Mental Health Practitioners

Compensation case sets mental injury rule

PERCEPTION: Supreme Court says trauma effect on claimant matters. | A former prison guard at the Anchorage Jail who was threatened by a convicted murderer intoxicated on hair spray and armed with a sharpened pencil deserves...

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Liberation Psychology for the U.S. — Bruce Levine

From Z Magazine by Bruce E. Levine. (Permission to reprint from the author) Liberation Psychology for the U.S. Are we too demoralized to protest? The term “liberation psychology” was popularized by Ignacio Martin-Baró...

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Collective Depression Syndrome Among Asylum-Seeking Detainees Highlighted in New Paper Published...

A new paper by William W Bostock from the School of Government, University of Tasmania, analysing the debate between the psychiatric profession and the Australian government over collective depression syndrome found among...

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The Killers Within

A time bomb began ticking in the mid-1970s, when the psychiatric and mental health professions went politically correct and identified the mentally ill as "victims" who required advocates. While patients in general do need...

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Questions remain about risk to public

BY SONYA COLBERG Comments 0 Published: November 22, 2009 The debate over whether antidepressants play a role in suicides and homicides has taken twists and turns over the years. Drug company GlaxoSmithKline sent a letter in May...

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Are we mad with anger?

Gannett • Are we bad for getting mad? • November 22, 2009 Psychologists say it's normal to get angry. "There is very little, if any, social consequence to turning on the flames," says Art Markman, a psychology professor at the...

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Pharmaceutical Giant Paid $500,000 to Psychiatrist Who Used Chicago's Poor as Guinea Pigs.

Eye opener. Story: This story was co-published by ProPublica the Chicago Tribune. Executives inside pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca faced a high-stakes dilemma. On one hand, Chicago psychiatrist Dr. Michael Reinstein was...

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Go to the Hospital in Illinois and Lose Your Gun Rights

News Type: Event — Sat Nov 21, 2009 12:31 PM EST For some reason I couldnt seed the link to this story. Recent Illinois Law (PA 95-0564) provides that health care professionals report patients to the state police anyone that...

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Fired Psychiatrist Creates USMC Concerns

CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. - Marines treated at Camp Lejeune for post-traumatic stress had to undergo therapy for months in temporary trailers where they could hear bomb blasts, machine-gun fire and war cries through the thin walls,...

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Burned teen having skin graft surgery

Prosecutors say Michael Brewer, 15, was set ablaze in a dispute over $40, a video game and a bicycle. Hospital spokeswoman says Michael Brewer having own skin put onto burned areas Brewer, 15, in guarded condition, will go back...

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