"After years of American mental health care moving towards greater use of psychiatric medications, the pendulum has started swinging back towards psychotherapy," lead researcher Dr. Mark Olfson ...

Who’s on the couch here? The psychiatrist or the poet? The poem or the practice of psychiatry? As a poet and a psychiatrist/therapist, I exist in both practices ...

Caitjan Gainty has received funding from the Wellcome Trust. In his new book, No More Normal, psychiatrist Alastair Santhouse recalls an experience from the 1980s when he was a university student ...

Getting help for a psychiatric crisis at a hospital emergency room is not wrong, but there are alternatives that may be safer and less overwhelming. A security guard in a Valley hospital emergency ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Beth A. Smith, MD, has been appointed chair of the Department of Psychiatry in the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the University at Buffalo, effective March 1.

Their agenda presents itself as a critique of the over-medicalization of mental and social distress, calling for an investigation into the supposed “threat” posed by psychiatric medications.

Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has made psychiatric medications a focus of his review of the country’s childhood chronic disease crisis, claiming the drugs have ...

While the Medscape Psychiatrist Compensation Report 2024 found psychiatrists earned an average of $323,000 last year, 45% of respondents said that compensation played no factor in selecting the ...

“. . . by the late 1980s . . . the chemical imbalance theory of depression . . . should have been dead in the water. Yet, it managed to survive long enough to be revitalized by the ...

Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center Permian Basin welcomes Dr. Rajendra Badgaiyan, MBA, as the new Professor and Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at TTUHSC Permian Basin ...

If you can’t get in to see a psychiatrist and you need help, there are some other options. However in an emergency, you should call 000. severe depression, including suicidal thoughts or ...