There's a paradox at the heart of modern psychiatry, according to an important new paper by Dr Charles E. Dean, Psychopharmacology: A house divided.It's a long and slightly rambling article, but Dean's central point is pretty simple. The medical/biological model of psychiatry assumes that there are such things as psychiatric diseases. Something biological goes wrong, presumably in the brain, and
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September 13, 2010
Shotgun Psychiatry
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July 25, 2010
July 23, 2010
A Blood Test For Depression?
Blood tests have been extremely important tools aiding doctors in making medical diagnoses and in guiding the treatment of many diseases. However, psychiatry is one area of medicine where there are few diagnostic blood tests. New scientific fields may someday generate blood tests that can be used for these purposes...
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June 25, 2010
A Psychiatry of Tomorrow: DSM-5 and Beyond
When I was an undergraduate studying molecular biology in the early 1990s when the Human Genome Project had just begun, my required coursework included several lectures on the ethical implications of sequencing, understanding, and ultimately being able to manipulate the "code of life."
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June 21, 2010
Rape, Psychiatry, and Constitutional Rights—Hard Cases Make For Very Bad Law
The most disturbing turbulence at the boundary between psychiatry and the law is the misuse of a makeshift psychiatric diagnosis ("Paraphilia Not Otherwise Specified, nonconsent") to justify the involuntary, indefinite psychiatric commitment of rapists.
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Short Placements Could Switch Medical Students On To Psychiatry, UK
It's well known that psychiatry suffers from an image problem, with many medical students not viewing it as an attractive career option compared to other specialties...
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June 9, 2010
Ethics and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Avoiding Confidentiality Conflicts
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Psychiatry in the Era of Neuroethics
Ethical Questions at the Intersection of Neurotechnology and Psychiatry
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June 8, 2010
June 2, 2010
Minister Moloney At Laying Of Foundation Stone In 100 Bed Unit In St Mary’s Care Centre, Mullingar, Ireland
Mr. John Moloney, T.D, Minister for State with responsibility for Disability and Mental Health was in Mullingar for the Laying of the Foundation Stone Ceremony in St Mary's Care Centre. The development comprises 52 beds for older persons which will replace the beds in St. Mary's, and 48 beds for the Psychiatry of Old Age, to replace those beds in St. Loman's...
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