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An expert on the history of mental illness says the psychiatric profession must 'stop pretending that chemistry is the sole and singular way forward.' Q&A: He's studied mental illness for 50 years ...
Dozens of Russians are being subjected to compulsory psychiatric treatment because of their political views, according to lawyers and human rights groups - a trend they say has gathered pace since ...
Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry's Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness by sociologist Andrew Scull is a critical history of two hundred years of treatment of mental disorders in the United States. From the "birth of the asylum" in the 1830s to the drug trials and genetic studies of the 2000s, Scull catalogues efforts by psychoanalysts ...
However, the total number of state psychiatric beds in Iowa did drop nearly 80% between 2010 and 2016, when totals fell from 149 to 64, according to the Treatment Advocacy Center. In 2007, Iowa ...
Psychology Today was founded in 1967 [6] by Nicolas Charney. The goal of the publication is to make psychology literature accessible to the general public. Psychology Today features reportage and information that looks inward at the workings of the brain and bonds between people.
Astral Codex Ten (ACX), formerly Slate Star Codex (SSC), is a blog focused on science, medicine (especially psychiatry), philosophy, politics, and futurism.The blog is written by Scott Alexander Siskind, [1] a San Francisco Bay Area psychiatrist, [2] under the pen name Scott Alexander.
Eustasis Psychiatry and Addiction Health, pictured here on Sept. 4, 2024, at 3600 S. National Avenue, was founded in 2018 by Dr. Alok Jain and Alisha Breanna Jain.
But just 31 percent of the 7,745 doctors in those areas are certified to treat the legal limit of 100 patients. Even in Vermont, where the governor in 2014 signed several bills adding $6.8 million in additional funding for medication-assisted treatment programs, only 28 percent or just 60 doctors are certified at the 100-patient level.