Predictions for psychiatry

Publication of Iranian Textbook for Psychiatry

Who Needs Psychiatry, Who Cares for Psychiatry ?

Sir, I was happy till recently about many progressive activities of our profession through out the country. For example, experiments done to develop community based psychiatric services; brain storming sessions conducted to strengthen the undergraduate psychiatric education. But today, I sit downcast, sharing the profession's collective guilt and responsibility for the recent fate suffered by t...

publication of iranian textbook for psychiatry

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Two Cheers for Psychiatry

Critics within psychiatry suggest that too many people are being classified as 'ill' and in need of treatment. Are psychiatrists casting their nets too wide and is society too psychiatry conscious?

Psychiatry in Former Socialist Countries: Implications for North Korean Psychiatry

Very little information is available regarding psychiatry in North Korea, which is based on the legacy of Soviet psychiatry. This paper reviews the characteristics of psychiatry in former socialist countries and discusses its implications for North Korean psychiatry. Under socialism, psychiatric disorders were attributed primarily to neurophysiologic or neurobiological origins. Psychosocial or ...