Psychiatry

the last child of his parents and I experienced how that negatively affected their marriage and the family as a whole. A year after that incident, during my psychiatry clerkship in medical school I came across a young medical doctor who had been newly diagnosed with schizophrenia. These two events influenced my initial interest in psychiatry. My friend BM was a young man who had been introduced to illicit drugs by friends during high school. The medical doctor on the other hand started hearing voices

medicine and theoretical interests of philosophy. Fulford’s book, has lunged into exploring the philosophical point of view. This philosophical analysis feeds upon moral theory and can help resolve the difficulties prevailing in the practice of psychiatry and medicine that arise from the difficulty in the way that disease and illness

Dr. Straker has been in private practice on the Upper East Side of Manhattan for the past 12 years. He is an Attending Psychiatrist on staff at Columbia University Medical Center - NY Presbyterian Hospital, Lenox Hill Hospital, Long Island Jewish Medical Center and North Shore University Hospital. He also works in the Emergency Room and as a Consultation-Liaison Psychiatrist at White Plains Hospital. He was the Director of the Psychosomatic Medicine Fellowship at Long Island Jewish Medical Center

Mental Health and Euthanasia/Assisted Suicide       It is obvious to the TV viewer that under the banners of compassion and autonomy, some are calling for legal recognition of a "right to suicide" and societal acceptance of "physician-assisted suicide." Suicide proponents evoke the image of someone facing unendurable suffering who calmly and rationally decides death is better than life in such a state. They argue that society should respect and defer to the freedom of choice such people exercise

training and experience related to numerous intermixes of mental health with the law. Only a few psychiatrists and psychologists specialize in forensics. Forensic psychiatrists provide expert information in human psychiatry that could be helpful in various criminal cases. They apply the psychiatry theory to criminal behavior and want to help offenders make positive changes. Forensic psychiatrists have a possibility of being involved with legal issues. Some of those legal issues

Moral therapy was not only restricted to England, this concept was seen throughout Europe as well. Philippe Pinel a physician in Paris, “integrated moral treatment into the care of the insane by removing the chains of patients, improving their living conditions, and treating them with care.” Pinel referred to “madness as ‘mental alienation’; a straying from reason,” he insisted on distinguishing his ideas “from moral treatment practices at the York Retreat.” Pinel tried to “classify patients into

2013) aims to provide a ‘common language’ for describing psychopathology in order to provide the best patient care for both the individuals. As useful as this manual has been in the past, worries have expressed with regards to future direction that psychiatry is moving towards following the many updates and additions made to the diagnostic criteria within the DSM-5 it has been argued “when does psychological suffering become an illness?”. The purpose of this writing is to critically discuss the necessity

Introduction There will be an observation of when mental health was founded, then mental health will be critically explored, by investigating the meaning of mental good or poor health. A discussion on two perspectives will be then be attempted, by comparing and contrasting their ways of working with people with poor mental health and a brief understanding of the involvement of the mental health patient/ service user. There will also be a brief explanation on multidisciplinary approach that meets

has operated continuously 500 years and was not originally started as a hospital , it was supposed be be some sort of religious house . In 1330 AD , a large hospital was built and eventually became the infamous Bedlam . (http://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/psychiatry-history-bedlam-bethlem-bethlehem.htm) Mad houses could be considered jails for the social control of people who did not fit in or who were targets of retaliation. If one had the money they could most likely be committed to a mental hospital

Ignorance, misconceptions, and fear about the nature of mental health issues in the Soviet Union were chiefly responsible for the restrictive availability of effective treatments for mentally ill Soviets. Soviet psychiatry was originally rooted in the principle that unhealthy social dynamics were the primary cause of mental deficiencies. This naturally meant that treatment options were primitive in the early years of the Soviet Union, as physicians did not appreciate the biological factors driving