Psychiatry in General Practice

Catatonia: extinct, lost, or forgotten?

Catatonia is a neuropsychiatric syndrome that occurs in some primary psychiatric disorders (e.g., schizophrenia, mood disorders), or due to general medical conditions (e.g., neurological disorders, drug poisoning, metabolic disorders) (1). Although it is uncommon, but if it goes unrecognized in medical and surgical units (2), it can increase morbidity and mortality. Moreover, making a connectio...

Forensic psychiatry and the perturbation of psychiatrists' attention and neutrality during psychotherapy.

Most psychiatrists who practice the specialty of forensic psychiatry also conduct a general psychiatric practice. The free-floating attention necessary for the conduct of psychotherapy can be distracted by the many exigent demands a forensic practice places on the clinician. On the other hand, forensic psychiatrists are exposed to challenging cases and learn clinical skills ordinarily not obtai...

Relationship between practice counselling and referral to outpatient psychiatry and clinical psychology.

BACKGROUND Although reduction in the use of secondary care mental health services is a suggested benefit of counselling in general practice, there has been little empirical investigation of this relationship. AIM To investigate the relationship between the provision of counselling in general practice and the use of outpatient psychiatry and clinical psychology services across a geographical a...

Psychiatry in general practice.

Psychiatry and general practice: results of a survey of Avon general practitioners.

A survey of general practitioners' views on psychiatry and the psychiatric services within an area has shown that considerable problems exist between general practitioners and psychiatrists over the care of patients with mental illness.

General Practice in North America with Special Reference to Psychiatry, and Its Management by the Family Physician.

I was born in Dundee, possibly inheriting an interest in psychiatry from my grandfather who was, for more than forty years, superintendent of Dundee Royal Mental Hospital, and from my father who divided his fifty years ofpractice between institutional psychiatry and general practice in this city. Educated at Dundee High School and St Andrew's University, I graduated in 1938. Following tenure of...