Robert M. Kaplan, MBChB, FRANZCP, MA, MPhil

Long-term antidepressant use rises in Australia, surging among individuals aged 10 to 24, with more off-label sleep and pain prescribing raising safety and withdrawal concerns.

Discover engaging holiday reads that blend entertainment with profound insights, featuring classics and modern works that explore the human psyche.

"Despite many unanswered questions, Daniel M’Naghten is forever remembered as the man who set a lasting legal precedent."

“Hunter’s book is excellently written and highly recommended for readers who want to understand the enormous power of myth in the Australian identity.”

Widely recognized as the prime mover behind the psychosomatic medicine movement, Helen Flanders Dunbar, MD, PhD. was a clinician, writer, and founder of the American Psychosomatic Society.

Against the backdrop of European fascism, an Italian physician pioneered a new treatment.

The rise and fall of a brilliant medical pioneer.

Kids wander in, dogs jump up, and connection fails.

In 18th-century France, physicians searched for the causes of mental illness and debated how best to treat it.

Adolf Hitler, the genocidal monster of the twentieth century, would not seem to be someone likely to seek psychological counseling, let alone respond.

Treatment for "the scourge of psychiatry" involved malariotherapy-infecting the patient with malaria; the resulting high fevers were believed to kill off the syphilis organisms.

This month in history: Determined to regard his patients as individuals, Swiss psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler sought to understand his patients and coined the term schizophrenia.

Pseudopatients and their discontents: an historical perspective.

In the early years, treatment was largely restricted to restraint and sedation with great emphasis placed on fresh air for prevention of mental illness. Later, the aim of treatment was to prevent transfer of patients to country asylums.