Articles in Psychiatry
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 hospitals will pay $400,000 in…
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%) increase in diagnoses of pediatric…
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 alongside our nation’s mounting financial…
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 the Netherlands. In Europe, the…
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 mental health on par with…
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 number of these children also…
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 to a probing reporter. I started posting…
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 and encounters and can be either a…
My cat has lost her mind . . .
and I have no training in feline psychology. She’s 3 years old now. What’s that in human years, 16? Erroneously I thought I could keep her locked indoors and avoid having her fixed.…
This has been one of the weirdest weeks in my life. . .
as far as the thoughts and feelings I have experienced. The predominant feeling has probably been fear and I know that if there were no fear at this…
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced today that some “conventional” antipsychotic prescription drugs must now carry a black box warning label just like the one that has come on newer antipsychotic drug labels since an FDA order in…
According to the June 9, 2008 issue of the Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, one in ten teenage girls either binge eats or purges at least once a week. The incidence of purging was highest among younger adolescent girls.…
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