Ketamine, esketamine, and ECT can rapidly ease suicidal thoughts, but evidence for preventing attempts or deaths remains limited—see what’s proven.
|Slideshows|October 11, 2018
6 Myths About Integrative Psychiatry
Author(s)Scott Shannon, MD
As we shift from treating disease and toward supporting health, medication is merely one possible intervention in a spectrum of possible ones.
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