Real Psychiatry

  Karl Marx wrote his famous metaphor about religion being an opiate for the proletariat in 1843: “Religious  suffering is, at one and the...

Inpatient psychiatrists in the United States deal with three problems: suicide risk, aggression risk, and the inability care for ones...

“Did you remember all of that noise I was making in the bathroom?   I was trying to kill myself.” The person I was talking wi...

I am going to keep this post brief and to the point.  This is advice that I routinely discuss with people who tell me that they have s...

From reference 1 - see for details.  My first job as a staff psychiatrist was in a clinic in Superior, Wisconsin just across the har...

The headlines are everywhere.  Medical students have a significant prevalence of suicidal thoughts and suicides.  The typical explana...