Psychiatrists vary in their eagerness to share therapeutic decisions with patients: some believe that adherence is paramount and paternalism is often necessary to prevent loss of insight with consequent impaired judgment and functional decline. These authors argue in favor of a radically more collaborative style.

Shared Decision Making in the Treatment of Psychosis

All types of antidepressants have been found to be effective for major depression with comorbid substance dependence.

Treating Comorbid Psychiatric and Substance Use Disorders

I envision the day when psychiatry and psychology re-embrace the mind, along with the brain and behavior.

Five Key Fantasies Embraced by DSM

Lamotrigine is an important option in bipolar disorders. However, many clinicians also use it in patients with a (unipolar) depressive disorder who have not responded adequately to conventional antidepressants.

Lamotrigine for Major Depressive Disorder Is Inappropriate

How frequently do you find yourself prescribing antibiotics for inpatients with schizophrenia and related psychotic disorders during hospitalization?

Never Quite as It Seems: An Apparently Chance Association May Explain a Lot About Schizophrenia

All psychiatry, anywhere in the world, is American psychiatry. This is both good and bad.

Letter to a Foreign Psychiatrist

This book draws together the entire spectrum of the relevant psychosocial dimensions and data necessary to adequately assist in the evaluation and treatment of patients who may be candidates for bariatric surgery.

Psychosocial Assessment and Treatment of Bariatric Patients

American psychiatrists might be able to sympathize in the wake of recent mass tragedies leading to new, hastily conceived laws that directly impinge on psychiatric practice, confidentiality, and duty to protect third parties.

When a Psychiatrist Is Given a Prison Sentence After a Patient Commits a Crime: Comments on a Disconcerting Case

On December 18, 2012, French psychiatrist Daniele Canarelli, age 58, received a 1-year suspended prison sentence by the Criminal Court of Marseille after one of her patients killed someone.

Psychiatric Liability: A French Psychiatrist Sentenced After a Murder Committed by Her Patient

The extent to which antidepressant use during pregnancy is associated with increased risks of postnatal adaptation syndrome, persistent pulmonary hypertension in the newborn, first-trimester teratogenicity, stillbirth, and infant mortality is explored in 2 recent studies. A close up look here. . .

Antidepressants and Pregnancy

Both clinicians and weather forecasters employ the same general process of information gathering, analysis, and reaching a conclusion.

Assessing Violence Risk: A Meteorological Analogy

spring-time territory, raucous and free as a New Orleans . . . trumpet, my patient locked-in to the wild tune

Assertiveness Training

 Historically, there has been conflict between psychiatry and religion. 

Religion, Spirituality, and Psychiatry

The humanities are a variety of academic disciplines that focus on the human condition with analytic and sometimes speculative methods. This is in contrast to the empirical methods of the natural sciences.

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