Introduction: There is a shortage of psychiatric providers trained to work in community settings with people serious mental illness (SMI) and associated comorbidities. We designed an innovative psychiatry rotation curriculum for residents other learners.

The 1960s and 1970s were a time of substantial changes in approaches to involuntary hospitalization and treatment in the United States, a process that was also reflected elsewhere in the world. Objections to the use of coercion in psychiatry became widespread, rooted in concerns about the reality of mental illnesses, the effects of institutional treatment, financial considerations, and growing ...

INTRODUCTION Malignant Narcissism has been recognized as a serious condition but it has been largely ignored in psychiatric literature and research. In order to bring this subject to the attention of mental health professionals, this paper presents a contemporary synthesis of the biopsychosocial dynamics and recommendations for treatment of Malignant Narcissism. METHODS We reviewed the litera...

This is the first study in Australia to test definitions of various types of 'episodes of care'. The definitions reported here are those used in the 1996 National Sub-Acute and Non-Acute Patient (SNAP) Casemix Classification Study. The study collected data on a total of 683 patients at 10 hospitals and 2 community health services providing a range of rehabilitation, aged care and community care...

Neuropsychiatric disorders account for 5 of the 10 most disabling medical disorders worldwide, 1 and for a particularly large component of the burden of disease in South Africa. 2 Unfortunately, as elsewhere, training and services in psychiatry have lagged behind those of other major disciplines, and much additional work is needed to achieve parity. We focus in particular on the status of psych...

In the Sixties and Seveniies child psychiatry expanded very rapidly in the West. Inpatient, outpatient and community services of all kinds were c>tab-lished and there was a parallel increase in staff, particularly psychiatrists, psychologists , social workers and nurses. A clue to this burgeoning is seen in the numbers of consultant child psychiatrists working in the British National Health Ser...

In recent decades, historians of English psychiatry have shifted their major concerns away from asylums and psychiatrists in the nineteenth century. This is also seen in the studies of twentieth-century psychiatry where historians have debated the rise of psychology, eugenics and community care. This shift in interest, however, does not indicate that English psychiatrists became passive and uni...

Comments on: Efficacy versus Effectiveness of Buprenorphine and Methadone Maintenance in Pregnancy Hendrée E. Jones PhD a , Sarah H. Heil PhD b , Karol Kaltenbach PhD c , Susan M. Stine PhD d , Mara G. Coyle MD e , Amelia M. Arria PhD f , Kevin E. O’Grady PhD g , Peter Selby MBBS h & Peter R. Martin MD i a RTI International, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA, and The Departments of Ps...