E’VE been seeing the patient regularly for the past five years. For the sake of W anonymity, we will call him Psi. His problem as initially presented to us was a chronic inability to use his full potential in his work. Particularly, he showed an inability to learn by his past mistakes. He would make the same errors time and time again. It appeared that he couldn’t remember what caused him to be...

BACKGROUND We studied the relationships among psychiatrist supply, practice patterns, and access to psychiatrists in Ontario Local Health Integration Networks (LHINs) with differing levels of psychiatrist supply. METHODS We analyzed practice patterns of full-time psychiatrists (n = 1379) and postdischarge care to patients who had been admitted to hospital for psychiatric care, according to LH...

Alan A. Stone, MD has delineated clearly the areas of ethical conflict for the forensic psychiatrist. He focuses primarily on issues of criminal law and psychiatry and the forensic psychiatrist as double agent. However, he also alludes to the four issues concerning ethical boundaries of forensic psychiatry. His first concern is whether psychiatry has anything true to say that the courts should ...

In the interwar period the eugenic ideas gained the status of a scientific theory and become attractive to a wide range of physicians. Among them were doctors of Jewish origin who perceived eugenics as a tool in the fight for biological rebirth of the Jewish nation. Polish-Jewish psychiatrist Raphael Becker (1891-1939?), the author of dozens of scientific papers, was the most famous eugenist am...

Benedictine prior Father Gregoire Lemercier thought he was going mad. So he called in a psychiatrist. The psychiatrist soon sorted him out. Father Lemercier was most impressed. He considered that the benefits of Freudian analysis should be bestowed upon the other monks. called in a woman psychiatrist, Professor Frida Zmud, to 'confront monks with the problems of sexuality'. *he group therapy se...

1 Psychiatrist. Associate professor, School of Medicine, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil. Chief, Psychiatry and Medical Psychology Service, Hospital Universitário Clementino Fraga Filho, UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil. 2 Psychiatrist. MSc in Public Health, PhD in Health Sciences. Coordinator, Psychiatric Clinic, Instituto de Previdência dos Servidores...

branches of medicine. WVe can no loniger afford to lead an isolated existence, but must recognise that there is as great a job to be done extramurally , by publicity and by action, as well as within the walls of the mental hospitals. TrHs is one of the most useful little reference books that the G.P. could carry with him. It is truly pocket size, measuring 41 inches by 2j inches. The fourteenth...

SUMMARY A wide variety of neurological conditions may present first to a psychiatrist and it is important be aware these in differential diagnosis. careful history, examination broad diagnosis can help set up an appropriate management plan – with room change if things unexpected ways. In this article we explore common ground shared by psychiatry neurology show how incorporation knowledge improv...