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"

Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
A Matter of Death and Life
The Devil You Know: Stories of Human Cruelty and Compassion
Trauma: The Invisible Epidemic: How Trauma Works and How We Can Heal From It
Sedated: How Modern Capitalism Created our Mental Health Crisis
The Urge: Our History of Addiction
Jak człowiek staje się mordercą. Mroczne opowieści psychiatry sądowego
Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistance
ADHD. Mózg łowcy i inne supermoce
Brain Energy: A Revolutionary Breakthrough in Understanding Mental Health—and Improving Treatment for Anxiety, Depression, OCD, PTSD, and More
Projections: A Story of Human Emotions
Committed: Dispatches from a Psychiatrist in Training
Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism
Mad World: The Politics of Mental Health (Outspoken by Pluto)
What We Fear Most: Reflections on a Life in Forensic Psychiatry
Psychedelics: The revolutionary drugs that could change your life – a guide from the expert
Choroba idzie ze mną. O psychiatrii poza szpitalem
Głośnik w głowie. O leczeniu psychiatrycznym w Polsce
The Way She Feels: My Life on the Borderline in Pictures and Pieces
When Brains Dream: Exploring the Science and Mystery of Sleep
The Hidden Spring: A Journey to the Source of Consciousness
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
How Not to Kill Yourself: A Portrait of the Suicidal Mind
A History of Delusions: The Glass King, a Substitute Husband and a Walking Corpse
Your Consent Is Not Required
Sexy But Psycho: How the Patriarchy Uses Women’s Trauma Against Them

Megan Chance
Calling it lunacy makes it easier to explain away the things we don't understand. ...more
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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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