Ketamine, esketamine, and ECT can rapidly ease suicidal thoughts, but evidence for preventing attempts or deaths remains limited—see what’s proven.
|Articles|December 28, 2021
The Unutterable Rage
Author(s)Mairin Doherty, MD
Poetry approaches the visceral experience of intense emotion better than prose or medical reports.
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POETRY
Dr Doherty is a retired clinical and academic child and family psychiatrist.
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