Two hospitals, College Hospitals in Cerritos and Costa Mesa, California, have agreed to pay $1.6 million to settle a lawsuit alleging them of dumping homeless psychiatric patients instead of treating and discharging them properly.  The …

The families of many children injured or sickened by the antipsychotic drugs they’d been prescribed are calling for the testimony of a prominent child psychiatrist whose endorsement of such drugs led to a 40-fold (4,000%) …

The American Psychological Association (APA) gauges the emotional health of the country with an annual survey and its latest, the 2008 Stress in America survey, reveals the level of stress in the nation skyrocketing right …

Children in the United States take psychotropic medications at a rate three or more times higher than their counterparts in Europe, according to a multi-national study recently conducted on children in the US, Germany, and …

After more than a decade of lobbying for equal coverage for mental health treatments in health care plans, both the US Senate and the House of Representatives approved a bill yesterday that makes coverage for …

Has the pharmaceutical industry become the Pied Piper of Hamelin–ridding us of lethal diseases only to turn around and “take” our children?

According to recently released information, the soaring rate of obesity in 6- to 11-year-old American children has tripled in just 30 years.  Alongside that dangerous rise in weight that threatens our nation’s children, a growing …

Why do People ?
The most appropriate answer to that question is probably the reply given by President Clinton when asked why he did what he did with “that woman.” “Because I could,” he replied …

Every now and then The HEADoc finds himself in an undesirable inescapable situation. . .

Sigmund Freud was named the Father of Psychoanalysis. . .
He coined a term known as transference and its counterpart. This principle of thought and behavior is common to the psycho dynamics of basic human relationships …