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Nuances, Narratives, and the “Chemical Imbalance” Debate

By Ronald Pies, MD
March 11, 2014 | Couch in Crisis, Cultural Psychiatry
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It is time for psychiatry’s critics to drop the conspiratorial narrative of the “chemical imbalance” and acknowledge psychiatry’s efforts at integrating biological and psychosocial insights.

Infographic: Men With Versus Men Without ADHD in Childhood

Karen Dineen Wagner, MD, PhD
News | March 10, 2014 | ADHD, Antisocial Personality Disorder, Child Adolescent Psychiatry
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The results of the study featured in this infographic showed that compared with men without childhood ADHD, men with childhood ADHD had higher rates of ongoing ADHD.

Hail Caesar!

Roy Harvey Greenberg, MD
March 06, 2014 | Couch in Crisis, Cultural Psychiatry
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Sid Caesar, who died on February 12, not only pleasured millions . . . he helped me get through a reasonably tormented adolescence.

Healthy Beginnings for a New Psychiatrist

Jessica Jeffrey, MD, MPH, MBA
March 06, 2014 | Residents Blog, Career, Challenging Cases, Child Adolescent Psychiatry, Residents Corner
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During the first year of her child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship, this psychiatrist received an invaluable lesson regarding the importance of “treating the whole patient” in this case, a 16-year-old patient who is pregnant.

Data Point

Richard M. Berlin, MD
March 04, 2014
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Three years deep in despair, he’s swallowed every pill I prescribed...

Pope Francis and People with Mental Disorders

Lloyd I. Sederer, MD
March 03, 2014 | Couch in Crisis, Cultural Psychiatry
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The new Pope's message resonates with what is becoming a prevailing ethos of good mental health care--a belief that everyone has promise, can recover and rebuild from life's misfortunes and should be able to have what we all want.

Marijuana, Alcohol. . . and Me

H. Steven Moffic, MD
March 03, 2014 | Couch in Crisis
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President Obama has told his daughters that that he thinks smoking marijuana is a "bad idea." I will tell my grandchildren the same thing. But what do I know? Not a whole lot, I'm afraid. How about you?

Deep Brain Stimulation in Chronic and Severe Anorexia Nervosa

D. Blake Woodside, MD
Nir Lipsman, MD
Andres M. Lozano, MD
News | March 03, 2014 | Eating Disorders, Neuropsychiatry
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Deep Brain Stimulation is a neurosurgical procedure initially developed for the management of treatment-refractory movement disorders. More recently, the rationale for the use of DBS in anorexia nervosa derives from several sources.

The First World War and the Legacy of Shellshock

Greg Eghigian, PhD
February 28, 2014 | History of Psychiatry, Military Mental Health, PTSD, Trauma And Violence
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In the history of psychiatry, the First World War is often identified with the rise of the disorder of “shellshock.” However, many in both the medical community and the military establishment were dubious of the claim that war could produce psychiatric symptoms.

Mental Illness vs Brain Disorders: From Szasz to DSM-5

Awais Aftab, MD, MBBS
February 28, 2014 | DSM-5
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Thomas Szasz—a psychiatrist—was a lifelong ferocious critic of the institution of psychiatry. A significant body of discourse on the notion of mental disorder by psychiatrists and non-psychiatrists alike has been centered on understanding and responding to his critique.

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