The articles in part 1 of this Special Report provide concise reviews of important research findings and clinical applications of mindfulness meditation, breath practices, and uses of CAM therapies for perinatal depression. 

Introduction: CAMs and the Future of Mental Health Care

This review provides information to assist clinicians who are considering mindfulness meditation for their patients.

The Use of Meditation in Children With Mental Health Issues

Slow voluntarily regulated breathing practices are noninvasive, easy to learn, and generally safe for treating patients with symptoms of anxiety, insomnia, depression, stress- and trauma-related disorders, ADHD, schizophrenia, and substance abuse. 

Neurobiology and Neurophysiology of Breath Practices in Psychiatric Care

Many women choose to avoid standard treatment for perinatal depression, and instead prefer integrative treatments that incorporate complementary and alternative therapies. This article reviews the evidence base for these treatments. 

Perinatal Depression: An Evidence-Based Review of Integrative Treatment

Recent studies demonstrate the far-reaching effects of childhood trauma related to depression and suicidality in adulthood. The evidence to support these associations is presented here. 

Effects of Childhood Trauma on Depression and Suicidality in Adulthood

Psychiatrists can serve a pivotal role in reducing sexual offender recidivism by treating individuals with paraphilic disorders. Details here.

DSM-5 and Paraphilias: What Psychiatrists Need to Know

These few stories of refugees remind us what a stress to one’s sense of self the immigrant experience entails. They emphasize how important this perspective is when we are asked to evaluate and treat those recently here in the US, and sometimes those who have been here for a generation. 

The Stranger in Our Midst

"You just never think people like that can have normal children.” And then I I think of when I was 14 years old and answered a late-night phone call at home.

The Patient’s Son Is Normal

New research over the past decade has suggested that links between media violence and child aggression are less clear than previously thought. How has our understanding of media violence effects changed? 

New Evidence Suggests Media Violence Effects May Be Minimal

When a psychiatrist evaluates a patient, there is much to be valued in trying to adopt the patient’s internal perspective of cultural mores and world views. But what are the limits to cultural sensitivity?

Psychiatric Ethics and Cultural Sensitivity

Here: a review of issues related to assessment of patients for suicide risk in the ED -- and an overview of emerging approaches and research that one day will lead to more reliable assessment and interventions based more on science than on art or luck. 

Suicidal Patients: Defining and Addressing Emergencies

This article provides an overview of the role of neurofeedback as an intervention to target symptoms associated with psychiatric disorders.

Neurofeedback: Significance for Psychiatry

Sleepless in New Haven, I read this hotel room’s only other book. Power-suited lawyers on the back cover advertise to sue for antidepressant suicides if families will call 1-800-BAD-MEDS...

The Yellow Pages

THE PATIENT WHO MADE ME A BETTER PSYCHIATRIST – A COLLECTION OF MEMOIRS

To this day, I fiercely debate whether I would want to remember such an experience if it had happened to me. How tortured would I feel? 

Ms. L, Delirious Mania

Now, when I think back O.P's plight and isolation, I marvel that he could remain standing. He reminds me of many other courageous young men-the writer, the newly graduated physician, and all the others whom I treated and who died of AIDS. He also reminds me of the vibrant gay community that was destroyed by a microscopic retrovirus. 

A Flood of Losses

Jewell’s answer taught me that successful diagnosis and treatment of an illness weren’t everything. They were not the most important things. 

Jewell

Being an outpatient psychiatrist is a lot like being married. Things go along, the same-old, for long periods. But then there's a moment. Today, with Leslie, I remember why I love my work. 

There’s No Place Like Gnome

When even listening fails, presence is all that’s left. 

Presence

This is the story of Peter. I feel chosen to have gotten to know him and to have the memory of what such an experience has carved into me.

Fumbling Through

The public has questioned the wisdom of a judge to release a psychiatric inpatient, but not just any patient. Enter our metaphoric haunted house at your own risk.

Hinckley Haunts the House of Psychiatry

“Election addiction disorder, undifferentiated, DSM-5A-177.6x” is characterized by an overwhelming need to watch anything and everything related to the current race for the White House, no matter how microscopic. Clinical details and prognosis are examined here.

Election Addiction Disorder: Mackey Rules!

The supposed “epidemic” of mental illness turns out to be mostly a myth in the US adult population, 2000-2015. 

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