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Open Poll: What Do You See As the Single Biggest Challenge Facing Psychiatry?

February 14, 2012

What do you see as the single biggest challenge facing psychiatry? Please share your thoughts in the comment box below.

by George Mecouch | April 27, 2012 12:33 AM EDT

The exaggerated claims of bio psychiatry

by shane dulemba | April 26, 2012 12:35 PM EDT

The exagerated claims of bio-psychiatry

by DeeDee Carman ARNP-C | April 13, 2012 6:17 PM EDT

Accessing care. patients call for appointments on their own. this is not right but experienced the same in emergency services No psychiatrist on call. All we can do is give names of local providers

by Dheeraj Raina | March 31, 2012 8:17 AM EDT

The biggest challenge facing psychiatry is how to continue to provide good treatment to patients the face of the exaggerated claims of biological psychiatry and the continued shift away from psychotherapy training in residency and afterwards

by Michael Levin | March 24, 2012 12:19 AM EDT

Ever-increasing rift between biological and dynamic psychiatrists. The dichotomy colored by animosity is not limited to choices of treatment but splits psychiatry in every aspect - research, approach to diagnosis, understanding of etiology, evaluation of the outcome, reimbursement for services, etc. Two camps are united, however, in their dislike for DSM. It's unlikely that middle ground will be found and two currents are doomed to run independently indefinitely, or unless one of them dries up.

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