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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.

Sobered by the fourth Caltrain death of a Palo Alto student in six months, more than 400 parents and students packed the auditorium of Cubberley Community Center Wednesday for a PTA-sponsored forum on teen mental health.

Medhat Abdel Hadi, a therapist says pre-marriage counselling could help. Victoria Hazou for The National CAIRO // Growing numbers of young Egyptian couples are turning to marriage counsellors amid a sharp rise in divorce rates and more men and women over 30 failing to tie the knot.

Images showing brain scans of those with minimal prior Internet experience compared to those with a lot of web experience.

New York has the highest concentration of psychiatrists and psychotherapists in the world.

PSYCHIATRISTS in private practice have taken issue with allegations that they are simply 'hired guns' for defence lawyers, as Principal Senior State Counsel Bala Reddy described them at a recent conference.

The recruitment of mental health professionals continues to be a challenge throughout the province and across the country, says Labrador Grenfell Health's vice president of Community, Children's Services and Aboriginal Affairs.

The SouthEast Alaska Regional Health Consortium is pleased to announce that psychiatrist Dr.

Diagnosing and treating mental illnesses is a challenge in itself. In Germany, where around 20 percent of all residents have an immigrant background, many psychiatric patients also come from others cultures.

Maj. Derek Munoz and Capt. Joy Jones sit by a patch of grass cultivated by mental health technicians outside the combat stress clinic Oct.

For 20 years or longer, author-illustrator Maurice Sendak has claimed that child psychologist Bruno Bettelheim mercilessly attacked his 1963 book Where the Wild Things Are when it was first published, causing him and the book great damage.

Carla Bruni-Sarkozy managed only fifth place in a poll to find Paris' ideal woman.

Court cases across America often feature expert testimony that offers conflicting conclusions.

A group of 20 secondary school students will meet psychiatrists from around New Zealand, in the hope it will encourage them to consider a career in psychiatry.

Under siege and grappling with joblessness, factional violence and the aftermath of war, Gazans are turning to pills as they seek to escape reality.

Main Category: Psychology / Psychiatry Also Included In: Medical Students / Training Article Date: 13 Oct 2009 The Australian Psychological Society , on behalf of the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing, is administering scholarships up to $15,000 per annum to students who will be applying to study or continuing to undertake an ...

Court cases across America often feature expert testimony that offers conflicting conclusions.

Te Pou, the National Centre of Mental Health Research, Information and Workforce Development and The University of Auckland are joining forces to encourage medical students into a profession in psychiatry.

Brain Advance Access originally published online on March 24, 2009 Brain 2009 132 :2889-2896; doi:10.1093/brain/awp060 1 Department of Psychological Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry, King's; College London, London, UK 2 Department of General Practice, King's College London, London, UK 3 Department of Neurology, King's College Hospital, London, UK ...

The following "Five Questions fora " feature was produced by the American Psychological Association.

By Kavita Bajeli-Datt, New Delhi, Oct 10 : As many as 20 million Indians are believed to be suffering from mental illnesses, but there are only 3,500 psychiatrists and 1,500 psychiatric nurses to treat them, say experts.

In what is believed to be the first U.S. study designed to prevent anxiety disorders in the children of anxious parents, researchers at the Johns Hopkins Children's Center have found that a family-based program reduced symptoms and the risk of developing an anxiety disorder among these children.

The Medical College of Georgia is taking control of clinical services at the struggling East Central Georgia Regional Hospital in Augusta under a new agreement with the state.

Governor Jon S. Corzine today announced an electronic Autism Registry that will make it easier for families of children with autism and other special health care needs to be connected to the appropriate diagnostic, treatment and support services in their communities.

Three major types of professionals exist in the treatment and provision of mental health.

The World Health Organisation predicts that in 20 years time more people will be affected by depression than any other health problem.

INTERNET therapy programs for depression and anxiety can be twice as effective as seeing a psychologist or psychiatrist in person, studies show.

Psychiatrists working at Alberta Hospital are planning to meet Tuesday demanding that the Alberta government put a temporary hold on any changes at the facility so that doctors can be consulted.

New York, Oxford University Press, 2008, 464 pp., $42.95. THOMAS M. WISE, M.D. Falls Church, Va.

Some thoughtful responses to the Fact magazine poll... Libel is a form of defamation of character - a harsh and untrue vilification of another.

One of the most influential and controversial papers in psychiatry was from a 1976 study published in The Lancet that found that people with schizophrenia had larger fluid filled ventricles in the brain.

Many mentally disabled adults could be blocked from getting the help they need after the province quietly rejigged eligibility requirements for assistance programs, critics say.

Why do psychologists reject science? Published OctA 2, 2009 From the magazine issue dated Oct 12, 2009 A A It's a good thing couches are too heavy to throw, because the fight brewing among therapists is getting ugly.

New York, Oxford University Press, 2008, 208 pp., $65.00. PAUL JAY FINK, M.D. Bala Cynwyd, Pa.