Psychiatry News

Pretty much all of us know at least one person who seems to have an inflated opinion of him or her self.

KOTA BAHARU, June 19 -- Drug addiction has been identified among causes of mental problems in the state which involved about 60,000 patients over a 10-year period, said Raja Perempuan Zainab II Psychiatry Department officer, Dr Mohd Arif Mohd Nor.

Fear and uncertainty has plagued the implementation of the Affordable Care Act since its inception.

The author of Cracked selects a battery of books that challenge received wisdom about mental illness and how to treat it I wrote Cracked: Why Psychiatry Is Doing More Harm Than Good because of the huge gulf between what most people believe about psychiatric diagnoses and medications and what the evidence actually reveals.

That's a quote from "The Human Mind," written in 1930 by Dr. Karl Menninger. The book is often cited as one of the events that made the Topeka Menninger family of psychiatrists internationally famous and respected.

Days before the official May 22 publication date of the "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders" , a number of psychiatrists who were closely associated with the project scrambled to do some preemptory damage control, mostly by lowering the expectations for what was to come.

In Italy, there is no adequate scientific knowledge of Asperger's syndrome by health professionals .

Remember Devdas? Anyone who is an alcoholic or a substance addict can't be high on life, goes the basic premise.

Most old folks remember the day care center sexual abuse trials of the 1980s and 1990s and the "Remembering Satan" New Yorker magazine article by Lawrence Wright about recovered memories, e.g., of animal and human sacrifices.

Contemplating "a hundred indecisions," Prufrock saw the moment of his greatness flicker: he "lingered in the chambers of the sea" and drowned in his self-doubt.

The long-awaited, much-debated new guidelines for diagnosing mental illness have been released, and although some complain about the changes, others say there's good reasoning behind them.

After recent mass shootings, a nationwide call to action was issued to help those who suffer from mental health issues.

The Menninger name resonates with Kansans, creating a ripple of impressions that have spread through the state, and ultimately the nation, since the family opened a Topeka clinic in 1925.

There are fast and effective, drug-free ways to lift emotional burdens that your doctor or psychiatrist will not tell you about because he or she is - almost certainly - not trained in mental health.

On Wednesday evening, June 26, the Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance will feature at its monthly meeting Drs.

PsychiatristSites, the leading website and online marketing company for psychiatrists is offering an educational webinar, "7 Steps to Make More Money in Your Practice," Wednesday June 19, 2013 at 2pm ET/ 11am PT.

For decades, psychologists and other researchers assumed that the mother-child bond was the most important one in a kid's life.

The terrible twos is all about temper tantrums, but some toddlers have more intense outbursts than others, and some don't grow out of them.

While we're waiting for some brilliant chemist to discover the elixir for eternal life, these simple, doable strategies can help you buy a little extra time.

SUNY Upstate announces honors, hiring's, and promotions of the following employees and students.