August 26, 2011 I am a pakistani doctor with over ten years working experience in psychiatry. This year I plan to migrate to Uk through the investment channel. And in this regard, I have decided to run a residential care home. Hence I need information from anyone who might be experienced in the business of residential care homes.
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August 25, 2011 Does anyone know any good online therapy for teen?
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August 23, 2011 I am starting college this year, and I am going pre-professional medical. I want to work with special needs children, but I also want a job in the field of psychiatry. I would like to work with babies too. So is there a job out there that has all of these combined? Because I want to do all of those things.
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August 20, 2011 I’m going to college next year and am thinking about psychology or psychiatry. I know psychiatry first has medicine and psychology doesnt, but apart from that, is there any difference? I sort of have the idea that a psychologist cant help as much as a psychiatrist, I know that sounds arrogant but I’ve always pictured them being second when it comes to helping people.
Apart from medication, I cant really see what else there is as a difference, but even my career teacher said " the prestige of being a psychiatrist" but then again becomig a psychologist is a long road too. I suppose I’m just unsure which would give me the best chance to help people. I’d hate to be working thinking that some one else has a greater ability because he chose the right college degree.
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August 17, 2011 People that are against biological psychiatry do not deny that people suffer or that they can hallucinate or have delusions. What they deny is that these things are the result of genetic and biological defects.
Why?
Peter Breggin, Psychiatry and the Holocaust:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQZdUmxG1Es
Harding:
http://www.apa.org/monitor/feb00/schizophrenia.aspx
Ilardi and his research of the Kaluli tribe:
http://www.amazon.com/Depression-Cure-6-Step-Program-without/dp/0738213136
Exporting DSM to "developing" countries:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bt9WMhHJhkM
Whitaker, author of Mad in America:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73Dx_uuyXYk&feature=related
Katie Couric interview with Prof. of Psychiatric Department of Harvard (second video down):
http://www.yoism.org/?q=node/120
And,
- There is no evidence that antidepressants reduce the risk of suicide or suicide attempts in comparison with a placebo in clinical trials (Kahn et al. 2000).
- In fact, rates have actually increased in some age groups and in some countries despite increased antidepressant prescribing (Moncrieff & Kirsch 2006), and when antidepressant trials have been re-analyzed to compensate for erroneous methodologies, the SSRIs have consistently revealed a risk of suicide (completed or attempted) of between two to four times higher than placebo (Jackson 2005).
- Sharply rising levels of antidepressant prescribing since the 1990s have been accompanied by increased prevalence of depressive episodes (Patten 2004) and by rising levels of sickness absence for depression (Moncrieff & Pomerleau 2000).
- Longitudinal follow-up studies (which study the effects of antidepresants over the long term – not just the 6-8 week periods the clinical trials look at) show very poor outcomes for people treated for depression both in the hospital and in the community, and the overall prevalence of depression is rising despite increased use of antidepressants (Moncrieff & Kirsch, 2006).
- Over the long-term, people prescribed antidepressants have a worse outcome than those not prescribed them, even after baseline severity had been taken into account (Brugha TS et al, 1992; Ronalds C et al., 1997). No comparable studies exist that show a better outcome in people prescribed antidepressants.
Studies are also showing that the disease model actually increases instead of decreases stigma of mental illnesses.
If you think this is all scare tactics think again. In Switzerland, it is now legal for someone to assist the suicide of someone with a "chronic" mental illness. Who gets to decide they are a candidate for the "Dignitas" euthenasia clinic? A psychiatrist. How? Through unscientific judgment. Through talking. Legal euthenasia of suicidal people as long as they have supposed "defects" says something about a society. It send the message that people who want to die are right and that people with the same things who choose life are "just too stupid to know their lives are worthless.".
I have a question. If you work in the mental health industry and promote this philosophy…how do you look in the mirror?
It would be nice if people actually argued with the facts I have presented. I’ve noticed that assuming things about my history, wishing mental illness on my loved ones, or calling me a Scientologist (which I am not) is usually all anyone can muster after being presented with these facts. Kind of bizarre.
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August 16, 2011 I am looking for a PTA program that will allow me to continue to work full time.
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August 15, 2011 should i become a forensic psychiatrist or not im intrested in forensic science and psychology plus law so i thought omg the perfect job for me but im watching 88 minutes and im kind of getting scared. what if a serial killer comes after me fyi im 12 and a virgo so you can say im a natural worrier my dream college is stanford and im devoted to getting in.
also what are the chances of a serial killer coming after me
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August 14, 2011 12. In psychodynamic therapy, a primary focus is on penetrating the client’s
A. expectations. C. defense mechanisms.
B. unconscious hostility. D. apathy.
15. Among somatoform disorders, hypochondriasis is to obsessive concern about one’s
health as a/an _______ disorder is to marked physical symptoms with no identifiable
physiological cause.
A. hysterical C. obsessive
B. dissociative D. conversion
16. In the process of Freudian psychoanalysis, patients may come to think of the therapist as a
symbol of their feelings for a parent, lover, or abuser. This phenomenon is referred as
A. transference. C. projection.
B. free association. D. latent content.
17. Regarding perspectives on abnormality, what is the common ground between the
medical and psychoanalytic perspectives?
A. Both view abnormal behaviors as learned behaviors.
B. Both assume that people’s thoughts and beliefs underlie problematic behavior.
C. Both view abnormal behaviors as symptoms of underlying problems.
D. Both view abnormal behavior as rooted in biological processes.
19. In the context of rational-emotional behavior therapy, which of the following is
considered an unrealistic and irrational idea?
A. It’s not a big deal when things don’t go the way I want them to.
B. No one in my life should love me and approve of what I do.
C. How I view a situation effects how I feel about myself in that situation.
D. We must be accomplished and successful in every aspect of our lives to feel like a
worthwhile person.
21. Lois and Lang are in a heated discussion over the effectiveness of psychotherapy. Lois
maintains that psychotherapy works for most people. Lang argues that it doesn’t work
for everyone. Who is correct?
A. Lang only C. Neither Lang nor Lois
B. Lois only D. Both Lang and Lois
23. A therapist determined that Alice depends on relationships with others to find some
shaky ground for her self-identity. In this context, Alice has always been devastated by
rejection of any kind. Alice is likely to be diagnosed as suffering from a/an
A. sociopathic personality. C. narcissistic personality disorder.
B. borderline personality disorder. D. antisocial personality disorder.
24. In the context of a therapeutic program, you regularly take a drug that causes you to
get violently ill whenever you drink alcohol. Among behavioral approaches to therapy,
this would best be called
A. systematic desensitization. C. aversive conditioning.
B. contingent conditioning. D. negative reinforcement.
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August 14, 2011 I would like to work with people who have just been arrested for interrogation, to evaluate their state of mind or to see if a criminal is just pretending to be insane.
Would I need to study psychology or psychiatry? What’s the difference? And what would be the name of the occupation I just described?
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August 13, 2011 I have not been able to find any very helpful sites, or anyone that has specific training in this area.
Therapist suggested researching online, and she would as well. She is not very helpful, and I need to change to a new one, I just dont want to hurt her feelings.
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August 11, 2011 think about this study that delves into the mental issues associated with liberalism?
While 58 percent of Republicans reported having excellent mental health, only 38 percent of Democrats described themselves that way.
The study was no surprise to Dr. Lyle H. Rossiter, a veteran psychiatrist and author of a controversial book that makes the clinical case liberalism is a mental illness.
"Based on strikingly irrational beliefs and emotions, modern liberals relentlessly undermine the most important principles on which our freedoms were founded," says Rossiter, author of "The Liberal Mind: The Psychological Causes of Political Madness." "Like spoiled, angry children, they rebel against the normal responsibilities of adulthood and demand that a parental government meet their needs from cradle to grave."
While political activists on the other side of the spectrum have made similar observations, Rossiter boasts professional credentials and a life virtually free of activism and links to "the vast right-wing conspiracy."
Read more: Only 38% of Dems claim excellent mental health http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=57683#ixzz1TVH4qdVk
For more than 35 years he has diagnosed and treated more than 1,500 patients as a board-certified clinical psychiatrist and examined more than 2,700 civil and criminal cases as a board-certified forensic psychiatrist. He received his medical and psychiatric training at the University of Chicago.
Rossiter says the kind of liberalism being displayed by both Barack Obama and his Democratic primary opponent Hillary Clinton can only be understood as a psychological disorder.
"A social scientist who understands human nature will not dismiss the vital roles of free choice, voluntary cooperation and moral integrity – as liberals do," he says. "A political leader who understands human nature will not ignore individual differences in talent, drive, personal appeal and work ethic, and then try to impose economic and social equality on the population – as liberals do. And a legislator who understands human nature will not create an environment of rules which over-regulates and over-taxes the nation’s citizens, corrupts their character and reduces them to wards of the state – as liberals do."
Dr. Rossiter says the liberal agenda preys on weakness and feelings of inferiority in the population by:
* creating and reinforcing perceptions of victimization;
* satisfying infantile claims to entitlement, indulgence and compensation;
* augmenting primitive feelings of envy;
* rejecting the sovereignty of the individual, subordinating him to the will of the government.
"The roots of liberalism – and its associated madness – can be clearly identified by understanding how children develop from infancy to adulthood and how distorted development produces the irrational beliefs of the liberal mind," he says. "When the modern liberal mind whines about imaginary victims, rages against imaginary villains and seeks above all else to run the lives of persons competent to run their own lives, the neurosis of the liberal mind becomes painfully obvious."
By the way, the Gallup poll conducted late last year also found only 43 percent of independents describe themselves as in excellent mental health. While Rossiter thinks he understands the discrepancy in the state of mental health between Democrats and Republicans, the Gallup pollsters could only scratch their heads.
"The reason the relationship exists between being a Republican and more positive mental health is unknown, and one cannot say whether something about being a Republican causes a person to be more mentally healthy or whether something about being mentally healthy causes a person to choose to become a Republican," the study concluded.
Read more: Only 38% of Dems claim excellent mental health http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=57683#ixzz1TVEaetJu
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