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Psychiatry Today

Psychiatry Education Today

may be gauged by his abilty to eat a single salted peanut; a more stringent test of this quality would be the ability to read only the first ten pages of this book. The Advance of the Fungi is the story of the villains of the fungal world. The sagas of yeast and penicillin are left to more sanguine pens; the characters delineated here are those that rotted the potatoes and withered the grapes, ...

Integrating a Neuroscience Perspective Into Clinical Psychiatry Today.

Aspsychiatrists,weareasked to treatpatientswithextremelycomplex illnesses.Therearemanypossibleways to think about and formulate cases, including a rangeof psychologicalandsocialperspectives,eachwiththeirown strengthsand limitations.Tovaryingdegrees, theseperspectiveshave rightfullyguided thedevelopmentofour fieldandcontinuetoshapethestandardsofourpractice. During the past 20 years, revolutionar...

Magic, faith and healing. Studies in primitive psychiatry today

No one can deny the influence that Freudian analysis has had on twentieth-century psychiatry. Its widespread acceptance suggests that it is an entirely valid and acceptable form of treatment in mental disorders. Nevertheless, there are many sceptics, and a book attacking the ".. . gigantic cultural swindle of American people. . ." is of importance to the historian who wishes to evaluate the maj...

The challenge of neuroscience: psychiatry and phenomenology today.

The paper illustrates the present role of phenomenological psychopathology by outlining its methods and focusing on some of its major issues: embodiment or body scheme, intentionality, time consciousness and intersubjectivity. The application of these categories to the analysis of psychotic disorders is demonstrated. Special emphasis is given to the relationship between phenomenology and cognit...