Real Psychiatry

The New York Times came out with an article on prolonged grief disorder .  I thought I would write about it because in some ways it is a con...

Let me preface this post by saying that I am not a member of a political party and I do not endorse any political views about abortion...

Since moving to a strictly outpatient consulting practice, I have been amazed at the number of women who are taking bupropion despi...

One of my favorite things these days is the concept (or is it diagnosis?) of burnout .  It seems to be a popular topic in m...

from:  CONVERGE consortium.  Nature. 2015 Jul 15. doi: 10.1038/nature14659. [Epub ahead of print] - see complete reference 1 bel...

I am not talking about the spine as a metaphor, I am talking about the real spine.  I am also not going to discuss some alternate therap...

Psychiatrists are seeing increasing numbers of male patients who are being treated for low testosterone.  The symptoms of "Low T" ...

It's Tuesday night and I just finished a lecture at about 7:40 and headed home.  That involves about a 45 minute drive down Minnesota Hi...

I wrote a previous post about the APA backing the so-called collaborative care model and provided a link to the actual diagram about how th...

"I never knew what depression was.  I knew that 'I'm kind of sad today...I'm kind of blue today,... the Reds lost.'  I ...

In a word - computers. I had the good fortune of training with John Greist, MD  at the University of Wisconsin in the 1980s.  Interestingl...