Real Psychiatry

In a previous post on psychiatry and torture, I pointed out the American Psychiatric Association's official position paper on tort...

In the event that it is not obvious, the bulk of my career was spent as an acute care psychiatrist.  I staffed inpatient psychiatric unit...

On my drive home from work yesterday, I heard an outrageous story about a judge ordering LA County jail to build 3,200 psychiatric beds ...

I could not help but respond to the Psychiatric Times article with the same title that they e-mailed me this morning.  Trust in an interest...

The New York Times Editorial Board came out with a comment on mental health parity entitled Equal Coverage for the Mentally Ill.   Like most...

JAMA Psychiatry recently posted commentary on a form of patient dumping that I described in a previous post as Greyhound therapy .  The aut...

I finished reading E. Fuller Torrey's recently released book  American Psychosis - How the Federal Government Destroyed the Mental Illne...

I want to post some references on the issue of "overutilization" but it is necessary to review the concept before I can post tho...

As managed care organizations worked on how they could prioritize pricing over medical decisions they came up with various plans to “m...