Psychiatric Times Vol 36, Issue 12

December 31, 2019

From diagnosis to treatment, paraphilias and paraphilic disorders present unique challenges for the general psychiatrist.

December 31, 2019

Sexual life is not just about sexual identity and sexual behavior. 

December 31, 2019

Environmental factors in addition to climate change-air pollution, toxins, noise-seem to have detrimental psychological repercussions.

December 31, 2019

As hospital-based psychiatric emergency programs around the country demonstrate the ability to minimize ED boarding, provide cost-savings, and improve patient outcomes and clinician satisfaction, the challenge will be how to keep these models of psychiatric care self-supporting.

December 31, 2019

There appears to be some confusion regarding the efficacy of aripiprazole in bipolar mania and depression and for preventing bipolar episodes.

December 31, 2019

When people turn to mental health professionals about sexual problems-cyber or otherwise-how comfortable and informed are we?

December 31, 2019

Adolescents explore their sexuality. In most cases, this exploration is normative. At times, however, compulsive sexual behavior is developed and maintained.

December 31, 2019

Transgender adolescents and their families experience barriers to care and specialized providers might not always be available. However, the work with transgender adolescents can be rewarding.

December 31, 2019

To improve access to and quality of mental health care for individuals who identify as LGBTQ, it is important for clinicians to become allies to this marginalized community.

December 31, 2019

The rise of the Internet and smart phones has created a proliferation of “sexting” between adults and, even more concerning, youths.

December 31, 2019

The author shares conclusions about what prompts some veteran suicides, drawn from published war accounts and memoirs and his own clinical experience.

December 28, 2019

"Psychiatry has been frozen in time since the 80s, and hence the absence of progress since then is no surprise." So says, S. Nassir Ghaemi, MD, MPH, in the next installment of Conversations in Critical Psychiatry with Awais Aftab, MD.

December 27, 2019

Agitation can worsen function, pose safety concerns, and increase caregiver stress. It can be both confusing and frustrating to understand and manage these behaviors, but there are several approaches that can make all the difference.

December 13, 2019

This CME activity provides an understanding of problematic pornography use and how it relates to compulsive sexual behavior disorder.

December 12, 2019

Our daughter’s first day of Med School ten years ago, computer charged, a career choice . . .

December 12, 2019

What to expect in the December issue.

December 11, 2019

In our role as clinicians, we participate in the practice of medicine because there is always more to learn, and more experience to be gained. Such is the case with mindfulness...

December 10, 2019

Can kindness help determine who gets sick and who stays healthy?

December 10, 2019

Maternal viral infection during pregnancy is a risk factor for schizophrenia. But there has been relatively less research on the association between maternal bacterial infection during pregnancy and psychosis risk.

December 07, 2019

Patients with a family history of Alzheimer disease worry that normal aging symptoms are the initial indication of a progressive cognitive impairment that they have observed in their relatives. A variety of interventions are discussed.

December 04, 2019

The most frequently researched aspect of the relationship between BPD and bipolar disorder has been the frequency of their co-occurrence. Several reviews have estimated a 20% overlap in diagnostic frequency.