 Psychiatrists cannot, with impunity, disregard an important domain of man’s personality makeup. He ought to remain a searcher of the soul at large.

Enlightenment and Dimmed Enlightenment

 Does an early diagnosis of schizophrenia really make a clinical difference? 

Q&A: On Early Diagnosis of Schizophrenia

 Three twin studies published between 1977 and 1995, which provided the main body of knowledge on heritability of autism, showed a concordance rate of 72% for a total of 36 monozygotic pairs and a concordance rate of 0% for 30 dizygotic pairs.

Research Points to Shared Environmental Factors for Autism and ASD

 In this article the topic addressed are the primary reasons for the American public’s disenchantment with psychiatry; how the profession ought to address these issues; and how we need to replace the DSM’s categorical system with one that is clinically useful for both clinicians and patients.

How American Psychiatry Can Save Itself: Part 2

While SSRIs and SNRIs are valuable in the treatment of major depression, partial response or nonresponse occurs in many patients. Research has found that bupropion was the most frequently chosen agent for addition to an SSRI after inadequate response.

Bupropion After Nonresponse or Partial Response to an SSRI or SNRI?

 What is often forgotten, however, is that things such as client-centered therapy, “mental hygiene,” and “self-help” were also responses to another phenomenon-the charismatic physician.

The Early Psychiatrist: A Piercing Eye and Commanding Presence

 This article aims to provide a glimpse of recent developments that are relevant to cultural and ethnic influences on psychopharmacological responses. 

Cultural and Ethnic Issues in Psychopharmacology

 The articles cover a broad array of controversial and advancing topics in psychiatry. We hope you will enjoy them.

Introduction: Controversies and Evolving Issues

 The plain fact is that nothing that has been claimed in the name of defending our country can justify cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment of another man or woman. Torture, in any form-light or heavy-is not a tool of interrogation or useful for gathering good intelligence. 

Condemning Torture and Abuse: A Call to Action

 Effective, early intervention and appropriate support for and treatment of the caregivers of these vulnerable children will improve short-term outcomes and also may provide positive lifelong benefits.

A Delicate Brain: Ethical and Practical Considerations for the Use of Medications in Very Young Children

Knowing from the start how a personality is organized, especially as theorized by Karen Horney-appreciating the primary and repressed moves of the patient, inner dictates, claims, idealized image, and intrapsychic defensive maneuvers-makes the help we offer most likely to succeed.

Who Was Karen Horney?

 Although the adverse-effect profile of older, conventional (typical) antipsychotics has discouraged many clinicians from using them, they remain widely used in elderly patients with dementia. 

Antipsychotics for Behavioral Disturbance in Dementia? A Clinical Conundrum

 Body and soul-brain and mind: two complex worlds mutually dependent and yet in many ways self-governing. 

Neuroscientific Mirages: Are We No More Than Our Brains?

Studies of mammalian species suggest that they possess awareness of self and even more subtle “human” qualities associated with empathy and social joy.

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