psychiatry

From Australia: "MDMA, the active ingredient in party drugs such as ecstasy, will be able to be prescribed to some patients experiencing post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). "Psilocybin, a compound found in psychotropic "magic" mushrooms, will be listed as medicine for for treatment-resistant...

Military veterans with PTSD turn to yoga and meditation Sure, anecdotes are great, and that article has several. But does it really work? Turns out, it might. There is a limited amount of evidence that yoga and meditation are marginally effective in assisting to manage the symptoms of PTSD...

When I was a kid I watched The Snake Pit, featuring Olivia de Havilland as a raving loony who gets locked in a padded cell during the 1920s. We've come such a long way since then. A case has come to light of an autistic man who has not been convicted of crimes, but who has been held in a small...

This little piece about False Memories of Satanic Ritual Abuse has already caused an uproar. As concise and straight-forward as possible, I tried to convey the story of one Mark Schwartz, co-founder of Castlewood Treatment Center (an eating disorders clinic), being taken off the clinic's staff...

I ran across this website on Facebook. https://www.seculartherapy.org/index.php The website seems to be trying to get a database of therapists willing or skilled in helping people in separating from religious or cult indoctrination, and matching them up with individuals seeking help. I don't...

It seems that science has little to say about what is commonly called a "nervous breakdown". Science and psychiatry in particular have a lot to say about many other mental disorders that interfere with living, but the "nervous breakdown" isn't one of them, to my knowledge. Now the reason for...

Of course, the link between creative genius and madness and melancholia has long been known. Now brain scientists think they may have found one neurological basis for this. This is BBC news story on research carried out by scientists at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden, who discovered a...

I will never be a reductionist materialist about everything, and there's no use trying. But that's IT, I've HAD it; I really think I'll subscribe to that philosophy to at least some degree in ONE field, and that's psychiatry. I do not want to deal with ANY more nutty ideas about how indigo...

After reading "On Being Sane In Insane Places" by David L. Rosenhan, I have some questions: How permanent are psychiatric diagnoses? Are most patients considered to be 'in remission' and rarely if ever 'healed'? Is an initial diagnosis questioned after it has been made, or is it merely...

(Now as a caveat i do want to say that I am against the political repression of dissent as used by some states in psychiatric admission.) However I am very opposed to Thomas Szasz and his theory of "The Myth of mental Illness”, even at the time he published the book in 1961, the organic nature...

(Posting in medical forum, though maybe it should go in tv? Not sure...) A new tv show premiered on Fox last night, called Mental. It centers around a "radically unorthodox psychiatrist" and his team. I am actually hopeful for this series: while of course much of it involved scenarios that...

Shortly after I graduated from high school, I read a book by Flora Reta Schreiber called Sybil. Many of you are probably familiar with it. It tells the story of a young art student in New York in the 1950s and 60s who, with the help of a loving and sympathetic psychiatrist, discovers that she...

If this were anyone but a doctor from a politically sacred specialty, then people would be screaming FRAUD!, woo, scam artist.... Don't let a cool $1.6 million make you suspicious though. That's very small change compared to what corporations rake in by calling you crazy and "curing" you...

While what he did was wrong and has been found out by his professional body - how curious that anti-psychiatry Scientologists should be instrumental in undermining a psychiatrist with such a very public profile in the UK. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article4179597.ece

See if you're one of the "lucky" residents. I can't currently comment, as big veins are sticking out of my forehead and coherent speech is proving difficult. :mad:

I just heard on NPR that a study has been published which would indicate that studies which are positive of psychiatic medication usage are published at a rate of 90% as compared to studies which are negative of use which are published at 8%. So there is a definite bias in publishing research...

The event happened last week; this is news from the preliminary hearing. I found a couple of articles: I just butchered my family Scientologist parents denied treatment

Woman stabbed Scientologist parents http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=3&art_id=nw20070709105012263C912426 I found it interesting that the article ended on this note: Wow, a news source actually holding people accountable. Next thing we're going to see in an article, "The...

Congressional hearings are occuring concerning the risk of suicide and antidepressants. Much anecdotal evidence is being presented. And of course the alleged link of the alleged lack of a link between suicide and antidepressants. First off : nomenclature! Suicidal tendancies do not exist! It...

http://www.neurotherapyclinic.com/neuro_main.htm I've been trying to cure myself of depression for a while now. If it weren't so damn debilitating, I would probably have given a little more time to more controlled experiments. As it is, however, I've blown through five different medications...

Let's agree for the purpose of this thread that Psychiatry has a mixed record of success and failure, and that in principle, at least, it is improving as knowledge about the brain improves. Even if we rule out weird quack therapies, there are a lot of tough choices to be made about what...

So driving to work this morning I was having quite an interesting time observing my complete lack of free will. We are used to, though often not happy with, not being in control of external events. Get a bad diagnosis at the doctors, and well, we find out we aren't as adjusted to that reality as...

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/01/opinion/01shields.html?hp Brooke Shieilds responds to Cruise. Today's NYTimes. May need to register to access.