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 ...more

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The Gift of Not Belonging: How Outsiders Thrive in a World of Joiners

Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us

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

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Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistance

The Only Cure: Freud and the Neuroscience of Mental Healing

Choroba idzie ze mną. O psychiatrii poza szpitalem

Hour of the Heart: Connecting in the Here and Now

How Not to Kill Yourself: A Portrait of the Suicidal Mind

Committed: Dispatches from a Psychiatrist in Training

Truth and Repair: How Trauma Survivors Envision Justice

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When Brains Dream: Exploring the Science and Mystery of Sleep

Facing the Unseen: The Struggle to Center Mental Health in Medicine

The Way She Feels: My Life on the Borderline in Pictures and Pieces

Girls and Their Monsters: The Genain Quadruplets and the Making of Madness in America

Mad World: The Politics of Mental Health (Outspoken by Pluto)

Sexy But Psycho: How the Patriarchy Uses Women’s Trauma Against Them

Pathological: The True Story of Six Misdiagnoses

Sedated: How Modern Capitalism Created our Mental Health Crisis

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

What We Fear Most: Reflections on a Life in Forensic Psychiatry

A History of Delusions: The Glass King, a Substitute Husband and a Walking Corpse

The Hidden Spring: A Journey to the Source of Consciousness

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Quotes Tagged “Psychiatry”

“ My love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection. ”
― Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents

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“ The 16 characteristics of psychopaths: 1. Intelligent 2. Rational 3. Calm 4. Unreliable 5. Insincere 6. Without shame or remorse 7. Having poor judgment 8. Without capacity for love 9. Unemotional 10. Poor insight 11. Indifferent to the trust or kindness of others 12. Overreactive to alcohol 13. Suicidal 14. Impersonal sex life 15. Lacking long-term goals 16. Inadequately motivated antisocial behavior ”
― Hervey M. Cleckley, The Mask of Sanity

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