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
Mon vrai nom est Elisabeth
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
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
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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
Projections: A Story of Human Emotions
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
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

Bessel van der Kolk
“ Imagination is absolutely critical to the quality of our lives. Our imagination enables us to leave our routine everyday existence by fantasizing about travel, food, sex, falling in love, or having the last word—all the things that make life interesting. Imagination gives us the opportunity to envision new possibilities—it is an essential launchpad for making our hopes come true. It fires our creativity, relieves our boredom, alleviates our pain, enhances our pleasure, and enriches our most inti ...more ”
― Bessel A. van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

Mordecai Richler
“ I don't hold with shamans, witch doctors, or psychiatrists. Shakespeare, Tolstoy, or even Dickens, understood more about the human condition than ever occurred to any of you. You overrated bunch of charlatans deal with the grammar of human problems, and the writers I've mentioned with the essence. ...more ”
― Mordecai Richler, Barney's Version

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