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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The Devil You Know: Stories of Human Cruelty and Compassion
A Matter of Death and Life
Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistance
Brain Energy: A Revolutionary Breakthrough in Understanding Mental Health—and Improving Treatment for Anxiety, Depression, OCD, PTSD, and More
Mad World: The Politics of Mental Health (Outspoken by Pluto)
Trauma: The Invisible Epidemic: How Trauma Works and How We Can Heal From It
Sedated: How Modern Capitalism Created our Mental Health Crisis
The Hidden Spring: A Journey to the Source of Consciousness
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How Not to Kill Yourself: A Portrait of the Suicidal Mind
ADHD. Mózg łowcy i inne supermoce
Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism
Sexy But Psycho: How the Patriarchy Uses Women’s Trauma Against Them
An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
Man's Search for Meaning
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Shrinks: The Untold Story of Psychiatry
The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry
Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America
The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness
The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook
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Mad in America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill
Girl, Interrupted

They called me mad, and I called them mad, and damn them, they outvoted me.
Nathaniel Lee

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Can you smell his sweat? That peculiar goatish odor is trans-3-methyl-2 hexenoic acid. Remember it, it's the smell of schizophrenia. ...more
Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs

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