'Informal polygamy': a suitable case for treatment?

Migraine – a suitable case for treatment?

Migraine – a suitable case for treatment? Headache disorders are common, with a lifetime prevalence of over 90% in all populations where they have been measured. So common, in fact, that a Global Campaign to Reduce the Burden of Headache was launched in 2004 to educate health care providers, the general public, and national governments to recognize that headache disorders are not trivial, that ...

Film: A Case Not Suitable for Treatment

as entertainment are at liberty to do so. Other writers emphasise the psychiatric nature of the situations that they portray. It is a simple formula: drama portrays behaviour; psychiatry is a study of abnormal behaviour; whenever the dramatic production involves abnormal behaviour, the theme is a psychiatric one. There is one further step in the logic: psychiatry is a clinical practice, and beh...

British drinking: a suitable case for treatment?

Britain: A Suitable Case for Treatment?

It is commonplace enough to observe that nineteenth century Britain could not forever maintain her global hegemony. The world's first industrial power was bound to be challenged by the rise of modern industrial economies in the United States, Germany and Japan. Similarly, the contraction of the capitalist world and the collapse of colonialism were events over which Britain had little direct con...

Childhood: a suitable case for treatment?

We examine the contemporary debate on attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, in which concerns about medicalisation and overuse of drug treatments are paramount. We show medicalisation in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder to be a complex issue that requires systematic research to be properly understood. In particular, we suggest that the debate on this disorder might be more productiv...