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Sir Simon Charles Wessely FMedSci FRS (born 23 December 1956) is a British psychiatrist.He is Regius Professor of Psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London and head of its department of psychological medicine, vice dean for academic psychiatry, teaching and training at the Institute of Psychiatry, as well as Director of the King's Centre for Military Health Research.
James Robertson was born in Rutherglen, Scotland, and grew up in a working-class, close-knit loving family where children were cuddled, loved and protected. [1] He intrinsically understood that children needed their mother and was sensitive to pain due to separation. [1]
According to the most recent figures from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there are now more than twice as many suicides in the U.S. (45,000) as homicides; they are the 10th leading cause of death. You have to go all the way back to the dawn of the Great Depression to find a similar increase in the suicide rate.
Major depression significantly affects a person's family and personal relationships, work or school life, sleeping and eating habits, and general health. [27] Family and friends may notice agitation or lethargy. [20] Older depressed people may have cognitive symptoms of recent onset, such as forgetfulness, [28] and a more noticeable slowing of ...
John Snow (15 March 1813 – 16 June 1858 [1]) was an English physician and a leader in the development of anaesthesia and medical hygiene.He is considered one of the founders of modern epidemiology and early germ theory, in part because of his work in tracing the source of a cholera outbreak in London's Soho, which he identified as a particular public water pump.
There’s no single explanation for why addiction treatment is mired in a kind of scientific dark age, why addicts are denied the help that modern medicine can offer. Family doctors tend to see addicts as a nuisance or a liability and don’t want them crowding their waiting rooms. In American culture, self-help runs deep.
A psychiatrist is a physician who specializes in psychiatry. [1] Psychiatrists are physicians who evaluate patients to determine whether their symptoms are the result of a physical illness, a combination of physical and mental ailments or strictly mental issues.
The words he used were “rude,” “overbearing,” “not being completely honest with us,” describing Meier as having a “his-way-or-the-highway“ attitude and “manic-depressive ...