Source: treatmentonline.com
A new study reveals the ineffectiveness of antipsychotic medication.
Source: thelistuniverse
"Mental disorders effect millions of people in the world and can lead to years of psychotherapy. In some cases, the psychological problem suffered is extremely rare or bizarre. This is a list of the ten most bizarre mental disorders...."
Source: The Sydney Morning Herald
Barely a week goes by when we don't hear of the crisis in mental health. The use of psychiatric terminology is also more and more colloquial. Just like fashion and baby names, language eventually filters down the social ladder.
Source: Nature News
Recordings from electrodes in the human brain may offer the first objective way to measure the intensity of pain. Researchers say that they have found a neural signal that correlates with the amount of pain that an individual feels.
Source: the Mail online
A woman who developed multiple personalities as the result of being abused as a child has sketched her alter egos — all 17 of them.
Source: Toronto
Public morality has long dictated that science stay away from pedophilia. That's beginning to change There's a lot we don't know about pedophilia, largely because we don't want to.
Source: newsweek.com
In a new book, a psychiatrist details his most challenging case, a woman with 17 personalities.
Source: Medical News Today
research revealing paranoid thoughts are commonplace. discussion of how paranoid thoughts develop, description of paranoid thoughts, treatment of paranoid thoughts.
Source: PhysOrg.com
What's wrong with being shy, and just when and how did bashfulness and other ordinary human behaviors in children and adults become psychiatric disorders treatable with powerful, potentially dangerous drugs, asks a Northwestern University scholar in a new book that already is cre …
Source: Google
BAGHDAD (AFP) — He lost two sons to car bombs. She lost her husband to a death squad. Both are depressed, weepy, anxious, filled with rage and in denial. The mental scars of the war in Iraq run deep and jagged.
Source: villagevoice.com
The things that have been done to Colleen Kelley's brain sound like scenes out of a retro psych ward where ice-pick lobotomies are still the norm and Nurse Ratched doles out electroshock. Her brain has been scanned, doused in experimental drugs, magnetized, and electrified.
Source: The L.A. Times
A respected scholar and USC law professor reveals her journey through the horrors and demons of mental illness. She has schizophrenia.
Source: The Last Psychiatrist
If you don't understand the title, it's likely you won't understand the article. It uses economics to explain the principle of moral hazard.
Source: Reuters
In 2004, 4,599 children and adults aged 10 to 24 committed suicide, the biggest rise in suicides in 15 years. Suicide was the third-leading cause of death in that age group, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.
Source: mentalhealthnotes.com
This week's edition deals with increases in children's mental health diagnosis, psychiatry and religion, colors affecting your moods, hyperactive kids, and your favorite tunes.
Once more our kids are about to be exploited, all to the greater good of psychiatry and Big Pharma. Over 300 articles listed in Google News yesterday screamed about some "new study" showing a huge increase in bipolar kids.
Source: PhysOrg.com
A nationwide survey of the religious beliefs and practices of American physicians has found that the least religious of all medical specialties is psychiatry.
Source: asuwebdevil.com
For some addicts, a casino can be the root of all evils. For others, a fix can come from visiting their favorite Web site, according to a study to be presented in November. "[I'm online] pretty much like, 24/7," said Brian Park, an accounting junior.
Source: MotherJones.com
Interesting "special report" on what seems to be a new (taxpayer funded) trend...taking "tough love" to another level. What do you think? What has worked for you? What has your experience been...as a teen? As a parent?
Source: The Witness
These pages contain first person accounts of abuse by health or social care workers. They are published here with permission of the authors.
Source: BBC News
There is to be an urgent review of the safety of mental health patients after a report that detailed alleged rapes and sexual assaults in psychiatric wards. Sexual assault cases are difficult to prosecute at the best of times. It is often one person's word against another.
Source: Independent.co.uk
Larisa Arap has just emerged from a 46-day imprisonment in two Russian psychiatric hospitals. Pills were forced down her throat and she received injection after injection. She doesn't know what medications they were, or whether they will cause permanent damage.
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I was just taking five minutes out, enjoying the sunshine in the surprisingly pleasant grounds of my new hospital, when the flowerbed spoke to me.
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("Dr. Sanity" is the screen name of a psychiatrist who analyses current news from a psychiatric perspective. Although I do not necessarily agree with everything she says, she often has some extremely insightful -- in fact brilliant-- comments).
Source: BBC News
Russia's official human rights investigator says it will investigate allegations of psychiatric abuse against an opposition activist. Larissa Arap says she is being forcibly held in a psychiatric clinic because she criticised health officials.