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Friday, July 26, 2013

Guest Blogger Simple Citizen on The Suicidal Patient's Right to Have Advance Directives Honored

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Simple Citizen is a psychiatrist reader with his own blog (see our sidebar).  This started as a comment, but I asked to use it as a stand-...
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Monday, July 22, 2013

The Right To Die. Maybe. Sometimes. If You Don't Change Your Mind. Today.

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Great article in the New York Times Magazine, called A Life-or-Death Decision , by Robin Maranz Henig, about an ethicist Peggy Battin, w...
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Thursday, July 18, 2013

WSJ: Paul McHugh Derides DSM5 for Failure to Progress

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Paul McHugh, MD, esteemed past Chair of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins, writes in the criticism from Tom Insel from NIMH. Paul eloquently...
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Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Hunger Strikes, Coercision, and What's New in My Life

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These days, ClinkShrink and I are talking about very different things over on Clinical Psychiatry News. Clink is setting some guidelin...
Monday, July 15, 2013

Guest blogger Dr. Jesse Hellman and the Question of Whether Ralph Rackstraw was Certifiable

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  O wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us! These lines are from Scottish poet Robert Burns. He could well ha...
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Sunday, July 14, 2013

Fat and at Fault?

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  In psychiatry, we are sensitive to issues of stigma.  It's no longer cool to openly discuss disdain for people who belong to other...
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Thursday, July 04, 2013

Practice "Safe Stress"

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The Stress Doc from fraser fraze on Vimeo . Our last guest blogger, Dr. Moto-Castillo sent this to me.  Oy, is it bad.  But perhaps wo...
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Friday, June 28, 2013

Guest blogger Dr. Manuel Mota-Castillo on the overdiagnosis of ADHD

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We don't shy away from controversy here at Shrink Rap, and today, child psychiatrist Dr. Mota-Castillo joins us to...
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Thursday, June 27, 2013

More Suicide Articles

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I like it when I know celebrities, it makes me feel important.  So imagine how excited I was when I went to my Epic personalization ses...
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Monday, June 24, 2013

Duck and her Little Ducklings

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Get your ducks in a row from C Peter Clough on Vimeo . No psychiatry today, just ducks.  They were last seen by the local tavern.
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Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Cue The Black Helicopters

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I don't want to cut short any discussion on my last couple involuntary treatment posts, but I wanted to let people know we've got...
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Tuesday, June 18, 2013

What Would You Do? What Would You Want?

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Courtesy of CNN, here are a couple real-life scenarios I thought I'd share with you. Both of these videos represent the kind of cases t...
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Sunday, June 16, 2013

Happy Father's Day and Please Take Care of Yourself

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First, I want to wish a happy Father's Day to all those celebrating today. Next, I want to wish a happy Father's Day to my husb...
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Saturday, June 15, 2013

Shrinky Stuff Around the Web

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Today, I'm just going to point out some links by others who are talking about the same types of things we've been talking about ...
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Tuesday, June 11, 2013

HIP HIP HIPAA HOORAY! Where's My Medical Privacy?

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And whatsoever I shall see or hear in the course of my profession, as well as outside my profession in my intercourse with men, if it b...
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