THE PATIENT HIMSELF

Spying on psychiatrists: surreptitious surveillance of the forensic psychiatric examination by the patient himself.

Lawyers have argued that surveillance of the forensic psychiatric examination is often necessary to protect clients' rights and assure more accurate reporting of the findings. This paper reports a new phenomenon which adds a disconcerting dimension to the current controversy over surveillance of such examinations, namely, surreptitious recording by patient/examinees of their own forensic examin...

Self-Cannibalism: The Man Who Eats Himself

Self-mutilation is a general term for a variety of forms of intentional self-harm without the wish to die. Although there have been many reports of self-mutilation injuries in the literature, none have reported self-cannibalism after self-mutilation. In this article we present a patient with self-cannibalism following self-mutilation. A 34-year-old male patient was brought to the emergency depa...

[The physician in spite of himself].

A Physician in Spite of Himself

This text, published in late 2009, presents an excellent guide to herbal pharmacotherapies and is well laid out. Evidence is graded from A (Strong scientific), B (good), C (unclear or conflicting), through to D (fair negative). A series of chapters on relevant organs and diseases including Parkinson's disease, insomnia, and pain, are very comprehensive. Several diseases had some commendable and...

Putting the World Outside Himself: Metaphorical Meaning in the Zhuangzi

The Zhuangzi was originally compiled around 350-300 BCE, or the Warring States period, during which many classic Chinese philosophical works were written. Like the Dao De Jing and other canonical Daoist texts written around this time, the Zhuangzi has been used as a meditative guide and self-cultivation handbook for people looking to escape the social pressures of traditional Chinese culture. T...