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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El cuerpo de Cristo
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
The Criminal Mind
A Matter of Death and Life
Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism
Brain Energy: A Revolutionary Breakthrough in Understanding Mental Health—and Improving Treatment for Anxiety, Depression, OCD, PTSD, and More
Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistance
How Not to Kill Yourself: A Portrait of the Suicidal Mind
Głośnik w głowie. O leczeniu psychiatrycznym w Polsce
The Only Cure: Freud and the Neuroscience of Mental Healing
ADHD. Mózg łowcy i inne supermoce
What We Fear Most: Reflections on a Life in Forensic Psychiatry
Committed: Dispatches from a Psychiatrist in Training
Man's Search for Meaning
An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
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
Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America
The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry
The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook
Mad in America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill
Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy
The Bell Jar
How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics

Carl Elliott
“ On Prozac, Sisyphus might well push the boulder back up the mountain with more enthusiasm and creativity. I do not want to deny the benefits of psychoactive medication. I just want to point out that Sisyphus is not a patient with a mental health problem. To see him as a patient with a mental health problem is to ignore certain larger aspects of his predicament connected to boulders, mountains, and eternity. ”
― Carl Elliott

Rodney Dangerfield
“ I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous - everyone hasn't met me yet. ...more ”
― Rodney Dangerfield

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