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• n  the branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders

• In the short dozen years since drug treatment of some mental illnesses was shown to be effective, medical psychiatry (as distinct from the talk-it-out schools) has taken giant .
• The current fashion for pitting psychiatry and religion against each other as though they were mutually exclusive took a beating on last week's Catholic Hour from a brilliant Roman.
• A white list for patients, a black list for their doctors Apart from Pavlov and his dogs, Soviet psychiatry is perhaps best known for the breakthrough discovery of.

• psychopathology
• psychological medicine

News & Articles

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• Cognitive behavior therapy or drugs for patients with depression? A brain scan could tell
  A biomarker could cut the trial-and-error of finding a patient's best therapy. A brain scan could one day help doctors prescribe the best treatment to patients with major depressive disorder. In JAMA Psychiatry on Wednesday, researchers describe how a PET scan can reveal whether a patient will respond better to drugs or cognitive behavior therapy. [...]
  June 14, 2013 - MedCity News
• Down the Wrong Path: Book Details Psychiatry's Lack of Objective Science
  Psychiatry -- which uses well-intentioned coercion, unscientific diagnoses and psychoactive drugs that do as much harm as good -- is a science that is off course, according to a new book co-written by Tomi Gomory, an associate professor in the Florida State University College of Social Work.
  June 12, 2013 - Newswise
• Too many psychiatric diagnoses for children: an epidemic of labels
  Allen Frances, professor of child psychiatry at Duke University and chair of the DSM IV(Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) task force hit the nail on the head in a recent commentary "Why So Many Epidemics of Childhood Mental...        
  June 12, 2013 - Boston Globe

Quotes

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• Tom Cruise in USA Today
  You don't know the history of psychiatry. I do,Cruise said.
• Matt Lauer in China Daily
  As Lauer argued the benefits of anti-depressants, Cruise fired back, "You don't know the history of psychiatry. I do."
• Alan Johnson in netPR.pl (komunikaty prasowe)
  Alan Johnson said: "Doctors from overseas have played an invaluable role in the NHS for many years and will continue to do so. They have helped us fill key shortage areas such as psychiatry, obstetrics and gynaecology, and paediatrics. But as the...