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American Family Physician
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Assessment and Management of Personality Disorders Patients with personality disorders are common in primary care settings; caring for them can be difficult. The characteristics of these patients' personalities tend to elicit strong feelings in physicians, lead to the development of problematic physician-patient relationships, and complicate the task of diagnosing and managing medical and psychiatric disorders. |
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'You Can't See Why on an fMRI' What science can, and can't, tell us about the insanity defense. |
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ifeminists
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Marginalized No Longer! In Broken Brains or Wounded Hearts--What Causes Mental Illness, Ty C. Colbert elucidates his very innovative concept of a forced choice: the emotional pain model does not lay the blame on the individual, but eventually opens the door for him to take charge of his own life and set of choices. |
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ifeminists
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Managed Care
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National Mental Health Parity Bill Poised To Pass This Time Around After years of skirmishing over mental health parity, the battle lines are drawn. Troops are armed with a cache of talking points and data -- pro and con. And, after a brief summer truce, another big showdown looms on Capitol Hill. |
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Antisocial Personality Disorder Having an Antisocial Personality Disorder is vastly different from being antisocial. It is a serious form of mental illness. Learn it's signs, its symptoms and what you can do about it. |
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ifeminists
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Christine Wilhelm: "Mentally Ill" Victim or Murderer? Christine Wilhelm, the mother who stands accused of murdering her four-year old son Luke by drowning him in a bathtub in their home near Vermont on April 16th, 2002, has become the latest poster girl of the mental health field establishment. |
American Family Physician
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ifeminists
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Genetic Testing: Major Opportunity, Major Problems Whether a person is likely to develop diabetes, cancer, schizophrenia, or stroke will be reasonably well predicted, and tests can also determine whether a patient will respond to a given therapy. That's the good part. |
ifeminists
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Tom Cruise Was - Right! In American, when even choosing to be a jerk in your automobile is now viewed as suffering from a mental disorder that requires therapy and drugs, psychiatry is 100% -- pseudoscience. |
American Family Physician
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AHA, Alphabet Set Aside $75 Million To Cure Coronary Heart Disease The American Heart Association, Verily (the company formerly known as Google Life Sciences), and European pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca are investing the funds over a five-year period. |
American Family Physician
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Management of Bipolar Disorder A comprehensive management program, including collaboration between the patient's family physician and psychiatrist, should be implemented to optimize medical care... |
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Two Major Studies Focus On Mental Health Two major studies on mental health say that while strides have been made in awareness of the problem and the willingness of patients to seek help, much more needs to be done. |
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