psychiatry

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00787-020-01536-1 sci-hub.tw/10.1007/s00787-020-01536-1

A worrying approach being actively anticipated and encouraged:

No time to read this today and apologies if already posted in another thread: https://psyarxiv.com/bwa6m/ What is the Functional / Organic Distinction Actually Doing in Psychiatry and Neurology? Authors: Vaughan Bell, Sam Wilkinson, Monica Greco, Callum Hendrie, Ben Mills, Quinton Deeley...

I have been going through my old books from the loft and came across one on Psychiatry (bought at the time I was deciding on whether to go for an autism diagnostic assessment, rather than to look up what it contained on M.E.). So for the first time, before putting it aside on my 'to sell' pile...

" Women's Health Clinical Trials We are currently recruiting women and men for all of the following studies in the Greater Cincinnati (Ohio) area: Fibromyalgia Studies In these studies, we are testing new medications for the treatment of fibromyalgia symptoms in adolescents and adults...

https://www.psych.ox.ac.uk/news/65th-president-and-chairman-of-the-board-of-the-academy-of-consultation-liaison-psychiatry 65th President and Chairman of the Board of the Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry 26 November 2019 Michael Sharpe, Professor of Psychological Medicine at the...

Medicine and the Mind — The Consequences of Psychiatry’s Identity Crisis List of authors. Caleb Gardner, M.D., and Arthur Kleinman, M.D. In psychiatry, checklists of symptoms now take the place of thoughtful diagnosis, and trial-and-error “medication management” dominates practice. We face...

Not sure if this is relevant: https://www.nejm.org/action/showMediaPlayer?doi=10.1056/NEJMdo005619&aid=10.1056/NEJMp1910603&viewType=Popup&viewClass=Audio&ctype=audiointerview&area=production&query=pfwNGTa Caleb Gardner is a psychiatrist who recently completed his residency at Cambridge Health...

How psychiatric referrals influence stigmatization in patients with myalgic encephalomyelitis and chronic fatigue syndrome: An examination of American and British models Julia Terman, Joseph Cotler, Leonard A. Jason Article: Community Psychology in Global Perspective...

Hardly a new paper, but I can't see this paper as a title on any existing thread. It's interesting to read Wessely himself state that they found no evidence for CFS/ME patients having negative attitudes to psychiatry, nor for having a particular 'perfectionist personality': Sci-hub link...

Paywall, https://journals.lww.com/jonmd/Abstract/2019/09000/Modern_Day_Relics_of_Psychiatry.1.aspx Sci hub, not available

Open access at https://ebm.bmj.com/content/early/2019/07/04/bmjebm-2019-111176#T2

I'm creating a separate thread for this, as I believe there will be some articles and additional information of interest before, during and after this conference. There's been a large annual psychiatric conference in Stavanger, Norway called "The Schizophrenia Days" since 1989. It has grown...

Interesting, long piece in the New Yorker Challenges to the legitimacy of the profession have forced it to examine itself, including the fundamental question of what constitutes a mental disorder. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/05/27/the-troubled-history-of-psychiatry

Interesting and relevant book review: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/04/mind-fixers-anne-harrington/583228/

Thought this might be of interest to some of you hard sciencers out there. When you read it, you just keep thinking of Sharpe, White and Wessely. Scihub link here Abstract:

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/the-british-journal-of-psychiatry/article/rise-and-fall-of-the-biopsychosocial-model/A31DAA3BED6569F6080A1DF2C1D15A64/core-reader

Article on state of psychiatry - and its disastrous incursion into ME research ie PACEtrial - by my friend George Winter in Irish medical journal Medical Independent. The link works but is v slow to load, for me, at least. https://www.medicalindependent.ie/104349/its_all_in_the_mind

Oxford Textbook of medicine (published 2010 but updated 2018): Chronic fatigue syndrome (postviral fatigue syndrome, neurasthenia, and myalgic encephalomyelitis) Chapter: Chronic fatigue syndrome (postviral fatigue syndrome, neurasthenia, and myalgic encephalomyelitis) Author(s): Michael...