The department offers a four-year training program approved by the Residency Review Committee of the American Medical Association. Training experiences are available at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics and at the Iowa City VA Health Care System. Additional experiences are available at affiliated institutions: Broadlawns Medical Center in Des Moines, the Iowa Medical and Classification C...

Contemporary psychiatry uses a variety of complementary approaches which enrich one another. In this paper, we describe the development of a brief psychodynamic approach for hospitalized patients with major depression, as well as the recent commercialization of an atypical neuroleptic depot medication. In addition, we discuss electro-convulsotherapy which, despite it has been widely and underst...

The novelties in clinical psychiatry are close to somatic medicine adaptation. The clinical staging concept in psychiatry (as in cancerology) is the result of an early intervention strategy in psychotic disorders. A differentiated mode of understanding of the phases of psychiatric disorders allows a prevention oriented approach. Individualized therapeutic programmes in accordance with specific ...

most obsessive-compulsive disorder (ocd) patients meet psychiatrists 5 to 10 years after onset of ocd .its relatively high prevalence ratio and the delay in seeking help suggest that patients with ocd may seek help at non-psychiatric clinics. the present study was undertaken to provide some epidemiological data on the prevalence and severity of ocd in dermatological patients. the participants i...

the high comorbidity of medical and psychiatric diagnoses in the general hospital population requires collaboration between various medical fields to provide comprehensive health care. this study aims to find the rate of psychiatric consultations, their timing and overall diagnostic trend in comparison to previous studies. tehran university of medical sciences has got an active psychiatric cons...

appearing a new field of psychiatry called social psychiatry and its applied field , community psychiatry , the attentions have been drawn toward socio- cultural factors in determining different pathologies and even some theories have been stated. psychiatric symptoms are considered as deviation from social norms and being mental patient is viewed as a social role. severe mental disorders are e...

The field of forensic psychiatry implies a distinction between it and other areas of psychiatry. Whether this field can be so clearly staked out as to be delineated as a subspecialty of psychiatry is the subject of this brief paper. I propose (1) to examine the question of whether it is justified to speak of forensic psychiatry as a subspecialty; (2) to explore the definition of forensic psychi...

Razi Psychiatry Hospital is one of the most important clinical and educational fields with respect to mental health in Iran. It has a long record of service in this regard since the last century. This piece of writing aims to make a concise acquaintance with its different goals, committees, departments, activities and investigational efforts.