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12 hrs ago | TownHall.com

Shortage of military therapists creates strain

Amputations. Combat stress. Divorce. Suicide. For troubled service members, military therapists are at their sides.

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Related Topix: US Military, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, US Army, Medicine, Fort Hood, TX, US Politics, US News, Republican, US House of Representatives, Tim Murphy, US Navy

Sat Nov 07, 2009

CiteULike

Paranoid atmospheres: Psychiatric knowledge and delusional realities

This subject is especially of interest with respect to persons who are deluded, and also, I will demonstrate, sheds light upon the psychiatrist's "gaze" and knowledge of delusions.

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Related Topix: Medicine

Fri Nov 06, 2009

MySanAntonio.com

Psychiatrists as prone to crisis as others, expert says

As unfathomable as it might be that someone could methodically shoot dozens of fellow soldiers and citizens, it seems equally baffling that the suspect could be a psychiatrist - someone trained to diagnose and heal those in mental crisis.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Brooklyn, NY, New York, NY

Texas Gigs

New clinic offers relief to Oak Cliff

Carol Lucky, CEO of the Child & Family Guidance Center, and Andy Wolfskill, COO, eagerly anticipate the impact the clinic can make on the community.

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Related Topix: Entertainment, Drama, Television, Oak Cliff, TX, Medicine, Dallas Metro

Thu Nov 05, 2009

PhysOrg Weblog

New TMS clinic offers noninvasive treatment for major depression

Rush University Medical Center has opened the Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Clinic to offer patients suffering from major depression a safe, effective, non-drug treatment.

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Related Topix: Depression, Health, Rush University, Food and Drug Administration, Medicine

Wed Nov 04, 2009

The Independent

Can cannabis improve autism?

The debate over its risks has split political and scientific opinion in Britain.

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Related Topix: Autism, Health, Drugs, Medicine, ADHD, Food and Drug Administration, Homeopathy

CBC

Psychiatrists threaten to skip mental health court

Nova Scotia psychiatrists are refusing to staff the province's new mental health court until they get a new contract.

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Related Topix: Medicine

MomLogic

Can Marijuana Help Kids with Autism?

This mom says giving her kid pot has made all the difference. Gina Kaysen Fernandes : As the mother of an autistic child , Marie Myung-Ok Lee is navigating uncharted territory as she struggles to manage her son's condition.

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Related Topix: Drugs, Autism, Health, Family, Kids, Medicine, Pediatrics

Tue Nov 03, 2009

KUOW-FM Seattle

Psychiatrists Among Top-Paid Washington State...

They are among the toppaid state employees in Washington: psychiatrists who work in the prison system and in the state's mental hospitals.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Seattle Metro, Tacoma Metro, Tacoma, WA, University of Washington

Guardian Unlimited

The iconoclastic wisdom of David Nutt

This is not the first time Professor Nutt has challenged dearly held beliefs a ' as many sufferers of depression will gladly testify In the late 19th century the German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin described depression as a long-term illness that returned frequently and would become chronic a ' a definition that was accepted by British ...

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Related Topix: Medicine

MSNBC

The Upside of Depression

Happiness has had a tough time of it lately. The backlash against the seemingly endless stream of books about the subject had already set in last year.

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Related Topix: Depression, Health, Medicine, Psychology, Science, Virginia Commonwealth University, University of Virginia

Mon Nov 02, 2009

ArgusLeader.com

Psychiatry professor collects honor from state association

Dr. William Fuller is a professor of psychiatry at Sanford School of Medicine of the University of South Dakota and a staff psychiatrist at Avera University Associates in Sioux Falls.

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Related Topix: Medicine, University of South Dakota, Sioux Falls Metro, Sioux Falls, SD

Sat Oct 31, 2009

MediLexicon

A Step-By-Step Program: 'The Cognitive Behavioral Workbook For Weight Management'

Main Category: Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness Also Included In: Psychology / Psychiatry Article Date: 31 Oct 2009 Diet pills.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Psychology, Science, Health

Fri Oct 30, 2009

BBC Europe Edition

Myths of the mind

What would you give to see inside the mind of one of the last century's great psychological thinkers? As World War I raged through Europe, Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung embarked on a somewhat psychedelic journey of self-exploration. The sometimes disturbing voyage into his own unconscious laid the foundations for theories which came to rival those ...

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Related Topix: Medicine, Psychology, Science

Wed Oct 28, 2009

C-Health

Online course aims to help hospital workers with stress during pandemic

In the aftermath of the SARS emergency in 2003, some experts turned their attention to the levels of stress experienced by health-care professionals faced with treating infectious patients.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health, Stress, Epidemic, Natural Disasters, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, Nursing, Influenza

Tue Oct 27, 2009

Psychology Today

Wild Things and the Dance of Temperament in Step/family Life

My eight-year-old son recently told me that he did not want to go to Where the Wild Things Are .

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Related Topix: Where the Wild Things Are, Kids, Family, Medicine

MediLexicon

Psychologists Argue Behaviour Change Can Help Halt Climate Change

Main Category: Psychology / Psychiatry Also Included In: Water - Air Quality / Agriculture Article Date: 27 Oct 2009 Tackling misconceptions and changing our behaviour are just some of the ways that psychology can help shape climate-change policy.

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Related Topix: Psychology, Medicine, Science, Health

Mon Oct 26, 2009

Wired News

Out of LSD? Just 15 Minutes of Sensory Deprivation Triggers Hallucinations

You don't need psychedelic drugs to start seeing colors and objects that aren't really there.

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Related Topix: Drugs, Medicine

Sat Oct 24, 2009

WALB-TV Albany

Team of specialists to boost expertise in state hospitals

The state agency in charge of Georgia's psychiatric hospitals is bringing in more than two dozen clinicians, experts, and trainers to dramatically boost the expertise available in those facilities.

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Related Topix: Georgia, State Prisons, Central State Hospital, Prison, Medicine, Nursing

Fri Oct 23, 2009

Tass

Experts urge wider psychiatric assistance to Russian population

Only one in a hundred Russians uses the services of a psychotherapist - and this is so at a time when, according to the World Health Organization - the psychological instability of the nation devours more than one tenth of the GDP.

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Related Topix: World News, Russia, Asia, Medicine, Alcoholism, Health,

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