Student Psychiatry Today

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, ...

Attitudes of medical student towards psychiatry as their future job

Introduction. The number of Medical gratuates choosing careers in psychiatry is in decline. In order to determine whether this disinclination toward psychiatry occurs before versus during medical school, this study, surveyed medical students at the start of their freshman year and last year of Medical educations. Methods. 100 freshman medical students and 100 of interns from three medical sch...

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...