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liaison psychiatry
liaison psychiatry (lee-ay-zŏn) n. the speciality that provides an interface between medicine and psychiatry. Liaison teams, consisting of psychiatric nurses, psychiatrists, and sometimes psychologists or social workers, are usually located in general hospitals and see patients after deliberate self-harm and when a mental illness is suspected in order to diagnose and advise on treatment.
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Psychiatry must not be separated from its historical and cultural context.(Commentaries on Historicizing Indian Psychiatry)
Magazine article from: Indian Journal of Psychiatry; 4/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...cultural perspective in research on Indian psychiatry and its history is highly justified...practical relevance of the history of psychiatry in general, given the present-day debate on psychiatry's identity (I). This will be in...
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Geriatric Psychiatry and Fellowship Programs in the United States
Magazine article from: Care Management Journals; 12/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...Disease Control, 2006). Keywords: geriatric psychiatry; fellowship programs; academic discipline; recruitment; interdisciplinary approach Geriatric psychiatry is the branch of psychiatry concerned with the prevention, diagnosis...
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PSYCHIATRY CONFERENCE IN NZ ON OCT 14-16.(Conference news)
News Wire article from: AsiaPulse News; 10/9/2009; 700+ words
; ...details below.) MEDIA RELEASE PR36487 Psychiatry Conference AUCKLAND, Oct. 9 /Medianet...conference will cover a broad range of psychiatry and mental health issues. Keynote speakers and experts in psychiatry at the conference include: * Professor...
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Psychiatry and Neuroscience
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of Psychiatry; 8/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...understood at multiple levels. Can J Psychiatry. 2009;54(8):513-517. Highlights...the activity of neurons. Key Words: psychiatry, neuroscience, reductionism In 2005...Association (JAMA) suggesting that psychiatry should redefine itself as a clinical...
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Leading Psychiatry Textbook Reaches Ninth Edition; New Update of Kaplan & Sadock's Synopsis Is Ready for Next Generation.
Business Wire; 2/20/2003; 700+ words
; ...of Kaplan & Sadock's Synopsis of Psychiatry, the leading comprehensive psychiatry textbook and reference. Since its First...the standard single-volume textbook of psychiatry. The new Ninth Edition has been fully updated...
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Defining Psychiatry
Magazine article from: Freeman; 7/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...everyone considers himself an expert on psychiatry, especially in the aftermath of a...telling us that they cannot even define psychiatry. In 1886 Emil Kraepelin, the undisputed founder of modern psychiatry as a medical specialty and science...
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Undergraduate psychiatry education: Present scenario in India.(Symposium: Under Graduate Psychiatry)
Magazine article from: Indian Journal of Psychiatry; 7/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...year 2007 is to focus on undergraduate Psychiatry education in all the medical colleges...Psychiatric Society is very serious about Psychiatry education in the Undergraduate curriculum...patients. Major rift exists between Psychiatry and the rest of Medicine, which is...
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Reduction in Psychiatry
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of Psychiatry; 8/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...examine the doctrine of reductionism in psychiatry. Method: A selective review of the...arguments offered in support of reduction in psychiatry are presented and found to be unsatisfactory...to neuroscience or genetics. Can J Psychiatry. 2009;54(8):506-512. Highlights...
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BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY: A PRACTICE IN SEARCH OF A SCIENCE
Magazine article from: Behavior and Social Issues; 10/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...in the past thirty years is traced to psychiatry's efforts to regain lost status and...methodology and interpretation. Organized psychiatry, when challenged in 2003, was unable...pharmaceutical industry; organized psychiatry; efficacy of psychotropic medications...
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Person-centred psychiatry: the recent 10th International Conference on Philosophy, Psychiatry and Psychology.(Editorial)
Magazine article from: South African Journal of Psychiatry; 12/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...psychiatrists, are at the centre of psychiatry! So guided the theme 'Hypotheses...International Conference on Philosophy, Psychiatry and Psychology (PPP) held at extravagant...real persons being at the centre of psychiatry is also a top programmatic priority...
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Psychiatry
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
PSYCHIATRY PSYCHIATRY. Psychiatry, a branch of medicine, is a discipline that takes the full range of human behaviors, from severe mental illness to everyday worries and concerns, as its study. In the nineteenth century the discipline was...
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Psychiatry/Psychiatrist
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Psychology
Psychiatry/Psychiatrist A physician who specializes...certification from the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (ABPN), which requires...legally required in order to practice psychiatry. Psychiatrists may practice general...
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American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry (AAAP)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Drugs, Alcohol, and Addictive Behavior
AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ADDICTION PSYCHIATRY (AAAP) The American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry (7301 Mission Road, Suite 252, Prairie...itself the American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry. The AAAP strives to provide psychiatrists...
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Geriatric Psychiatry
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Aging
GERIATRIC PSYCHIATRY Geriatric psychiatry is the branch of clinical medicine dedicated to the study and...proper diagnosis, and requires not just expertise in geriatric psychiatry but also knowledge of geriatric medicine, neurology, gerontology...
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Psychology and Psychiatry
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHIATRY. Psychiatry in the United States has undergone a number of sweeping changes...psychiatric illness have not improved, but simply to say that psychiatry's revolutions cannot be traced to the kinds of scientific...
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