Mind: âHave You Ever Been in Psychotherapy, Doctor?â
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A curious thing happened to one of my psychiatric residents not long ago. One of his patients caught him off guard with a challenging question: âHave you ever been in psychotherapy yourself?â
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Often, patientsâ âhave you ever ...â questions are less a therapeutic riddle to be solved than an expression of genuine skepticism that they can indeed be helped.
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A recent article on "Cosmetic Neurology" brings to mind a question: How can you compare a nose job to a change in intellect?
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A man who shot a former priest made wild claims to doctors, meaning he either had severe psychotic symptoms or was trying to fake them, a psychiatrist testified Tuesday.
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There are some questions    that have curdled the brains of hominids ever since they developed the power    to ponder. Questions like &quot;what is the nature of evil?&quot; or &quot;what    caused the Cambrian explosion?&quot; not to mention Freud's famous stumper,    &quot;what does a woman want?&quot;
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Printed in PHS #21, 1998. My grandmother always warned me not to trust doctors. And this was odd, because my grandmother was a doctor.
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Being crazy is hard, but it's worth the effort. Especially if you're a cop, paramedic, or social worker who may someday need to deal with a person having a psychotic episode.
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Murat Emre, MD, Dag Aarsland, MD, Ph.D., Alberto Albanese, MD, E. Jane Byrne, FRCPsych., MB, Ch.B., GÃ¼nther Deuschl, MD, Peter P. De Deyn, MD, Ph.
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Experts pinpoint a brain part that may hold the key to recognising places we have been.
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Doctors aim to uncover what causes one of the most common mental health problems - social anxiety disorder.
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Adults with mental disorders have higher odds of being diagnosed with brain tumors and lung cancer and develop these cancers at younger ages than individuals without mental illness, according to a study published in the current issue of Psychosomatic
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One doctor discusses an antidepressant's surprising side effect for a female patient.
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Well, in a manner of speaking, yes. Researchers use a brain scan that lets them identify your intentions before you actually do anything. By the Associated Press.
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BEIJING -- Step back, Confucius. Move over, Mao. Dr. Freud is making the rounds. Once vilified by the communists as a remnant of bourgeois imperialism, the practice of psychology -- and especially the Western ritual of going to a therapist -- is gaining popularity in this country of budding capitalists.
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So, you think you're stressed? Get a load of this dream I had last week. In my waking hours, I thought I was getting along just fine, despite an abnormally heavy workload (lots of assignments -- including this article -- due at once) and the daily travails of a work-at-home mother of two. But I knew it was time to reassess when I woke, panting, from a nightmare in which: ...
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I plead guilty to past transgressions. So, call me a hypocrite if you will. I don't care anymore. I refuse to get stuck in the past because the present and the near future is fun. Indulge if you will in recurrent and persistent thoughts, impulses, or images experienced as intrusive and distressing. The obsession with Microsoft in Open Software communities is excessive and unreasonable and a product of the mind. My only hope is that such thoughts, impulses, and, or images can be expunged by logic or reasoning, which is contrary to the notions in the psychiatric community. read more
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The stories seem strange but riveting. A heart attack victim recalls floating in the air, watching paramedics revive him. A surgical patient remembers hovering, watching the doctors operate. Such widely reported out-of-body experiences have long been the territory of theology, philosophy and scary movies. Now scientists have turned their attention to the topic.