Positive psychiatry: its time has come.

National health insurance: an idea whose time has come.

O10: Deep Brain Stimulation and Psychiatry

The use of deep brain stimulation in psychiatric disorders has received great interest owing to the small risk of the operation, the reversible nature of the technique, and the possibility of optimizing treatment postoperatively. Currently deep brain stimulation in psychiatry is investigated for obsessive-compulsive disorder, Gilles de la Tourette’s syndrome and major depression. This presentat...

Psychiatry and the oldest old.

OBJECTIVE This article reviews the assessment and management of psychiatric problems among the oldest old. METHOD The author reviewed the English-language literature pertinent to the characteristics of people 85 years old or older and the assessment and management of psychiatric disorders in this age group with a special focus on depression in the oldest old. RESULTS Much of the current lit...

Postgraduate Psychiatric Education.

NEARLY 20 years ago the Goodenough Report, reviewing the future of psychiatric education in Great Britain pointed out that 'the major and most urgent need is the training of specialist psychiatrists and particularly of teachers of psychiatry' (H.M.S.O., I944). The Report went on to indicate the special place to be occupied during the postwar period by the Maudsley Hospital Medical School, which...

Who's afraid of forensic psychiatry?

Forensic psychiatry has come under mounting criticism from the press and other medical professionals, largely for its participation in the insanity defense. The author argues that the expertise available from the specialty is of increasing importance to psychiatry as a whole, as more and more legal issues become relevant to the practice of general psychiatry, and should be actively encouraged a...