Bipolar Disorder

"The bottom line is that the Army needs to fix the inconsistencies we have seen in diagnosing the invisible wounds of war," said Sen.

Joe Orton's farcical What The Butler Saw applies that idea to a psychiatrist's surgery in 1960s London.

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders , long the master reference work in psychiatry, is seriously flawed and needs radical change from its current "field guide" form, according to an essay by two Johns Hopkins psychiatrists published in the May 17 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.

Newswise - The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders , long the master reference work in psychiatry, is seriously flawed and needs radical change from its current "field guide" form, according to an essay by two Johns Hopkins psychiatrists published in the May 17 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.

For many psychologists, the clearest sign that their field was in trouble came, ironically, from a study about premonition.

UT Southwestern Medical Center psychiatrists are leading a national clinical trial to find biomarkers that can better predict how people suffering from depression will respond to medications so physicians eventually can personalize treatments.

Psychiatrist Yao Xueyang says he has been overloaded with work ever since he started at Yichang Mental Health Center six years ago.

The president of the US has endorsed same-sex marriage, but the American Psychiatric Association is about to finalize a new Diagnostic and Statistical Manual with atavistic quack "diagnoses" of profound "mental illnesses" such as cross-dressing and boys playing with dolls.

Newswise - DALLAS - May 15, 2012 - UT Southwestern Medical Center psychiatrists are leading a national clinical trial to find biomarkers that can better predict how people suffering from depression will respond to medications so physicians eventually can personalize treatments.

Today I'm presenting a guest post from Lois Holzman, Ph.D. Lois is the director of the East Side Institute for Group and Short Term Psychotherapy and the author of Unscientific Psychology: A Cultural-Performatory Approach to Understanding Human Life ; Vygotsky at Work and Play ; The End of Knowing: A New Developmental Way of Learning ; and other ... (more)

Harvard's Massachusetts General Hospital's psychiatric department is now saying that you need "help" if you are "too religious" or don't like the way you look .

Mental treatments involving counselling and psychotropic drugs often leave patients with expensive medical bills.

Toward the end of "Beyond Therapy," one character, a daffy psychiatrist, airily observes: "If you look at psychological suffering from the right point of view, you can find the humor in it." That might have been one of Christopher Durang's guiding principles as he wrote the 1981 satiric farce, now in polished production at Woods Hole Theater ... (more)

It has become clear for some time that there is no limit to which a leftist will go in there attempt to control mankind from the cradle to the grave.

In what could prove to be one of their most far-reaching decisions, psychiatrists and other specialists who are rewriting the manual that serves as the nation's arbiter of mental illness have agreed to revise the definition of addiction, which could result in millions more people being diagnosed as addicts and pose huge consequences for health ... (more)

The UAE health ministry, the Health Authority-Abu Dhabi and AstraZeneca are set to launch the first nationwide study of schizophrenia treatments this month, examining the drugs and doses given to 600 patients, The National has reported.

If a military veteran went to the hospital with an obvious wound, it's natural to expect that treatment would commence without delay.

By Paul Latimer - Kelowna Capital News Published: May 11, 2012 10:00 AM Updated: May 11, 2012 11:00 AM After almost two decades, the psychiatric diagnostic manual is being revised and re-published next year and there are a lot of changes in store.

This in-house video from The Acadia Hospital shows David Proffitt, then president and CEO, describing efforts to create "coercion-free care environments and injury-free worksites." BANGOR, Maine - It has been just more than a year since David Proffitt, the much-maligned former president and CEO of The Acadia Hospital in Bangor, tendered his forced ... (more)

Dr. Avram H. Mack, a child and adolescent psychiatrist in Washington, D.C., wonders if an explosion in childhood bipolar disorder reflects a true increase in the condition, or the inappropriate labeling of some youngsters that potentially could hold them back the rest of their lives.