Quotes About Psychiatry

The psychiatrists—Eric was among the youngest—often put these kids on Haldol; more than one came to me exhibiting, as a result of the mysterious pill, "tardive dyskinesia"—involuntarily sticking out their tongues, clenching and unclenching their jaws, smacking their lips.)

I first wanted to be a psychiatrist. I decided against that in medical school when I discovered that psychiatrists didn't, in reality, do what they did on TV.

Benjamin James Sadock

Clonazepam has been shown to be an effective treatment for social phobia. In addition, several other benzodiazepines (e.g., diazepam) have been used as adjunctive medications for treatment of social phobia.

Chronic catatonia does not respond as well to benzodiazepines. The definitive treatment for catatonia is electroconvulsive therapy.

frequently associated with bipolar disorder than with schizophrenia

High-potency benzodiazepines, especially triazolam, can cause anterograde amnesia. A paradoxical increase in aggression has been reported in persons with preexisting brain damage.

which may include depression, paranoia, delirium, and seizures.

Alprazolam seems to be particularly associated with an immediate and severe withdrawal syndrome and should be tapered gradually.

Benjamin James Sadock

The combination of benzodiazepines and clozapine (Clozaril) has been reported to cause delirium

The manufacturer of nefazodone recommends that the dosage of triazolam be lowered by 75 percent and the dosage of alprazolam be lowered by 50 percent when given concomitantly with nefazodone.

The current approach that psychiatry takes almost ignores social worlds in which mental health problems arise and tries to become highly biomedical like other branches of medicine such as cardiology or oncology. But psychiatry has to be far more embedded in people's personal and social worlds.

I talk to a shrink. I actually enjoy it, but it costs too much money - it's like £250 a session! It's good though, the whole nation should be on it.

Analizând preocup?rile de ast?zi pentru practicarea fitnessului, f?r? îndoial? c? un psihiatru de la jum?tatea secolului al XX-lea ar g?si numeroase motive s? suspecteze o gam? larg? de tulbur?ri mintale - masochism, narcisism, tulburare obsesiv-compulsiv? - fiecare dintre acestea putând semnala necesitatea unei intervenÈ›ii medicale.

The fields of psychology and psychiatry have also inadvertently contributed to the problem. Ideas that are not evidence-based proliferate, such as Freud's Oedipus complex (you are sexually attracted to your parents, which creates a hidden conflict, giving rise to anxiety), while evidence-based ones lie dormant.

Remarkably, though sadly predictably, British psychiatrists still cling to the psycho-social model that has subverted meaningful research for the past 30 years, establishing the validity of Max Planck's observation that science progresses one retirement at a time.

if I was willing to sound cynical - that the only reason that psychiatrists diagnose their clients is so that insurance companies can pay the bills, and I actually believe that that's more true than the claim that the psychiatric diagnostic categories actually capture the essence of the person's problems.

It's important to say that depression has biological underpinnings, and that while medications do not seem to create irreversible changes in the brain, repeated depressive episodes do.

The Israeli court psychiatrist who examined Eichmann found him a "completely normal man, more normal, at any rate, than I am after examining him," the implication being that the coexistence of normality and bottomless cruelty explodes our ordinary conceptions and present the true enigma of the trial.

Stevie can learn anything from a book. And when it comes to psychiatry, she's read them all. So she wields guilt like a master swordsman. And Max isn't nearly as much of a psychopath as the social worker said because otherwise, she wouldn't feel any guilt at all. At least that's what I tell myself. All the time.

Don't you just love the army? They take a fellow who's been turned into a catatonic mute by being shelled from here to Christmas and say he's not yet been properly diagnosed but he seems a bit nervous.

I was doing general medicine and during residency, I moonlighted at a psychiatric hospital and became very interested in the medical care of psychiatric patients.

When I was still in my psychiatric residency training in New York City, I was subjected to the doctor draft of that time, during the early fifties, at the time of the Korean War.