Technology will have an enormous impact on mental health, but perhaps not as soon as people think. Some of the earliest technologies to be deployed into clinical practice will help to augment clinicians, empower patients, and enable a data-driven approach to psychiatry.
The use of e-cigarettes may precede cigarette smoking as well as the use of other substances, especially among young people.
P values can be deceiving. In order to determine if a clinical trial result is important, we need to look at the effect size.
Judith S. Beck, PhD discusses the importance of the therapeutic relationship in CBT. She discusses strategies for developing and maintaining a strong therapeutic alliance and explains how to overcome challenges and repair ruptures.
Those last years of the Communist regime were met with literal darkness, collective trauma, and lack of food and free speech. Yet the peoples’ wicked, clandestine sense of humor cut through the despair and resilience rose from the ashes.
Jill M. Harkavy-Friedman, PhD, Vice President of Research for the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention in New York City, briefs us on a pre-conference event.
Durkheim believed it was useless to prohibit newspapers from publishing stories of the ultimate act of self-harm. But he was wrong.
Just because something is legal does not make it ethical, in the opinion of this psychiatrist, who turned down an invitation to be a presenter on the topic of PAS.
Treating eating disorders can feel challenging because patients are typically ambivalent about changing their behavior; however, it is also rewarding, as full recovery is possible even in the most chronically and severely ill patients.
Anorexia nervosa (AN) is a severe and debilitating illness with one of the highest mortality rates of any psychiatric disorder. The illness course is often long, recovery is slow, and the rates of full recovery are low.
More than two-thirds of patients with eating disorders also have comorbid mood and anxiety disorders. This article considers how a transdiagnostic process called interoception may help to advance our understanding and treatment of eating disorders.
Eating disorders (EDs) are associated with high medical and psychiatric comorbidity, poor quality of life, and high mortality, and mortality from anorexia nervosa (AN) is the highest of all mental disorders. Fortunately, there are a number of evidence-based psychological treatment approaches for EDs.
The author presents for consideration and discussion two personal stories in which the so-called Tarasoff Rule, or the “duty to warn” a threatened third party, was invoked. One was arguably appropriate; the other, arguably not.
An expert provides sage advice to avoid a malpractice lawsuit, even in the face of potentially tragic outcomes.
Assessment of suicidal risk in adolescents is a solemn professional obligation that involves obtaining as much information as possible from family members or caregivers. Evaluation of mood disorders is an essential part of the assessment.
This article explores why Enduring Personality Change After Catastrophic Experience (EPCACE) is a clinically useful diagnosis.
With the goal of making psychiatric care more available, accessible, and affordable while maintaining the highest standards...comes the challenge of accomplishing this with limited resources.
Verbal de-escalation involves validating a patient’s experience, establishing a collaborative relationship, and finding solutions to ensure the patient’s needs are met. More in this quiz.
The evidence is clear: bipolar disorder is frequently both underdiagnosed and overdiagnosed.
From drug company mergers to government watchdogs, important trends are emerging.
A close analysis of the psychodynamics of Cain’s crime shows us something important about his mentality-not to be confused with mental illness.
Most drugs, after journeying through the various metabolic systems throughout the body, find their exit.
Research uncovers the mechanism underlying the development of psychotic symptoms in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. More in this video with Viviane Labrie, PhD, lead author of a recent study.
This CME article provides an understanding of the effects on the CNS that lead to HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders (HAND).
Reframing is being tested as a potentially viable way to address intractable conflict where sacred values are at issue. In memory of Johan Verhulst, MD.
In this video segment, Dr. Peter Buckley addresses 2 questions: • What factors do you consider when you offer depot medications to a patient with schizophrenia? • What can be done to encourage the use of depot medications?
Nature provides both physical and psychological benefits. How does this healing through exposure to nature occur?
Dysdiadochokinesia was a hard word to remember-and an impossible one to forget.
We humans need to believe. We tend to feel better, more grounded, and safer.
The association between psychiatric disorders, most notably depression and anxiety, and pain is well established. However, mental health professionals, and especially psychiatrists, are still often excluded from treating patients with pain.
