Public Education in Psychiatry

Transforming neuroscience education in psychiatry.

In considering the articles assembled in this special issue of Academic Psychiatry and the motivations for creating it, one must reflect on the current state of the relationship between neuroscience and psychiatry. Psychiatric disorders are inherently brain disorders, and neuroscience is the basic science of psychiatry. Although most psychiatrists entered this profession because of their curios...

Psychiatry and public policy.

Psychiatry Education To-Day

The enormous demand for individual psychoanalytic treatment in private practice, which is peculiar to American society, has created special problems of postgraduate psychiatric education in the United States. Many able young doctors are attracted to psychoanalysis by its high prestige and considerable financial rewards. As the result, there is a tendency on the part of some trainees to neglect ...

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, ...

Forensic psychiatry and public protection.

The prominence of risk in UK social and criminal justice policy creates opportunities, challenges and dangers for forensic psychiatry. The future standing of the specialty will depend not only on the practical utility of its responses to those opportunities and challenges, but also the ethical integrity of those responses.