OBJECTIVE This study compares the views of psychiatry residency training directors about psychiatry and mental health training in the primary care programs in their institutions with those of the primary care residency training directors. METHODS A 16-item questionnaire surveying specific areas of training and perceived adequacy of current teaching was distributed to 1,544 U.S. primary care a...

Critics of psychiatry (or “anti-psychiatrists”) such as philosopher Michel Foucault, sociologist Erving Goffman and physician Ronald David Laing tend to view a form social control, one the state institutions oppression. The concept “norm” in relation mental health is understood culturally conditioned. Psychiatry used isolate “stigmatise” carriers non-normative rationality, individuals with diff...

1Head of Psychiatry Service Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal Madrid, Spain Catedrático de Psiquiatría Universidad de Alcalá de Henares Spain 2Head Professor of Pharmacology Neurosciences Department Universidad de Cádiz, Spain 3Head of Psychiatry Service Hospital Santiago Vitoria, Spain Head Professor of Psychiatry Universidad del País Vasco 4Head Professor of Psychiatry Universidad de Ovied...

The mass media has a powerful impact on public attitudes about mental health and psychiatry. The question of identity of psychiatry as a medical profession as well as of the future of psychiatry has been the subject of much controversial discussion. Psychiatry today has the historical opportunity to shape the future of mental health care, medicine and society. It has gained in scientific and pr...

OBJECTIVE To examine factors influencing the choice of psychiatry as a career between residency program application and ranking decision making. METHODS Using an online questionnaire, applicants to the largest Canadian psychiatry residency program were surveyed about the impact of various factors on their ultimate decision to enter psychiatry residency training. RESULTS Applicants reported ...

Introduction The attitude of Non Psychiatry Doctors (NPD’s) and Non psychiatry Post Graduate Residents (NPPG’s) towards Psychiatry is crucially important because of its influence on impressionable medical students and the large number of psychiatric patients who present to Non Psychiatry Doctors like General Practitioners. Since the data on the attitude of NPD’s and NPPG’s to psychiatry in Indi...