Treatment resistance in psychiatry

Treatment in Psychiatry

This book is not a discussion of vital statistics, as the name might imply but rather the observations of a life-time study of obstetrics in many countries, some in the far corners of the globe. The author is convinced that if the process of childbirth is to be made more safe certain essentials are requisite. Chief of these are: 1. The round pelvic brim. 2. Flexible pelvic joints. 3. Natural po...

Treatment in Psychiatry

(9), there are at least two different subtypes of alcoholism. Type B-like or early-onset alcoholism is characterized by high familial loading, a broad range of impulse-dyscontrol traits, and an early onset (before age 25) of problem drinking (see case 1). In contrast, type A-like or late-onset alcoholism is characterized by a later age at onset of problem drinking (typically age 25 or older), a...

Insulin Treatment in Psychiatry

to-the-minute bibliography on subjects ranging from inborn errors of metabolism to mental deficiency associated with kidney diseases. His canvas is extensive, and although it will not completely satisfy the neurologist, the pwdiatrician, and the psychiatrist, it serves the useful purpose of providing each with an up-to-date list of references in the other related fields. The text is not at all ...

Toward personalized treatment in psychiatry.

I n recent years, there has been, inspired by developments in other areas of medicine like oncology, an increasing interest in the potential possibilities of personalized medicine in psychiatry. One of the motivating factors behind this interest in the field of mood disorders is the growing awareness among clinicians and researchers that the " one size fits all " approach to the treatment of ma...

Moral treatment in American psychiatry.