Most Read This Week In Psychiatry

Psychiatry is the medical specialty devoted to the diagnosis, prevention, study, and treatment of mental disorders. These include various abnormalities related to mood, behaviour, cognition, and perceptions.

Initial psychiatric assessment of a person typically begins with a case history and mental status examination. Physical examinations and psychological tests may be conducted. On occasion, neuroimaging or other neurophysiological techniques are used. Mental disorders are often diagnosed in accordance with criteria listed in diagnostic manuals such as the widely used Diagnostic and Statistica
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Most Read This Week Tagged "Psychiatry"

El cuerpo de Cristo
A Matter of Death and Life
Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistance
The Devil You Know: Stories of Human Cruelty and Compassion
Brain Energy: A Revolutionary Breakthrough in Understanding Mental Health—and Improving Treatment for Anxiety, Depression, OCD, PTSD, and More
What We Fear Most: Reflections on a Life in Forensic Psychiatry
Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism
Trauma: The Invisible Epidemic: How Trauma Works and How We Can Heal From It
Jak człowiek staje się mordercą. Mroczne opowieści psychiatry sądowego
How Not to Kill Yourself: A Portrait of the Suicidal Mind
Committed: Dispatches from a Psychiatrist in Training
Mad World: The Politics of Mental Health (Outspoken by Pluto)
ADHD. Mózg łowcy i inne supermoce
Projections: A Story of Human Emotions
Psychedelics: The revolutionary drugs that could change your life – a guide from the expert
Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness
The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World
The Way She Feels: My Life on the Borderline in Pictures and Pieces
Sedated: How Modern Capitalism Created our Mental Health Crisis
Głośnik w głowie. O leczeniu psychiatrycznym w Polsce
The Urge: Our History of Addiction
When Brains Dream: Exploring the Science and Mystery of Sleep
The Hidden Spring: A Journey to the Source of Consciousness
Facing the Unseen: The Struggle to Center Mental Health in Medicine
Your Consent Is Not Required
Choroba idzie ze mną. O psychiatrii poza szpitalem
Sexy But Psycho: How the Patriarchy Uses Women’s Trauma Against Them
A History of Delusions: The Glass King, a Substitute Husband and a Walking Corpse

Neel Burton
You see, people in the depressive position are often stigmatised as ‘failures' or ‘losers'. Of course, nothing could be further from the truth. If these people are in the depressive position, it is most probably because they have tried too hard or taken on too much, so hard and so much that they have made themselves ‘ill with depression'. In other words, if these people are in the depressive position, it is because their world was simply not good enough for them. They wanted more, they wanted be ...more
Neel Burton

Thomas Szasz
Is psychiatry a medical enterprise concerned with treating diseases, or a humanistic enterprise concerned with helping persons with their personal problems? Psychiatry could be one or the other, but it cannot--despite the pretensions and protestations of psichiatrists--be both.
Thomas Szasz

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