Psychiatrists and euthanasia

Patients’ expectations from internists, psychiatrists and surgeons

Introduction: Treatment is a complicated phenomenon which is influenced by a lot of factors. An important factor which directly affects patients’ treatment is the relationship between patient and physicians. This study was conducted to investigate the expectations of patients from their physicians. Methods: The target population in this cross-sectional study was all patients who, for the firs...

Suffering from Illness and Euthanasia sentence

Perhaps, the most appropriate translation proposed for euthanasia is the painless and piteous killing. According to the existence of effective components in committing a crime, it is considered as complicity in murder and the consent of victim does not affect the nature of criminal act and the criminal liability of person depriving the life. One of issues related to this killing which is disagr...

Euthanasia and natural law.

Psychiatrists and Psychiatric Society

The Indian Psychiatric Society is the main and only organisation in our country which has been looking into all aspects related to psychiatry. We, the members of the society many times introspect whether our organisation is fulfilling what we expect it to do and also our role in improving the image of our society. The Psychiatric Society is the proper forum for having liaison with other interna...

Psychodynamic psychiatrists and psychopharmacology.

Over the past 20 years, the previously frowned upon combination of pharmacotherapy and psychoanalytic or psychodynamic therapy has become common practice because of both findings from the neurosciences that demonstrate hardwired brain development from chronic early stress and trauma and from efficacy studies that show the superiority of combined therapy over either psychotherapy or medication a...