Psychiatry News

Binge eating was long seen by psychiatrists as an unusual symptom of major depression or an anxiety disorder.

Mental health experts who work with troops back from deployment talked this weekend about the latest efforts to treat disorders such as post-traumatic stress, efforts that are particularly relevant in light of the traumatic shootings at Fort Hood.

A new paper by William W Bostock from the School of Government, University of Tasmania, analysing the debate between the psychiatric profession and the Australian government over collective depression syndrome found among asylum-seeking detainees, has been published in the Dove Medical Press journal : Psychology Research and Behavior Management .

The Army knew that Fort Hood shooter Major Nidal Malik Hasan was shouting political and religious harangues to patients during his therapy sessions at Walter Reed Army Hospital.

CONTROVERSIAL guidelines on ADHD have been pulled by the Federal Government following claims drug company payments to a doctor have tainted the work.

First in a three-part series. A Saskatchewan radiologist billed the provincial medical plan a record $2.3 million last year, the most recent government figures say.

Trained psychodynamic therapists know most about psychotherapy. Do psychologists reject science ? In this column, Begley states that clinical psychologists ignore scientific data in favor of their own devices and experiences.

Wednesday, November 18, 2009 Muhammad Qasim Rawalpindi The Institute of Psychiatry at Benazir Bhutto Hospital organised a lecture on management of 'Transference and Counter Transference' in every day psychiatry to address the important issue in lives of psychiatrists and people suffering from mental illnesses.

The Argentinian love affair with psychoanalysis: The Wall Street Journal has a revealing article on why Argentina has the largest concentration of psychologists anywhere in the world and why it has a long-standing cultural fascination with psychoanalysis.

HYDERABAD: Adolescent obesity is known to be accompanied by the child exhibiting the characteristics of an introvert.

Sometimes it may be difficult for a parent to understand when a child needs help and when a child is just being, well, a child.

Dr. Paul Quinlan, a child psychiatrist at Michigan State University, talks to his young patients about everything from ADHD to bipolar disorder.

At a time when U.S. Army troops are fighting two wars halfway around the globe, Maj.

On display in a museum in Heidelberg is a curious jacket created by a patient who spent her adult life locked up inside a mental asylum in the late 1800s.

The study, which asked whether simply looking at a photograph of your significant other can reduce pain, involved 25 women, mostly UCLA students, who had boyfriends with whom they had been in a good relationship for more than six months.

Soldiers deployed to Afghanistan reported more combat stress this year, while troops in Iraq reported a decrease, according to mental health reports released by the Army on Friday.

There was a small party at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Temple Thursday, complete with music, balloons and a goody bag full of gifts for an Iraqi War veteran.

An intriguing moral psychology experiment has recently been published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology .

AstraZeneca - The Seroquel Scandal contd. Psychiatrist Dr. Michael Reinstein received nearly half a million bucks! The Chicago Tribune: Executives inside pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca faced a high-stakes dilemma.

The American Medical Association on Tuesday voted to oppose the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy, and declared that gay marriage bans contribute to health disparities.