Using Information to Span the Physical health/ Mental health Divide
... data – the example of cancer • 20 % have significant psychiatric symptoms. • 150 consecutive patients with major depression. • ONLY 5% were receiving appropriate treatment ...
... data – the example of cancer • 20 % have significant psychiatric symptoms. • 150 consecutive patients with major depression. • ONLY 5% were receiving appropriate treatment ...
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... Practical information for US-trained psychiatrists is given in a concise chapter entitled Psychiatric Education, which contains a new section on examining psychiatrists and trainees. A chapter on Ethics and Forensic Psychiatry deals with a range of relevant topics, including confidentiality, and bou ...
... Practical information for US-trained psychiatrists is given in a concise chapter entitled Psychiatric Education, which contains a new section on examining psychiatrists and trainees. A chapter on Ethics and Forensic Psychiatry deals with a range of relevant topics, including confidentiality, and bou ...
Mental Illness — Comprehensive Evaluation or Checklist?
... understanding it. Clinicians need some heuristic concept of its nature, grasped in terms of cause or mechanism, to render it intelligible and to justify their actions in practice and research. The editors of the DSM-5 indicate that the new edition will provide new categories of disorders, alter some ...
... understanding it. Clinicians need some heuristic concept of its nature, grasped in terms of cause or mechanism, to render it intelligible and to justify their actions in practice and research. The editors of the DSM-5 indicate that the new edition will provide new categories of disorders, alter some ...
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... The RANZCP welcomes the release of the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care’s (ACSQHC) Australian Atlas of Healthcare Variation (the Atlas) and the insight this significant body of work offers. We have reviewed the mental health chapter of the Atlas with great interest, and we ...
... The RANZCP welcomes the release of the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care’s (ACSQHC) Australian Atlas of Healthcare Variation (the Atlas) and the insight this significant body of work offers. We have reviewed the mental health chapter of the Atlas with great interest, and we ...
Psychiatric Emergencies
... history and list of medications should be documented. If available, substantiating or conflicting data should be obtained from family members or other acquaintances. (3) Physical Exam and other studies All patients should have vital signs taken and receive a physical examination based on review of s ...
... history and list of medications should be documented. If available, substantiating or conflicting data should be obtained from family members or other acquaintances. (3) Physical Exam and other studies All patients should have vital signs taken and receive a physical examination based on review of s ...
HISTORY OF PSYCHIATRY SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP
... In 1967, eighteen-year-old Susanna Kaysen was admitted to McLean psychiatric hospital for eighteen months. Twentyfive years later, when she came to write her memoir Girl, Interrupted, Kaysen made a legal request for her case files and discovered she had been diagnosed with ‘borderline personality’. ...
... In 1967, eighteen-year-old Susanna Kaysen was admitted to McLean psychiatric hospital for eighteen months. Twentyfive years later, when she came to write her memoir Girl, Interrupted, Kaysen made a legal request for her case files and discovered she had been diagnosed with ‘borderline personality’. ...
Psychiatry - Auckland Doctors
... Organic pyschiatry: the psychological consequences of cerebral disorder (WA Lishman) APA Textbook of Neuropsychiatry (APA Press) An Introduction to the Psychotherapies (S Bloch) Psychodynamic Psychiatry in Clinical Practice (Glen Gabbard) Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for Psychiatric Problems: A Pract ...
... Organic pyschiatry: the psychological consequences of cerebral disorder (WA Lishman) APA Textbook of Neuropsychiatry (APA Press) An Introduction to the Psychotherapies (S Bloch) Psychodynamic Psychiatry in Clinical Practice (Glen Gabbard) Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for Psychiatric Problems: A Pract ...
A Brief History of Psychiatry: Evolving Paradigms
... Why care about the history of psychiatry? Our discipline is controversial We are relatively young and rapidly evolving We have many critics with disparate points of view. Why don’t they like us? We need to be able to critically view ourselves Historical perspective locally as well as globally An out ...
... Why care about the history of psychiatry? Our discipline is controversial We are relatively young and rapidly evolving We have many critics with disparate points of view. Why don’t they like us? We need to be able to critically view ourselves Historical perspective locally as well as globally An out ...
WPA forensic slides short - World Psychiatric Association
... • Punishment requires ‘guilty mind’, i.e. ability to form intent to commit crime • Someone with severe mental disorder may be ‘insane’, i.e. not guilty due to their disorder • McNaughten rules for insanity – used in common law countries - At the time of the act the defendant was: – “labouring under ...
... • Punishment requires ‘guilty mind’, i.e. ability to form intent to commit crime • Someone with severe mental disorder may be ‘insane’, i.e. not guilty due to their disorder • McNaughten rules for insanity – used in common law countries - At the time of the act the defendant was: – “labouring under ...
Monthly News - February 2012 - Department of Psychiatry, Case
... Department of Psychiatry February 13, 2012 Volume 6, Number 2 ...
... Department of Psychiatry February 13, 2012 Volume 6, Number 2 ...
HistoryofPsychiatry-DrDelgado
... 280 BC Theophrastus: 28 types of personalities or temperaments 270 BC First Psychiatric Hospital (Bagdad) 1247 Bethlam Hospital Funded (First Psych patient in 1930) today ...
... 280 BC Theophrastus: 28 types of personalities or temperaments 270 BC First Psychiatric Hospital (Bagdad) 1247 Bethlam Hospital Funded (First Psych patient in 1930) today ...
Dr. Hyla Cass: First Do No Harm
... Updated: 2010-05-19: Psychiatrist Hyla Cass describes how most psychiatrists simply label patients mentally ill based solely on symptoms and put them on dangerous and addictive drugs, instead of doing complete physical examinations to find and treat underlying medical conditions which can manifest a ...
... Updated: 2010-05-19: Psychiatrist Hyla Cass describes how most psychiatrists simply label patients mentally ill based solely on symptoms and put them on dangerous and addictive drugs, instead of doing complete physical examinations to find and treat underlying medical conditions which can manifest a ...
War, empire and the psychological subject
... homeless children in post-war Europe. The result was Maternal Care and Mental Health published in 1951. His main conclusions, that ‘the infant and young child should experience ...
... homeless children in post-war Europe. The result was Maternal Care and Mental Health published in 1951. His main conclusions, that ‘the infant and young child should experience ...
An Introduction to Psychiatry
... Functional conditions have usually been attributed to some kind of psychological stress, although in many cases it would be more honest to say that their cause is not known As knowledge advances, some ‘functional’ conditions are likely to be reclassified as ‘organic’ (as currently may be happening f ...
... Functional conditions have usually been attributed to some kind of psychological stress, although in many cases it would be more honest to say that their cause is not known As knowledge advances, some ‘functional’ conditions are likely to be reclassified as ‘organic’ (as currently may be happening f ...