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Is it Ever Okay to Lie?
We've been having a great discussion over on the post Tell Me.... An Ethical Dilemma. The post talks about a young man who wants to know if he can check "no" to a question about whether he has a psychiatric disorder if his illness is not relevant to the situation. The comments have been fascinating -- do read them-- and very thought-provoking. One reader asked, " If a patient asked if they were boring you, and they were, would you say yes?" This is a great question, and of course the right thing to do is to explore with the patient what meaning the concern has to him. But is that all? I'm not ver...
Source: Shrink Rap - November 7, 2011 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Dinah Source Type: blogs

A New Situationist Contributor – Thomas Blass
We are thrilled to introduce a new Situationist Contributor, Dr. Thomas Blass. Thomas Blass is an internationally acclaimed social psychologist and the recognized expert on obedience to authority as well as, more broadly, the research and legacy of Stanley Milgram. A Holocaust survivor born in Budapest, Hungary during World War II, Dr. Blass was a child when the Nazis occupied his country in 1944 and murdered 550,000 of his fellow Hungarian Jews (nearly 70%). Although many of his relatives had been deported to, and murdered in Auschwitz and elsewhere, Dr. Blass survived the war. Subsequently, he left Hungary together with ...
Source: The Situationist - November 6, 2011 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: The Situationist Staff Tags: Situationist Contributors Eric D. Knowles Source Type: blogs

Thawra (=Revolution), now Sadr, City
Was an agricultural territory belonging to Al-Attar family (an old Baghdadi family.) There were many swamps there and many illegal houses built from simple materials that don't shelter from coldness in winter nor hotness in summer. Those illegal lodgments were belonging to those who ran away from the feudalism in the south. They prefer to be near Baghdad to work in this big city. That was when Iraq was a kingdom. At the start of the Republican era of Iraq, Abdul-Kareem Kasim had ordered to build houses in that land and to put them into the possession of its inhabitants. "I will put an end to shanties." said Abdul-Kareem Ka...
Source: psychiatry for all - November 5, 2011 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Source Type: blogs

Come Meet the Shrink Rappers at the Ivy Book Shop on Friday, November 11
JHU Press Night at the Ivy Book Shop on November 11 Meet some of the Press’s local authors and get a jump on holiday shopping at the Ivy Book Shop’s JHU Press Night on November 11, from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. The event at the popular independent book store in north Baltimore is free and open to the public, and refreshments will be served. More than a dozen JHU Press authors will be on hand to meet guests and sign books, including: Gil Sandler (Home Front Baltimore); Cindy Kelly (Outdoor Sculpture in Baltimore); Mike Gesker (The Orioles Encyclopedia); Charley Mitchell (Maryland Voices of the Civil W...
Source: Shrink Rap - November 5, 2011 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Dinah Source Type: blogs

The forgetful Misconi and our heritage
Al-Mada newspaper supplements were heartily missed. From Algeria there was a non-humanized possibility of reading them PDFed. In their paper-form, non-electrified (I live most of my days without electricity using chargeable lights), smelled and humanized goes the reading of the Thursday supplement, Iraqis, from the Blazing Era, issue no. 2290 entitled: "Yusuf Misconi".A friend of him asked him to help him marry that girl. Yusuf Misconi agreed to help. He went to talk to the girl's family about his friend intensions. He saw the girl. He forgot that he was supposed to talk about his friend's intensions. Instead, he asked for...
Source: psychiatry for all - November 4, 2011 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Source Type: blogs

Back to Al-Mutanabbee Street
For the first Friday since more than a year a visit to Al-Mutanabbe Street was feasible. The aim yas specifically to attend the meeting held in Al-Mada Library House to discuss the works Yousuf (=Josef) Ya'akoob (=Jacob) Miskouni had left us. Salim Al-Alousi was talking about his personal memories with Yosuf Yaqoub Miskouni. He told us about Miskouni's interest in Henry Field's works in Iraq and the opening of the Iraqi museum by Miss Bell. Salim Al-Alousi lecturing in Al-Mada House about MiskouniOther lecturers told us about Shamoon Al-Safa school in Mosul which was attended by Miskouni, a school that gave Iraq many of th...
Source: psychiatry for all - November 4, 2011 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Source Type: blogs

Cancer Free Friday: the divided brain
As you probably know by now, I’m fascinated by the way the brain works, and have built my training and coaching career on de Bono’s theories and tools for thinking and creativity. So I LOVE this RSA animation about the way the brain is divided, using as its basis a lecture by psychiatrist Iain McGilchrist. But even if you don’t think you’re interested in the brain at all – even if you’ve never even considered how the brain works,you might want to give ten minutes to this little film. I’m fairly certain that you’ll find something in here that will grab your interest/make you g...
Source: Bah! to cancer - November 4, 2011 Category: Cancer Authors: Stephanie Tags: Cancer Free Friday brain RSA Source Type: blogs

Dora, Dona Maar, La mer Méditerranée
I have entered Iraq exactly before 20 days. No single day I was free. Cleaning lodgment and winter clothes, dealing with water and electricity shortage, travelling back and forth to Karbala to arrange my new job application's papers, and going to that "poop" department for the sake of my family who still abroad since years.My "TO DO" list also contained some pleasure activities classified as duties: visiting a family member or a friend, or reading a novel.Yesterday, I came back from Karbala after giving that "Competence Lecture" that I must succeed at to continue my application for the new job. It was about Conversion Diso...
Source: psychiatry for all - November 4, 2011 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Source Type: blogs

The Mottron Mantra: Autism Is An Advantage Not A Disorder
The DLM5: Dr. Laurent Mottron's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Advantages If you authored or coauthored several journal articles a year over many years, involving high functioning, highly intelligent persons with autism and surrounded yourself with very intelligent, high functioning autistic researchers would they influence your perception of autism? In the case of psychiatrist, and anti-autism cure, anti-ABA activist, Dr. Laurent Mottron, who has published many journal articles involving high functioning autism participants, the answer is yes. Dr. Motton has acknowledged repeatedly th...
Source: Facing Autism in New Brunswick - November 4, 2011 Category: Autism Authors: Autism Reality NB Source Type: blogs

Tell Me.... an Ethical Dilemma
Sam is young man is applying for a summer program, a real resume builder. Among other things, the application asks if he has been treated for a psychiatric disorder. In fact, he's seen a therapist and he's felt anxious at times. His internist gave him some Lexapro samples and he feels better. The symptoms of his problems have been limited to his own subjective distress. His anxiety is not something that has disabled him, in fact he has not missed a day of school in 3 years -- and then for the flu-- he sees his therapist on the weekends, and no one would know he's been uncomfortable unless he t...
Source: Shrink Rap - November 4, 2011 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Dinah Source Type: blogs

Neuropsychology Abstract of the Day: Alzheimer's Disease
CONCLUSIONS:: Mood symptoms appear to impact diverse cognitive realms and to compromise functional performance.PMID: 22048323 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: BrainBlog - November 3, 2011 Category: Neurologists Tags: neuropsychology neurodegenerative assessment dementia testing MMSE Alzheimer Source Type: blogs

Judge Beats His Daughter
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Source: The Last Psychiatrist - November 3, 2011 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Tags: Relationships and Family Source Type: blogs

Models of mental illness
(Picture credit – taken with a tilt shift lens – looks like a model…) It’s widely accepted that individuals can be disturbed or troubled of mind. What is controversial is how we should understand this. Asides psychiatrists, many professional disciplines work and research in the field of mental disorder. Each discipline approaches the subject from their own viewpoint, using their own conceptual model to explain what they find before them. Alas there is no single model that has complete explanatory power. To fully understand an individual’s difficulties it is ofte...
- November 3, 2011 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Frontier Psychiatrist Tags: Educational material Thinking about psychiatry Source Type: blogs

Military Continues to Face Challenges in Mental Health, Suicides
The U.S. military continues to face many challenges when it comes to mental health care for both their active duty personnel in the field, and when soldiers return home to inadequate care. The numbers are staggering. In July 2011, 33 active and reserve component service members died as a result of suicide — a record high month. Additionally, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs estimates 18 veterans die by suicide each and every day. While the military has worked hard to focus on the problem in recent years, the new report released by the Center for a New American Security suggests it still has a long way to go....
Source: World of Psychology - November 3, 2011 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: John M. Grohol, PsyD Tags: General Mental Health and Wellness Military Policy and Advocacy Treatment Active Duty Administration Handbook Alcohol Overdose Behavioral Health Challenges Component Service Department Of Veterans Affairs Duty Troops Face Healt Source Type: blogs

Autism Is Advantageous, According to Researchers
“Recent data and my own personal experience suggest it’s time to start thinking of autism as an advantage in some spheres, not a cross to bear,” says Dr. Laurent Mottron, MD, PhD, a professor at the University of Montreal’s department of Psychiatry and the director of the autism program at Rivière des Prairies Hospital in Montreal. According to his research, individuals with autism have certain qualities and abilities that could be superior to those without it. The study, led by Dr. Mottron at the University of Montreal’s Centre for Excellence in Pervasive Development Disorders and published ...
Source: Genetics and Health - November 3, 2011 Category: Geneticists and Genetics Commentators Authors: Briana Rognlin Tags: FEEL psychology autism health studies Source Type: blogs

6 Facts About Transpersonal Psychology
I don’t remember learning about transpersonal psychology in my clinical psych program. (With all that reading and lack of sleep, it’s also possible I just missed that lesson.) So I was intrigued when I recently came across the term, and decided to do some digging. In the Foreword of The Textbook of Transpersonal Psychiatry and Psychology, writer Ken Wilber defines “transpersonal” as “personal plus.” He explains that transpersonal work integrates both personal psychology and psychiatry but then “adds those deeper or higher aspects of human experience that transcend the ordinary and the average—experi...
Source: World of Psychology - November 3, 2011 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Margarita Tartakovsky, M.S. Tags: General History of Psychology Psychotherapy Spirituality Approaches In Psychology Bodily Experience British Psychological Society Central Emphasis Cognitive Psychology Compassion Continuum Emotional Illness Exact Definition Full Source Type: blogs

@CharitySANE backs the campaign to save a Burton psychiatric unit. #mhuk
http://www.burtonmail.co.uk/News/Patients-are-being-put-at-risk-of-suicide-01112011.htm Filed under: Mental Health News, Interesting Stuff...
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - November 3, 2011 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Dawn Willis Tags: Mental Health News, Interesting Stuff... Source Type: blogs

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Following a thread: Jews, Communists and Jewish Communists at Volokh.
Source: a psychiatrist who learned from veterans - November 3, 2011 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Source Type: blogs

New US study says Chantix raises suicide risks
CHICAGO (REUTERS) - Pfizer's smoking cessation drug, Chantix, carries too many risks and should only be tried when other treatments fail, US researchers said on Wednesday. Chantix was eight times more likely to be linked with a reported case of suicidal behaviour or depression than other nicotine replacement products, such as the nicotine patch, they said. The findings, which Pfizer said were flawed, contradicted two studies released last month by the US Food and Drug Administration that showed Chantix (sold as Champix outside the United States) did not increase the risk of bein...
Source: PharmaGossip - November 3, 2011 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: insider Source Type: blogs

Allegations of fraud and extensive ghostwriting form core of upcoming Texas case against Johnson & Johnson | Alison Bass
On November 28, the Texas Attorney General is expected to begin a landmark trial against Johnson & Johnson on charges that the pharmaceutical giant “subverted scientific integrity” by paying off academic psychiatrists and state officials to boost the use of its atypical antipsychotic Risperdal among children and adults in that state. The case against J&J, for misleading doctors and consumers about the safety and effectiveness of its atypical antipsychotic Risperdal, has been reported before — by 1boringoldman, pharmalot and several Texas newspapers. But a comprehensive report by an expert for the plaintiffs �...
Source: PharmaGossip - November 3, 2011 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: insider Source Type: blogs

Detention
Walking across the hospital grounds I overheard a couple talking as they returned to the ward.He was saying to her how grateful he was that his Consultant Psychiatrist, ". . . had sectioned me that night, getting me into hospital," because he felt, "I right needed to, if I didn't I'd have been pissed and in [a nearby large city] and right violent."The psychiatrist in me thought, how wonderful, he got the right care when acutely unwell and now has insight. But then I also thought, what a shame his Consultant Psychiatrist hasn't heard that and, probably, will never know. I also thought how great it was that he could reflect ...
Source: Lake Cocytus - November 3, 2011 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: The Shrink Source Type: blogs

Vaughan Bell: Living with ambiguity
A doctor receives a letter. A patient explains how a move to a new town last year plunged him into emotional chaos. But a brain scan shows a year-old tumour, damaging the brain’s circuits most heavily involved in emotion. The new boss makes us nervous, we say, after a particularly edgy presentation at work, not realising that we accidentally ordered strongly caffeinated coffee beforehand, rather than our usual decaf. We weave stories around our lives because we think in reasons but often we have little access to the actual causes of our emotions and behaviour. Of all the discoveries in psychology this has been the most...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - November 3, 2011 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Christian Jarrett Source Type: blogs

Emily Holmes: My inner CBT therapist
Imagine you are about to give the "best-(wo)man's" speech at your friend's wedding: vast audience, huge hall, microphone, lights, wine, flowers, expectant faces ... but words fail you. Worse than that, I was consumed with an overwhelming feeling of nausea. I'd just found out I was pregnant and not told the world yet. I could see myself about to vomit at the photographer and over the bridal couple ... looming panic. "I've given hundreds of speeches, it'll be fine". But reassuring words alone didn't help. More nausea. "OK! Stop the internal focus" - my inner CBT therapist suddenly kicked in. "This isn't real - this is just a...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - November 3, 2011 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Christian Jarrett Source Type: blogs

Scott Lilienfeld: the unnatural nature of scientific thinking
One way in which psychology has come to my rescue is by reminding me of a crucial point: scientific thinking does not come naturally to the human species. Much like a foreign language, scientific thinking needs to be taught, mastered, and continually practiced. In many respects, science is “uncommon sense” (as Alan Cromer, Lewis Wolpert, and my Emory colleague bob McCauley have noted) because it requires us to override our natural propensities toward confirmation bias (the tendency to seek out evidence consistent with our hypotheses and to deny, dismiss, or distort evidence that is not), naïve realism (the erroneous b...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - November 3, 2011 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Christian Jarrett Source Type: blogs

Death by Prolonged Shower-Bath
Forbes B. Winslow, M.D., D.C.L. Oxon.In 1857, Forbes Winslow and the editors of the Journal of Psychological Medicine and Mental Pathology took a stand against a quack who caused the death of an indigent psychiatric patient.After the prolonged shower-bath, patients were typically given tartrate of antimony, which made them violently ill. Mr. Snape defended this practice however and even went on to portray himself as a persecuted man ahead of his time. But like all good skeptics, the journal editors demanded to see data documenting the effectiveness of this hideous treatment.In the 19th century, malevolent baths were a stap...
Source: The Neurocritic - November 3, 2011 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: The Neurocritic Source Type: blogs

I Still Don't Need To Talk
Three years ago in a post called I Don't Need to Talk I blogged about the evidence for and against critical incident stress debriefing (CISD) for preventing PTSD. Back then I suggested that CISD should not be mandatory for people who experience trauma for two reasons: most people don't develop PTSD after trauma and get better on their own even without therapy, and there was increasing evidence to suggest that CISD may make some people worse. Today a story came across my Twitter feed (thanks USMCShrink!) about the medical response to the Japanese tsunami. Apparently psychological debriefing was strongly discouraged by Japa...
Source: Shrink Rap - November 3, 2011 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: ClinkShrink Source Type: blogs

The Vicious Cycle of Poverty and Mental Health
There is a vicious, self-reinforcing cycle of poverty associated with mental illness. You become poor. Sometimes through circumstances well beyond your control, such as losing your job, or perhaps because of a pre-existing mental illness or health concerns. So you seek out government assistance to help you through the tough times. But living in poverty for any significant length of time increases all sorts of risk factors for health and mental health problems. You are more stressed, worrying about money constantly, and how you’re going to pay the bills or have enough money to eat. You eat worse because bad, process...
Source: World of Psychology - November 2, 2011 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: John M. Grohol, PsyD Tags: General Happiness Health-related Mental Health and Wellness Policy and Advocacy Violence and Aggression Affordable Housing All Sorts Chris Hudson Circumstances Cycle Of Poverty Entin Government Assistance Health Concerns Health Source Type: blogs

Hearing - huh? what?
Yesterday in marriage counseling, Mark complained about my hearing. Yes, I know he's complained about it for years - how he has to repeat things, how I ask him what people said in movies, on tv, etc. Last year, a teacher singled me out in front of the class and told me to get my hearing checked out, that she thought I had some hearing loss. But I've ignored all of this because I can hear, and what would I even tell a doctor?So now, because we went to counseling, it's become an "actionable item", and I've made an appointment with an ENT for tomorrow. On one hand, I think I just have a lot of built up...
Source: bipolar.and.me - November 2, 2011 Category: Mental Illness Source Type: blogs

Do Genetics Play ANY Role in Causing Autism?
"Autism is linked to different genes in different people, and multiple genes could be involved in each affected person." Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News, November 1, 2011 Do genetics play ANY role in causing autism? The view that autism is caused purely by genetics held sway for many years especially with respect to funding autism research. The "it's gotta be genetic" mindset has seen research dollars dedicated overwhelmingly towards genetic based autism research. Research into possible environmental causes or contributors to autism has been minuscule by comparison. What have those genetic autism ...
Source: Facing Autism in New Brunswick - November 2, 2011 Category: Autism Authors: Autism Reality NB Source Type: blogs

Privacy, Please?
Anon commented on my last blog post about clinical uses for Siri on my new iPhone: "From the details in your contacts, it knows your friends, family, boss, and coworkers. " That was from Apple's web site, regarding Siri. If you are using Siri for clinical purposes, know that Siri tells Apple everything. Siri--usly, how do you protect patient confidentiality if Siri/Apple knows so much? Sure, paper files can be stolen, so can cell phones. E files are vulnerable to all sorts of breaches. But what would you do if your iphone 4S fell into the wrong hands with all that clinical related stuff on it? Not quite the same as aski...
Source: Shrink Rap - November 2, 2011 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Dinah Source Type: blogs

Transcript: Dr. Gary Small on Enhancing Memory and the Brain
Below you can find the full transcript of our engaging Q&A session today on memory, memory techniques and brain-healthy lifestyles with Dr. Gary Small, Director of UCLA’s Memory Clinic and Center on Aging, and author of The Memory Bible. You can learn more about his book Here, and learn more about upcoming Brain Fitness Q&A Sessions Here. Perhaps one of the best questions and answers was: 2:55 Question: Gary, you’ve worked many years in this field. Let us in on the secret. What do YOU do you, personally, to promote your own brain fitness? 2:57 Answer: I try to get at least 30 minutes of aer...
Source: SharpBrains - November 1, 2011 Category: Neurologists Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Author Speaks Series Education & Lifelong Learning Health & Wellness AARP adhd aerobic conditioning Alzheimers-disease Alzheimers-Prevention antioxidant best books biofeedback blood-pressure brain-cells Brain-Fitness brain-fitn Source Type: blogs

Medicare's Orphans: The Fight for Healthcare for Children with Autism Disorders
Medicare's Orphans. from MedicareForAutismNow on Vimeo. Medicare's Orphans – A film about the fight to get healthcare for children with autism in Canada is now online. I encourage everyone with an interest in autism disorders, anyone interested in advocating for treatment and cure for this serious neurological disorder to view this film. I make a few appearances in this film. It was an honor to participate in this effort with each and everyone of those featured. In particular, I had the opportunity a few years ago to meet the Marinoiu family from Toronto. Their son Simon is very similar to my...
Source: Facing Autism in New Brunswick - November 1, 2011 Category: Autism Authors: Autism Reality NB Source Type: blogs

How Does Siri Help the Mental Health Clinician?
Next week, it will be my turn to write our article for the Clinical Psychiatry News website. Over there, we try to have our writing more specifically aimed at an audience of psychiatrists. I'm going to be writing an article on Siri and the Psychiatrist....in honor of my new iPhone 4s and the "personal assistant" function named Siri. Okay, I'm obsessed. Everyday, I find new things it can help me with. Today, I asked it, "What's the meaning of life." What, you don't ask your cell phone the finer existential questions? Siri answered, "All available evidence suggests chocolate."&...
Source: Shrink Rap - November 1, 2011 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Dinah Source Type: blogs

Dr. Scott Monteith: On a New Wonder "Drug" on the Market
I've posted several guest posts by Dr. Scott Monteith, a psychiatrist/informaticist, at Healthcare Renewal.These include the Mar. 2011 post "On 'The Best Compromise' on Physicians and Use of Troublesome Health IT", the Jan. 2011 post "Interesting HIT Testimony to HHS Standards Committee, Jan. 11, 2011, by Dr. Monteith" and the Dec. 2010 post "Meaningful Use and the Devil in the Details: A Reader's View".Here's a new guest post from Dr. Monteith regarding a new "Wonder Drug" on the market:New Drug on the market!This new drug claims to be incredibly effective. It’s very expensive, but the sellers assure us that it’s wort...
Source: Health Care Renewal - October 31, 2011 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Tags: healthcare IT dangers Dr. Scott Monteith Healthcare IT experiment Source Type: blogs

Nose Compass
Ka was investigated by Kadife, the sister of the woman he is foolishly in love with. She drew a pistol and asked him to take off his clothes, piece by piece, and she searched his clothes with her "delicate hands". She was searching for microphones and wires. Her apologies followed. Then it was time to take Ka to meet Blue. Blue hides in a secret place, so their trip to Blue secret lodgment would be highly secretive. I was reading that on my way to arrange some papers in a governmental department in central Baghdad. I was already searched for holding an explosive belt in the entrance to the bus station. As we have learned s...
Source: psychiatry for all - October 31, 2011 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Source Type: blogs

8-Years Depression Sufferer Dismisses His Psychiatrist
Do you find yourself suffering from a persistent empty feeling over a long period of time? Have you struggled with guilt and worthlessness that will not stop? Do you ever fear the past and have constant bleak thoughts about the future? Do you ever feel nervous and afraid you might lose control or go insane? Do you feel utter hopelessness and believe that everything you do will turn into a failure? Thinking about cutting yourself and believe that it will relieve the stres...
Source: My Page - October 31, 2011 Category: Internists and Doctors of Medicine Source Type: blogs

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Was going through the comments on 'Rage of a Privileged Class, TNC, Atlantic, and thought this solved something:There were psychological studies of Nazi war criminals using Rorschach tests and other instruments which don't have obvious face saving answers. The lower level were unimaginative people with a simple view of order and what was proper. Being drug addled would not have been part of that or their behavior. The higher level such as Goering were at least at one time drug addicts but not that simple minded. The fact that Eichmann put on the pose of a banal bureaucrat,Adolf Eichmann was, of course, in no way a banal bu...
Source: a psychiatrist who learned from veterans - October 31, 2011 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Tags: Rosenbaum antisemitism Holocaust Source Type: blogs

Buried Alive!
The pathological fear of being buried alive is called taphophobia1 [from the Greek taphos, or grave]. Being buried alive seems like a fate worse than death, the stuff of nightmares and horror movies and Edgar Allan Poe short stories. What could be pathological about such a fear? When taken to extremes, it can become a morbid, all-consuming obsession. In 1881, psychiatrist Enrico Morselli wrote about "two hitherto undescribed forms of Insanity" (English translation, 2001):As the result of some observations I have made in recent years, I propose to add two new and previously undescribed varieties to the various forms of insa...
Source: The Neurocritic - October 31, 2011 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: The Neurocritic Source Type: blogs

Whether or not they work, they're getting cheaper.
Over on Thought Broadcast, Steve Balt has a nice, disillusioned post about whether clinical psychopharmacology is a pseudoscience. By the end of the post, I was ready to take down my shingle and go home. I liked Steve's graphic so much (the little pill bottle guy juggling those mood stabilizers) that I stole it. On another pharm note, there are several popular medications that have recently gone off-patent or will soon go off-patent, allowing for more competitive pricing as generics become available. Among them, several big-buck psychiatric medications, including Lexapro, Seroquel, Zyprexa,...
Source: Shrink Rap - October 31, 2011 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Dinah Source Type: blogs

Winter arrives 2 months early
It's either the NWO shadow gummint firing up HAARP for some weather warfare on the sheep, god's wrath, or the planet's just plain f.ed and we are with it, but Winter has come to New England 2 months early, with record breaking snows, over 2 feet in some areas of Massachusetts..this truly sucks, but I predicted it 6-9 months ago. the voices in my head tell me things before they happen and they have never been wrong yet. This will be a history making Winter, and not in a good way.Once again I'm up to my eyeballs in medical problems so have not been in a mood to write much, plus the big push for globalization and to stuff eve...
Source: Nightmare Hall - Welcome to my nightmare - October 30, 2011 Category: HIV AIDS Source Type: blogs

Neuropsychology Abstract of the Day: MCI
CONCLUSIONS: The APOE-ε4 allele is associated with a moderately increased risk for progression from MCI to AD-type dementia. The low sensitivity and PPV makes genotyping of limited value for predicting AD-type dementia in clinical practice. For trials aiming to prevent progression from MCI to AD-type dementia, APOE genotyping may be useful in selecting subjects with a higher risk for progression to AD-type dementia.PMID: 21493755 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Source: BrainBlog - October 30, 2011 Category: Neurologists Tags: neuropsychology mci neurodegenerative dementia mild cognitive impairment Alzheimer Source Type: blogs

Paranoid Pyramid
Yesterday a friend invited me to a night tour in Baghdad and to spend some minutes in a new café that you will be served by females. In Baghdad, cafés are still a man zone. Since ages, no female is allowed in Baghdad to sit in a café. So, being in a café that some of the workers are females seems enough privileged to pay it a visit at night and drink a cappuccino even if the price would hit nearly 4 US dollars a cup. My friend told me about a new DVD series that gaining fame in Baghdad, named "The Arrivals". The series is a documentary about how every disaster that occurred to us is programmed by some evil willed secre...
Source: psychiatry for all - October 30, 2011 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Source Type: blogs

American Association for Emergency Psychiatry
URL: http://emergencypsychiatry.org/American Association for Emergency Psychiatry or AAEP is a multidisciplinary organization that serves as the voice of emergency mental health. The membership includes directors of psychiatric emergency services, psychiatrists, nurses, social workers, psychologists, physician assistants, educators and other professionals involved in emergency psychiatry. For: Anyone, Consumers, Researchers, Anyone, Consumers, Anyone, Clinicians, ResearchersTopics: Addiction, Chronic Disease, Foundation Website, Life, Lifestyle, Mental Health, Self-harm and suicide, Common Factors, General Psychology, Heal...
Source: PsychSplash - October 30, 2011 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Psych Central Resource Editor Tags: Anyone Articles Clinical Psychology Clinicians Cognitive Behaviour Therapy Collaborative News Combat Stress Common Factors Community and Social Networking Corrections Counselling Depression Diagnosis Educational Psychology Emot Source Type: blogs

Autism Disorders On the Sidelines of the DSM5 Revolt
Several divisions of the American Psychological Association appear to be revolting against the American Psychiatric Association's DSM5. A petition has been published on line. In DSM5 in Distress Allen Frances, M.D., former chair of the DSM-IV Task Force and currently professor emeritus at Duke, summarizes the conflict between the warring APAs over the DSM5: "Several divisions of the American Psychological Association have just written an open letter highly critical of DSM 5. They are inviting mental health professionals and mental health organizations to sign a petition addressed to the DSM5 Task Force of the A...
Source: Facing Autism in New Brunswick - October 30, 2011 Category: Autism Authors: Autism Reality NB Source Type: blogs

The Plan Will Always Fail Catastrophically
unsee it
Source: The Last Psychiatrist - October 29, 2011 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Tags: Short Stories Source Type: blogs

Tailored Activity Program (TAP) Minimizes Disruptive Behaviors In Dementia Patients and Caregiver Burden
The study furthers previous findings that purposeful activity is a safe, healthy alternative to pharmacological approaches in minimizing disruptive behavioral occurrences associated with dementia, such as agitation and aggressiveness. By Bob DeMarco Alzheimer's Reading Room This is interesting research that I intend to look into in more detail. The findings seem to indicate that this approach could be an alternative to placing Alzheimer's patients into nursing homes or other types of Alzheimer's care facilities. I am particularly interested in any approach that is an alternative to "drugging up" Alzheimer's patients t...
Source: Alzheimer's Reading Room, The - October 29, 2011 Category: Dementia Authors: Bob DeMarco Source Type: blogs

What I Learned Part II
Psychiatry residents on the APA listserv were surveyed about their experiences with social media. 9.7% of residents had gotten friend requests from patients. The remaining residents were asked what they would do if they got such requests. 85% of residents said they would automatically ignore them. 15% said they would discuss the request with the patient, then decline it. Less than 3% of residents received any training about proper social media use in residency. Half admitted googling their patients. One poster presented the results of a one year study of four major media outlets: the New York Times, the LA Times, USA Toda...
Source: Shrink Rap - October 29, 2011 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: ClinkShrink Source Type: blogs

What I Learned Part III
More on social media and medicine today. One survey of a surgery department showed half of residents and faculty had public Facebook accounts and a third posted professional information. People are using "mindfulness" therapy to treat sex offenders. No studies on efficacy. Offenders with bipolar and psychotic disorders are twice as likely to have more than two additional arrests than non- SMI offenders. Some criminal defendants try to claim that the government is a corporation, and that they should be tried under contract law rather than criminal law. This is sometimes called a "straw man defense" and may prompt judges t...
Source: Shrink Rap - October 29, 2011 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: ClinkShrink Source Type: blogs