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Saturday, May 16, 2015

Shrink Rappers at the American Psychiatric Association's Annual Meeting in Toronto, May 2015

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A APA starts today and I'm updating the list of talks we'll be giving.  Roy is already in Toronto for the APA assembly.  We will  ...
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Thursday, May 14, 2015

Per Twitter: Dear Dr. Lieberman and others.....

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  Oh my. So over on my Twitter account, I tweeted a tweet that has now been favorited, retweeted, mentioned, ?distorted, and tagged such ...
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Tuesday, May 12, 2015

Writing about Patients -- or Not

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Novelist and psychoanalyst Lisa Gornick has an article in today's NYTime Opinionator, Why I Never Write About My Patients .  She talks ...
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Tuesday, April 28, 2015

Some thoughts on Authority and Victimization

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This is our blog, and it's my place to vent some, and on this beautiful morning in Baltimore with all the trees in bloom in pink and ...
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Monday, April 27, 2015

Involuntary Commitment and Suicide: Looking for Stories

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As our regular readers know, we are working on a book called --at this moment in time-- Committed: The Battle Over Forced Psychiatric Care ...
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Tuesday, April 21, 2015

The 29th Annual Mood Disorder Symposium at Johns Hopkins

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Today I went to the 29th Annual Mood Disorders Symposium: Back to the Basics.  I somehow have missed the first 28, but this one was reall...
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Thursday, April 09, 2015

Out of Network Care : Why?

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I'm still thinking about what I'm going to say in my talk about value in psychiatry from the patients' perspective. It seem...
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Wednesday, April 08, 2015

Do You Google Your Psychiatrist?

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In psychoanalysis, one of the important principals is that they analyst is a so-called 'blank screen' for the patient to project...
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Tuesday, April 07, 2015

Responses to a Short Survey on Inpatient Psychiatry

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147 responses Summary Was being treated on a psychiatric unit helpful to you? Yes, I was better at discharge 57 38.8% No, I...
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Monday, March 30, 2015

What Adds Value to Mental Health Care? Looking for Your input....

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I need  your help.  This year at the American Psychiatric Association's annual meeting in Toronto, I will be talking on what adds ...
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Sunday, March 29, 2015

"Mental illness" is not the Endpoint Answer to Why Someone Commits Mass Murder

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Over on Clinical Psychiatry News , I wrote a an article about still-unfolding story of the Germanwings co-pilot who deliberately cras...
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Saturday, March 28, 2015

Resilience: Two Sisters, Mental Illness, A Trust Fun and Quite the Ride

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Resilience: Two Sisters and a Story of Mental Illness is a memoir written by Jessie Close with journalist/advocate Pete Earley, plus a ...
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Sunday, March 15, 2015

How Was Your Stay in a Psychiatric Hospital? -- Please Take My Survey: 5 quick questions

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I'd like to tell you something.  The comments we get on this blog, especially lately,  talk about how horrible it is to be treated in...
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Thursday, March 12, 2015

How Psychiatrists Spend Their Time and Why the Agency Demands Contribute to the Shrink Shortage

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Over on Clinical Psychiatry News this week, I wrote an article called Addressing the Psychiatrist Shortage: What Keeps us from seeing Mor...
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Tuesday, March 10, 2015

Responding to the reaction to Are There Ways To Lessen The Violation That People Feel After Psychiatric Hospitalizations? Polarized responses!

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I saw the Mad in America article about my post on Are There Ways To Lessen The Violation That People Feel After Psychiatric Hospitaliz...