Predicting the productive research psychiatrist

Research of stigmatized conditions: dilemma for the sociocultural psychiatrist.

Over the last 23 years, I have had the privilege of researching several stigmatizing conditions in sociocultural context. These conditions have ranged from alcohol abuse and alcoholism, opium addiction and other dtug abuse, to incest, depression, amok and other homicide, and psychosis in village settings. Groups in which these conditions have been studied have included the Hmong, Lao, and other...

[The psychiatrist and terrorism].

Update on geriatric research in productive aging.

The American Occupational Therapy Association's Centennial Vision articulates the strategic goals for the profession to be science driven and evidence based in major practice areas. In the practice area of productive aging, a previous review of research published in the American Journal of Occupational Therapy (AJOT) found mostly basic research with far fewer effectiveness studies. The current ...

The Responsibility of the Psychiatrist

human relationships, delinquency and the like, date essentially from World War II. Amongst the many valuable lessons learnt by the service psychiatrist during those war years, perhaps the two hardest for him to accept were the dangers of "over-selling" psychiatry; and his role with, and responsibility towards, not only his patient but also the community of which the patient, and the psychiatris...

The Monks and the Psychiatrist

Benedictine prior Father Gregoire Lemercier thought he was going mad. So he called in a psychiatrist. The psychiatrist soon sorted him out. Father Lemercier was most impressed. He considered that the benefits of Freudian analysis should be bestowed upon the other monks. called in a woman psychiatrist, Professor Frida Zmud, to 'confront monks with the problems of sexuality'. *he group therapy se...