Searching for a rose garden: challenging psychiatry, fostering mad studies

[Rose is a rose is a rose].

Fostering students’ evaluation behaviour while searching the internet

A program for teaching 9th graders course content (history) and how they should evaluate information found on the WWW was designed and tested. Goal of the program was to teach content, evaluations skills, and to achieve transfer of these skills to a different domain. In the design of the program the principles of two transfer theories were combined using a design-based research approach. Result...

A rose is a rose is a rose?

This young man presented initially and repeatedly over a period of twenty years with symptoms of irritability, depressed and withdrawn mood, impulsivity, out-of-control behavior, and suicidal ideation and behavior. These symptoms occurred with disabling intensity at ages 3 year, 6 1/2 years, and 8 1/2 years, when he had not yet been adequately diagnosed and treated with appropriate psychopharma...

Studies in Psychiatry

Third Edition. (Pp. 336. 45s). London: Ballierc, Tindall & Cassell, 1968. SINCE the British Hypnotism Act of 1952 prohibited exhibitions of hypnosis for entertainment, Ulster is the only part of the United Kingdom where the average person's familiarity (indeed the average medical student or doctor's familiarity) with hypnosis is acquired from a theatre seat. This is the third edition of the aut...

3. Searching for Non-randomised Studies

3) As a quality control, especially when it is expected that an intervention may have less effect in practice than within the context of a carefully conducted RCT with highly selected patient populations and clinicians. For example, the effect of fibrinolytic therapy in myocardial infarction is closely related to the number of hours between onset of chest pain and start of treatment (5); hence,...