MIND-BODY INTERACTIONS IN PATIENTS WITH A CANCER DIAGNOSIS.
The age-old split of mind and body may be gradually closing as general medicine is becoming aware of the impact of stress and emotions on health and disease.
WHAT THE INITIAL PSYCHIATRIC EVALUATION LOOKS LIKE
Many patients, when they first set up an initial appointment, are mystified as to what will happen in the first session. That initial session looks very similar to the way a visit to a general physician might be structured.
On assisted suicide.
This topic has been debated, at times hotly, over 10 to 20 years or longer. There are ethical and philosophical questions tied up with this topic and people are either against or in favor of it, depending on which side of the fence they are sitting. It is beyond question that if one is in the situation that is appearing hopeless that one wants to get out, with assisted suicide as one of the frontline options.
The loss of the psychotherapy
Psychotherapy is now being practiced less and less since psychiatry has abandoned this treatment method in favor of medication management. We have seen this phenomenon before when a new form of treatment was discovered.
Seattle Has Figured Out How to End the War on Drugs
SEATTLE — On gritty streets where heroin, fentanyl and meth stride like Death Eaters, where for decades both drugs and