Psychiatry

What Is PTSD?: A Post-Hasan Primer

Scott Mendelson, M.D. | Posted 11.20.2009 | Living

Read More: Psychiatry, Dementia, Alzheimer's, Major Hasan, Military-Psychologists, Ptsd, Health Care, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Living News

Claims that mental health workers are at risk for PTSD from treating their patients add an unnecessary layer of confusion to the question of how we can best serve our veterans.

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Is My Baby Angry?

parenting.com | Posted 11.17.2009 | Living

Read More: Raising Children, Psychiatry, Child Development, Psychology, Anger, Parenting, Babies, Baby, Children, Living News

Your 4-month-old looks amazingly like that always-furious boss you once had, but what is she really feeling?...

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Could Fort Hood Tragedy Been Avoided?

Lawrence J. Siegel | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Psychiatry, Nidal Malik Hasan, Fort Hood, Veterans PTSD, Ptsd, September 11th, Fort Hood Shootings, Politics News

As a child psychologist, I worked with families who were affected in the aftermath of September 11. My three decades as a mental health professional did not fully prepare me for this task.

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Writing "Beyond Blue": Keeping My End of the Bargain

Therese Borchard | Posted 11.12.2009 | Books

Read More: Stigma, Suicide, Depression, Psychiatry, Writing, Authors, Anxiety, Mental Illness, Books, Mood Disorders, Beyond Blue, Therapy, Books News

Here I am. With my mission: to educate folks about mental illness and to offer support to those who, like myself, suffer from mood disorders.

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Hasan, Fort Hood, and the Need to Reassert, "Wow, I'm an American!"

Dr. Peter Breggin | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Psychiatry, Nidal Hasan, Peter Breggin, Fort Hood, Pc, Politically Correct, Terrorist, Traitor, Politics News

The military failed to protect itself from Major Nidal Hasan. Why? Because it has been neutered by the shame and guilt engendered by political correctness.

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The Real Red Flag Raised By Fort Hood

David A. Love | Posted 11.11.2009 | Living

Read More: US Military, Persian Gulf, War on Terror, Trauma, War in Afghanistan, Timothy McVeigh, Muslim Americans, Afghan War, Violence, Psychology, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Veterans, Gun Violence, Politics News, Politics, Iraq PTSD, Iraq Veterans, Military, Vietnam War, Nidal Malik Hasan, Muslims, Ptsd, Us Troops Afghanistan, National Institutes of Health, Psychiatry, Depression, Fort Hood, Mental Health, Crime, Terrorism, War, Suicide, Iraq Veterans' Mental Health, War in Iraq, Al Qaeda, Afghanistan War, Texas, Army, Anti-Muslim Bias, Muslim, Oklahoma City Bombing, Fort Hood Shootings, Living News

As a repository for violence, the military is not dealing with untreated mental illness among its ranks. The fact that Hasan was a mental health professional underscores the problem.

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Nidal Hasan Warned Army During 2007 Walter Reed Speech, Urged Release Of Muslims From US Military

Washington Post | Dana Priest | Posted 11.09.2009 | Home

The Army psychiatrist believed to have killed 13 people at Fort Hood warned a roomful of senior Army physicians a year and a half ago that to avoid "a...

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Fort Hood: When Stress Kills

Roberta Lee | Posted 11.09.2009 | Living

Read More: Stress, Psychiatry, Killing Spree, Stress Reduction, Majar Nadal Malik, American Muslims, Ptsd, Anxiety, The Balanced Life, Living News

It's beginning to look like our lives are more at stake than we care to acknowledge and if we don't do something different, well...any one of us could be dead sooner than we think.

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Major Hasan Did Not "Catch" Vicarious PTSD

Scott Mendelson, M.D. | Posted 11.10.2009 | Living

Read More: Psychiatry, Military, Major Hasan, Ptsd, Crime, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Living News

A well trained psychiatrist or psychologist is not driven into violent frenzy by dealing with the trauma of soldiers, nor do they acquire those soldiers' emotional wounds vicariously.

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Psychiatry's Dirty Little Secret

Scott Mendelson, M.D. | Posted 11.09.2009 | Living

Read More: Psychiatry, British Journal of Psychiatry, Depression, Relationships, Metabolic Syndrome, Anti-Depressants, Living News

Of people prescribed an antidepressant to treat their Major Depression, only about 25% enjoy complete resolution of symptoms, another 50% feel some relief, and the last unfortunate 25% get no relief at all.

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Fort Hood Shootings: Soldiers Often 'Racialize' to Cope

Aaron Glantz | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Psychiatry, Arabs, Fort Hood, Homeless, Iraq, Ptsd, Fort Hood Shootings, Arab Americans, Veterans, Politics News

I was surprised that it was a psychiatrist that shot a lot of people. It's no longer surprising to me that returning veterans would kill a bunch of people. But this guy was a psychiatrist who hadn't been deployed.

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Why Hasan Did It: Are Shrinks Really Crazy?

Dr. Robert Epstein | Posted 11.06.2009 | Home

Read More: Psychiatry, Ft Hood Shooting, Psychology, Shrinks, Crazy Shrinks, Hasan, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, Home News

The tragedy at Ft. Hood reminded me of an extensive investigative piece I wrote for Psychology Today a few years ago. I'm reprinting it below. The w...

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The Mass Production of Mental Illness and What To Do About It

Anis Shivani | Posted 11.05.2009 | Books

Read More: Thomas Szasz, Dopamine, Walden Two, Dsm, Drug Companies, Richard P. Bentall, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Prozac, Psychosis, Fda, Electroconvulsive Therapy, Schizophrenia, Madness, American Psychiatric Association, Ssris, B. F. Skinner, Neurotransmitters, Evidence-Based Medicine, Treatment of Mental Illness, Psychiatry, Depression, Chlorpromazine, Drug Company Profits, Randomized Controlled Trials, Mental Asylums, Big Pharma, Ect, Placebo, Rose Kennedy, Insulin Coma Therapy, Antipsychiatry, Mental Illness, Pharmaceutical Industry, R. D. Laing, Brain Chemistry, Carl Rogers, Prefrontal Leucotomy, Psychiatric Drugs, Genetics, Psychiatric Practice, Walter Freeman, Emil Kraepelin, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, Book Reviews, Books, Books News

Dr. Richard P. Bentall, professor and practitioner of clinical psychology in Britain, exposes the highly dubious nature of reigning presumptions about the causes and treatment of mental illness.

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The Growing Problem of Adolescent Addiction: NYC Wants to Create a "Recovery High School"

Dr. Tian Dayton | Posted 10.16.2009 | New York

Read More: Teens-and-Drugs, Addiction, Preteens-and-Teens-Eating-Disorder-Prevention, Recovery High Schools, Psychiatry, New York City, New York News

97% of seniors who are enrolled in "recovery high schools" graduate. And they graduate sober.

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Learn to Help Children Without Psychiatric Drugs

Dr. Peter Breggin | Posted 10.24.2009 | Living

Read More: Psychiatric Drugs, Psychiatry, Peter Breggin, Children, Psychiatric Diagnoses Families, Living News

Learn how psychiatric diagnoses disempower children and mislead their parents and teachers. Learn how psychiatric drugs retard the development of children, cause serious adverse effects.

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US News And World Report's Best Hospitals In America

US News And World Report | Posted 08.16.2009 | Living

US News and World Report's list of Top American Hospitals. Browse Rankings by Specialty: * Cancer * Diabetes & Endocrine Disorders ...

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Medication Madness: How Psychiatric Drugs Cause Violence, Suicide, and Crime

Dr. Peter Breggin | Posted 09.13.2009 | Living

Read More: Suicide, Violence, Psychiatry, Psychiatric Drugs, Medication Spellbinding, Involuntary Intoxication, Crime, Breggin, Living News

We need to be able to take complete responsibility for ourselves and to think through our problems with rational clarity. All psychiatric drugs impair those higher mental functions.

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Can You Trust Your Psychiatrist?

Lloyd I. Sederer, MD | Posted 07.31.2009 | Living

Read More: Clinical Trials, Psychiatry, Pharmaceutical Industry, Zyprexa, Eli Lilly, National Alliance for Mental Illness, National-Mental-Health-Association, Psychiatric Drugs, National Institute of Mental Health, Advertising-Industry, US Justice Department, Living News

If you can't trust big Pharma with its capacity to influence doctors then how can you trust your psychiatrist?

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Stimulants for ADHD Shown to Cause Sudden Death in Children

Dr. Peter Breggin | Posted 09.13.2009 | Living

Read More: Psychiatry, Peter Breggin, ADHD Drug Deaths, Ritalin Deaths, Psychiatric Drugs, Children's Health, Child Death, Stimulants Cause Sudden Death, Living News

Our children don't need drugs--they need us to protect them from misguided health professionals while we make every effort to meet their real needs in our families and schools.

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Old Drug, New Drug . . . Red Drug, Blue Drug?

James S. Gordon | Posted 06.26.2009 | Green

This letter of mine appeared in The New York Times yesterday (in somewhat shortened form), under the title, "Alternatives to New Drugs." I thought yo...

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Coming Out of the Closet: My Climate Trauma (and Yours?)

Gillian Caldwell | Posted 06.05.2009 | Green

Read More: Witness, Mental Health, TED Conference, Climate Change, Psychology, Al Gore, Global Warming, 1sky, Psychiatry, Green News

As I started to immerse myself in the science and early impacts of global warming, I became increasingly distraught.

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How It Is: Psychiatrists, Physicians, and Torture

Dan Agin | Posted 05.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Psychiatry, Terror, National Security, Guantanamo, Torture, Politics News

If the design of torture at Guantanamo came from psychiatrists, they should bear the full brunt of public condemnation.

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Our Moral Obligation

Lise Van Susteren | Posted 05.17.2009 | Green

Read More: Suicide, Psychiatry, Child Abuse, Mental Health, Climate Change, Green News

Lethal global overheating - strike the innocuous sounding "global warming" - is not something that may happen in the next century or even mid-century - it is happening now.

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Why We Need a Council of Psychological Advisors

Barry Schwartz | Posted 04.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Public Policy, Education, Health Care, Economy, Stress, Psychiatry, George Soros, Barack Obama, Psychology, Presidetn Obama, Reflexivity, Politics News

The U.S. needs a Council of Psychological Advisors that parallels the Council of Economic Advisors. There are many current problems that such a council could help solve.

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Facing Your Fears

Nicole Williams | Posted 04.10.2009 | Living

Read More: Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, Fear, Fear-of-Failure, Disappointment, Embarassment, Selfhelp, Humiliation, Confidence, Fear of Failure, Self-Help, Living News

Your fears are uniquely yours and yours alone (I'm not sure if that's good news or bad) and there are thousands of possibilities of what you might be afraid of.

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