Risk Analysis: Tips for Health Care Practitioners
May 4th 2011Risk analysis is an ongoing process that should provide an organization with a detailed understanding of its risks and information necessary to address those risks in a timely manner, and the means to reduce associated risks to reasonable and appropriate levels.
Ketamine: A Possible Role for Patients Who Are Running Out of Options?
May 3rd 2011If ketamine is able to turn off a patient’s depression, even for one day, you have accomplished something important, whether or not you can maintain it. This is because you have at least given the patient hope . . . that in itself is very significant from a therapeutic perspective.
Most Rapists Are Not Sadists: How To Tell The Difference and Why It Is So Important
May 2nd 2011Rape is always a heinous, ugly, violent, and cruel crime. But the violence and cruelty that are part of all rapes should not be confused with the specifically motivated violence and cruelty that distinguish sexual sadism...
Poor Practice, Managed Care, and Magic Pills: Have We Created a Mental Health Monster?
April 30th 2011Anyone working in the mental health field will recognize that in patients with extreme irritability, explosive behavior, or quick mood changes, bipolar disorder (BD) is often unquestionably diagnosed.
Marijuana Withdrawal Syndrome: Should Cannabis Withdrawal Disorder Be Included in DSM-5?
April 28th 2011DSM-IV, published in 1994, did not include a cannabis withdrawal disorder diagnosis. DSM-IV-TR clearly stated the reason for the omission: “Symptoms of possible cannabis withdrawal . . . have been described in association with the use of very high doses, but their clinical significance is uncertain.”1
1c4m intro - psychiatric times
April 28th 2011Every new healthcare professional that creates a free account with Psychiatric Times.com will trigger our donation of $10 to the international non-profit organization Doctors Without Borders/Mdecins Sans Frontires (MSF) – a non-profit delivering emergency medical assistance to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, malnutrition, natural disasters, or exclusion from health care in nearly 60 countries. It's our way of promoting global social good for doctors caring for those in desperate need. Our goal is to donate $25,000 over the month of June – enough to immunize and nourish over 10,000 children and provide clean water to thousands of people in need.
US Psych Congress 2011 summary
April 27th 2011The latest research on psychiatric disorders will be presented at the 2011 Psych Congress in Las Vegas, Nevada, held from November 7 - 10. The staff of Psychiatric Times will provide news coverage on a number of topics including including ADHD, anxiety, bipolar disorder, depression, and schizophrenia. In addition, we will be interviewing many of the faculty and posting the interviews online as podcasts for download.
The Personality Follies Keep Marching On
April 22nd 2011The personality proposals are certainly not the most dangerous part of DSM-5-but they do win the prize for being absolutely the silliest. They offer a riot of impossibly intricate detail with a level of complexity that could never be of any use in any real world setting.
Introduction: Looking to the Future of Psychopharmacology
April 20th 2011The focus of this Special Report is on some future-oriented aspects of psychopharmacology. First, it is an eclectic set of articles that cover treating resistant depression, using currently illegal drugs to treat psychiatric problems, and finally the potential of using vaccines to treat substance use disorders.
Poll: I often use psychodynamic or cognitive principles during a medication meeting with a patient
April 19th 2011Our continuation of a survey on the accuracy of a recent article “Talk Doesn’t Pay, So Psychiatry Turns Instead to Drug Therapy” that seems to reduce the practice of psychiatry to a 15-minute med check.