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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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 ...

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.

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.

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

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 ...

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.