Psychiatry

The article on ‘Women and Psychiatry’ on the Science Museum website is informative however, the article has flaws. The purpose of the essay is to encapsulate the article and to guide us through its strengths and weaknesses. In the first part of the article, given the title ‘Victorian Women and the Reform of Asylum’ we come to terms with the social expectations of a Victorian woman. Furthermore, we infer that society was conscious of the behaviours of women and anything that crossed the guidelines

When doing research I found that Benjamin Rush was the father of the American Psychiatry from 1745 to 1813. Rush claimed that “the cause of madness is seated primarily in the blood vessels of the brain” and that mental derangement occurs because the brain is “overcharged” with blood. Also, I researched that Rush had a “Negritude”. In 1797, Rush declared that blacks suffered from a disease called negritude. This he claimed derived from leprosy and caused the skin to be dark and that segregation would

Psychiatry really came to the forefront of my interests during my time in medical school. The reactions of the majority of Indians towards mental illness ranged from ignoring it, to coming up with spiritual explanations.Neither range of the spectrum involved getting people actual medical or therapeutic help, and usually ended up with them being abused or abandoned. My choice was strengthened when I came back to Canada and had a courtside seat to the stigmatization faced by my cousin when he was diagnosed

The Reputation of Psychiatry in the First Half of the Twentieth Century 1.) The citation for this article is: Schmiedebach, H. (2011). The reputation of psychiatry in the first half of the twentieth century. European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience,261, 192-6. doi:http://0-dx.doi.org.uafs.iii.com/10.1007/s00406-011-0247-x 2.) This article does not include a biographical information on the author; however, Hienz-Peter Schmiedebach attended the University of Hamburg. Throughout

Abstract This paper provides an overview of the study conducted by A.J Macdonald (1994) on Brief therapy in adult psychiatry. With thorough analysis, it expresses concerns about the structure and lack of focus in controlling the research. It outlines strengths and limitations within its core assumptions to the research model in the context of the findings and the outcome of the research. Through considering multiculturalism, family socioeconomic status and other extraneous variables, it will lead

Review of Psychiatry - A Social Stigma! By Dr. Harsha Gopisetty   News paper headlines stating ‘Death of 25 mentally-ill patients, charred beyond recognition, in a devastating fire which engulfed their thatched hostel, pathetically chained to their cots in Ervadi Mental Hospital in Tamil Nadu' and on the other extreme 'States like Haryana do not have a mental hospital' is very revealing of the neglected state of approach to the mentally ill in India. One wonders! Why it is so? When all

Lauren Slater’s, On Being Sane in Insane Places, takes the reader on a journey showing how psychiatry has changed since the 1970’s. David Rosenhan’s experiment of whether psychiatrists could accurately diagnose mental stability was the catalyst for her own experiment. Her quest to see if Rosenhan’s experiment can be duplicated, clearly shows her mental stability is questionable. I believe the psychiatrists in her experiment may have accurately diagnosed her. In the original experiment by David Rosenhan

Website #1: http://behaviorismandmentalhealth.com/ The first website I looked at is run by a licensed psychologist named Philip Hickey. His site claims to be “an alternative perspective on psychiatry 's so-called mental disorders.” He uses this site to criticize the APA and all psychiatric practices. This website doesn’t exactly present a pseudoscientific treatment or cure because Hickey believes that mental illnesses do not exist and therefore do not require treatment. I think that a licensed

current topics in field of psychiatry. In addition, briefly introduce the field, specializations, and my interests within the field of psychiatry as requested by J. Coenen. Psychiatry is a field that involves the study, diagnosis, and treatment of emotional, mental, and addictive disorders. Within this field there are many different specialties, such as addiction psychiatry, mental psychiatry, child and adolescent psychiatry, forensic psychiatry, geriatric psychiatry, and others. I am particularly

observational records of individual babies and children. It was these baby biographies that helped pave the way for the objective and analytic research that child and adolescent psychiatrists and psychologists are known for today. The science of child psychiatry is a multidisciplinary study of the aspects of growth, ranging from birth to adulthood, and focuses on physical, emotional, mental and social development. These specialized psychiatrists diagnose and treat problems dealing with disorders of thinking