Polarization of biological and psychosocial aspects of psychiatry determines the artificial division of the "biological" psychiatrists and psychiatrists "psychotherapists". This division resulted from a certain dose of mystification of the psychotherapeutic work of those practicing, and fear of psychological determinism of the functioning, of those who are looking for answers in the biological ...

M students’ and physicians’ training is oriented toward rapid retrieval of information and the development of those clinical skills needed to make immediate interventions. Medical students’ education in the area of psychiatry is usually limited to a sixto eight-week rotation, where they are most often exposed to a view of mental function as a simple epiphenomenon of the activity of neurotransmi...

As the support for trauma-informed approaches and awareness of power imbalances within caring relationship are increased, this article proposes that it is time to revisit issue team dynamics their potential impact on responses individuals with complex emotional needs. Considered through dual lens psychodynamic theory complexity, using role psychiatric liaison nurse illustrate points made, argue...

In Edgar Allan Poe’s short story, “The Imp of the Perverse” (1845), narrator/protagonist gives us his account how he commits a murder, but does not provide fully defined, convincing reason for vile action. He speaks like commonsensical man when philosophizes on “perversity” in clinically distanced tone voice. makes inferences and highlights implications concerning perversity. With same voice, a...

Introduction Feeding plays a very important role in our lives. First of all survival, but general it has much wider and social role. Through feeding, addition to satisfying life’s needs basic instincts, we experience sense satisfaction through the investment libido. Anorexia nervosa obesity as two extremes eating disorders can be considered disturbed eating, background there is usually weak, fr...

Epidemiologic studies of the effects of religion on blood pressure suggest that religious commitment is inversely associated with blood pressure and that several religious denominations or groups have relatively low rates of hypertension-related morbidity and mortality. In this review, we examine the implication that certain characteristics and functions of religion account for this association...

For several years I have been studying the effects of a brief psychodynamic coaching intervention on senior executives at a leading business school. It became evident that people undergoing this intervention often made profound changes in either their professional or personal lives, sometimes both. Change is not something we do easily or willingly, yet the striking rate of positive change withi...

This paper provides a historical, religious-philosophical context for the study of the Daoist text known as The Secret of the Golden Flower. An updated study is conducted into the controversy over the source of the text including the editions translated by Richard Wilhelm and Thomas Cleary. The main teachings of the text and the basics of two major denominations of Daoism are introduced to grou...

The clinical case presented herein addresses the following 2 key issues: (1) the meaning and consequences of bypassing a major symptom or syndrome in a patient’s treatment to facilitate development and growth in other dimensions of her life that were being hindered due to their interrelations with the symptom; and (2) the therapeutic impact of incorporating strategic, cognitive, and behavioral ...