http://www.psychiatrictimes.com Psychiatric News, Features, Special Reports and Career Opportunities - Psychiatric Times en Copyright 2009, CMPMedica US Sat, 04 Feb 2012 05:00:02 GMT Sat, 04 Feb 2012 05:00:02 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/display/article/10168/2027122?CID=rss <img src="http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/image/image_gallery?img_id=2027135&t=1328302903902" border="0" align="left" height="50" width="50" style="padding-right:5px; padding-top:2px"/> Any physician can predict death as the outcome of a fatal illness, but the physician who can predict death from among seeming randomness has certainly acquired a superior level of insight.<br style="clear:both;"/> Fri, 3 Feb 2012 12:00:00 GMT http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/display/article/10168/2026315?CID=rss <img src="http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/image/image_gallery?img_id=1652209&t=1328212014577" border="0" align="left" height="50" width="50" style="padding-right:5px; padding-top:2px"/>Father and son psychiatrists offer the following advice, in the Oslerian spirit of honoring and guiding trainees—today’s psychiatric residents—who will become tomorrow’s psychiatric leaders. <br style="clear:both;"/> Thu, 2 Feb 2012 12:00:00 GMT http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/sleep-disorders/content/article/10168/2026240?CID=rss <img src="http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/image/image_gallery?img_id=2026960&t=1328298292280" border="0" align="left" height="50" width="50" style="padding-right:5px; padding-top:2px"/>You snooze, you definitely don't lose.<br style="clear:both;"/> Thu, 2 Feb 2012 12:00:00 GMT http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/integrative-psychiatry/content/article/10168/2024525?CID=rss <img src="http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/image/image_gallery?img_id=2024523&t=1328041017603" border="0" align="left" height="50" width="50" style="padding-right:5px; padding-top:2px"/>Consumers, mental healthcare professionals, researchers and public health advocates can now access comprehensive information on all aspects of integrative mental healthcare via a new Web site launched by the International Network of Integrative Mental Health.<br style="clear:both;"/> Tue, 31 Jan 2012 12:00:00 GMT http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/blog/frances/content/article/10168/2024394?CID=rss <img src="http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/image/image_gallery?img_id=1651768&t=1328023610329" border="0" align="left" height="50" width="50" style="padding-right:5px; padding-top:2px"/>My three criticisms of DSM-5 have been: (1) risky suggestions; (2) bad writing; and (3) poor planning and disorganization. <br style="clear:both;"/> Tue, 31 Jan 2012 12:00:00 GMT http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/cultural-psychiatry/content/article/10168/2024387?CID=rss <img src="http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/image/image_gallery?img_id=1651667&t=1328019133627" border="0" align="left" height="50" width="50" style="padding-right:5px; padding-top:2px"/>The grief that the Shoah brought to its victims would make its reappearance even at happy times long afterwards. <br style="clear:both;"/> Tue, 31 Jan 2012 12:00:00 GMT http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/blog/dsm-5/content/article/10168/2024115?CID=rss <img src="http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/image/image_gallery?img_id=1652093&t=1327951528120" border="0" align="left" height="50" width="50" style="padding-right:5px; padding-top:2px"/>In this guest blog, Dr Deirdre D'Orazio responds to a recent commentary by Dr Allen Frances on conducting evaluations of potential sexually violent predators.<br style="clear:both;"/> Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:00:00 GMT http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/bipolar-disorder/content/article/10168/2023960?CID=rss <img src="http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/image/image_gallery?img_id=2023953&t=1327944676465" border="0" align="left" height="50" width="50" style="padding-right:5px; padding-top:2px"/>Take the poll on individuals with comorbid obesity and bipolar disorder.<br style="clear:both;"/> Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:00:00 GMT http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/display/article/10168/2023955?CID=rss <img src="http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/image/image_gallery?img_id=2024109&t=1327949437272" border="0" align="left" height="50" width="50" style="padding-right:5px; padding-top:2px"/> Dr Angell and others may be right to claim that we should be concerned about the current practice of psychiatry. But the simple fact that mental illnesses seem to be common is not one of them.<br style="clear:both;"/> Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:00:00 GMT http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/schizophrenia/content/article/10168/2023168?CID=rss <img src="http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/image/image_gallery?img_id=2023161&t=1327696091632" border="0" align="left" height="50" width="50" style="padding-right:5px; padding-top:2px"/>Do you know someone that has fought the brave fight against serious mental illness? They deserve recognition and applause. Do nominate them or let them know of the Reintegration Awards. <br style="clear:both;"/> Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:00:00 GMT http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/bipolar-disorder/content/article/10168/2022503?CID=rss <img src="http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/image/image_gallery?img_id=1818156&t=1299701439356" border="0" align="left" height="50" width="50" style="padding-right:5px; padding-top:2px"/>Dr Roger McIntyre answers a reader's question. How would you answer? Take the quiz.<br style="clear:both;"/> Thu, 26 Jan 2012 12:00:00 GMT http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/display/article/10168/2022211?CID=rss <img src="http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/image/image_gallery?img_id=2022576&t=1327611146945" border="0" align="left" height="50" width="50" style="padding-right:5px; padding-top:2px"/>I was 9 years old in December 1959 when I left and 60 in July 2011 when I returned to Lodz, Poland. My return—a journey through time as well as space—was a continuation of a trip from my home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where I teach and practice clinical and forensic psychiatry, to Berlin, where I gave a number of presentations at a conference of the International Academy of Law and Mental Health (IALMH).<br style="clear:both;"/> Thu, 26 Jan 2012 12:00:00 GMT http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/display/article/10168/2022206?CID=rss <img src="http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/image/image_gallery?img_id=2022584&t=1327612301576" border="0" align="left" height="50" width="50" style="padding-right:5px; padding-top:2px"/>Harold Bursztajn, MD, recounts the story of his parents’ survival of the liquidation of the Lodz (Poland) ghetto … how they met, fell in love, married—and managed to survive where nearly 200,000 others perished. Ultimately, this is a story in which courage and love triumphed over evil. We invite you to watch.<br style="clear:both;"/> Thu, 26 Jan 2012 12:00:00 GMT http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/blog/knoll/content/article/10168/2021662?CID=rss <img src="http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/image/image_gallery?img_id=1702082&t=1327431147628" border="0" align="left" height="50" width="50" style="padding-right:5px; padding-top:2px"/>Many inmates are carried along in the structured, routine flow of the New Asylums without receiving treatment until their situation so demanded. In the case of Mr Henry, the demand came in the form of self-induced isolation. <br style="clear:both;"/> Tue, 24 Jan 2012 12:00:00 GMT http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/blog/frances/content/article/10168/2021304?CID=rss <img src="http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/image/image_gallery?img_id=1651756&t=1327333794365" border="0" align="left" height="50" width="50" style="padding-right:5px; padding-top:2px"/>My biggest concern regarding DSM-5 is that it will dramatically increase the rates of mental disorder by cheapening the currency of psychiatric diagnosis . . .The whole purpose of field-testing is to identify and correct problems in the preliminary DSM suggestions before they become set in stone as official guides to diagnostic practice. <br style="clear:both;"/> Mon, 23 Jan 2012 12:00:00 GMT http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/forensic-psych/content/article/10168/2020927?CID=rss <img src="http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/image/image_gallery?img_id=1996065&t=1327093598776" border="0" align="left" height="50" width="50" style="padding-right:5px; padding-top:2px"/>Here, Mr Hazelwood answers questions about serial murderers that are commonly posed to him. The term serial murderer (or serial killer) was not even a part of the forensic lexicon until the 1970s . . .<br style="clear:both;"/> Fri, 20 Jan 2012 12:00:00 GMT http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/podcasts/content/article/10168/2020646?CID=rss <img src="http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/image/image_gallery?img_id=1974506&t=1327078768655" border="0" align="left" height="50" width="50" style="padding-right:5px; padding-top:2px"/>Special Report chairs discuss patient education and provide a brief overview of materials that provide an opportunity for patients to help themselves. <br style="clear:both;"/> Fri, 20 Jan 2012 12:00:00 GMT http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/quiz/content/article/10168/2019838?CID=rss <img src="http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/image/image_gallery?img_id=1652028&t=1326925558567" align="left" style="margin-right:5px; margin-top:2px"/>A history of trauma is most uniquely related to which psychiatric disorder? Which medical comorbidities are associated with an increased risk of suicide in older adults? These questions and more.<br style="clear:both;"/> Wed, 18 Jan 2012 12:00:00 GMT