy club
Vanity Fair has a great article that charts the very early days of LSD. Before the drug became a symbol of hippy psychedelia, it was used by a select group of psychiatrists to facilitate 'LSD psychotherapy' and became popular among the Hollywood set of the 1950s.To understand why LSD had such a grip on the American psychiatrists who had access to it, it's useful to know some background about how
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June 25, 2010
Young People With Autism Are ‘lost In Transition’
Young people with autism are often "lost in transition" and not diagnosed or treated effectively as teenagers, an eminent neuropsychiatrist has said. They end up being excluded from school, or never going to school, and rarely come to the attention of psychiatrists...
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June 10, 2010
An Ethical Way To Get Patient Referrals?
Some psychiatrists include "testimonials" from their patients on their web sites. Such recommendations are a major source of new referrals. . .but is this an ethical way of promoting my clinical services?
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June 8, 2010
Pray For Our Children
A quarter of a century ago, E. Mansell Pattison provided the invocation for the opening of the 1985 annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association. It was called "A Prayer for Psychiatrists" and was so well received, that it was reprinted in [Pastoral Psychology (1987;35:187-188,), a now defunct journal. Dr Pattison, both a psychiatrist and a minister, died shortly thereafter, in 1989.
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June 7, 2010
How Can Medical Schools Graduate Students Who Are Empathic?
Empathy is the ability to put yourself in someone else's shoes and understand what they are feeling. This is something that psychiatrists try to do in our everyday work. Those of us who have worked in medical schools have struggled with the question of whether or not we can teach this to young men and women who are learning to be doctors or whether it is something that they either have or do not
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June 5, 2010
The Interface Between Cancer and Psychiatry
As a psychiatrist who has lymphoma, I have developed a deep understanding of the ways in which our training can help us help patients who find themselves forced to deal with the complicated emotional aspects that accompany various forms of cancer. I hope these insights will be useful to psychiatrists as they wrestle with the problems that plague their patients who are coping with cancer.
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DEA e-Prescribing Rules Present Challenges
As if psychiatrists didn't have enough to worry about with regard to complying with upcoming Medicare e-Prescribing dictates, there is now a second layer of complication
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