Category: Psychiatry
Deleting Homosexuality From the DSM: 50th Anniversary
“The normal outcome of male adolescent development is heterosexuality,” a child psychiatry professor told other trainees and I in 1989, during our residency education. “What […]
My Experience of Schizophrenia and Homelessness
jrydentr / Pixabay In California, Governor Newsom recently introduced the CARE Act, which stands for Community Assistance, Recovery and Empowerment Act. The bill is described […]
A New Pathway Between Body and Mind?
Source: Miriam Alonso/Pexels One of the core implications of psychology and psychiatry of recent decades is a simple anti-Cartesian lesson: The mind and the body […]
Bringing Back Institutionalization Would Be Inhumane—and Ineffective
Photo by Freaktography, purchased from iStock In a recent message to supporters, former President Donald Trump declared that, if he were again elected to the […]
Mental Health Care Is Broken—Here’s How We Fix It
David Underland/Pexels A good therapist treats each client as an individual and considers how their life unfolds over time. Our scientific models, however, encourage practitioners […]
Complementary Treatments of Severe Persistent Mental Illness
This post was written by Eugene Rubin MD, PhD and Charles Zorumski MD. Individuals with severe persistent mental illness (SPMI) may suffer from a variety […]
Behavioral Health or Mental Health? Which Is It?
The terms mental health and behavioral health are often applied when it comes it our thoughts, emotions, and behaviors as well as specific diagnoses such […]
Neurology, Psychiatry, or Just Brain Medicine?
The brain is perhaps the only organ in the body where there are two completely different medical specialties that treat patients with dysfunction in the […]
The Problem of Polydiagnosis |
Many patients with whom I meet for the first time tell me that they have been diagnosed with a laundry list of psychiatric disorders. It […]
Patients Are More Complex Than We Realize
Complexity in Health Care Source: Springer Complexity in Health Care: A Paradigm shift for Clinical Practice (Springer 2023) by Steven A. Frankel, Steven D. Thurber, […]