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Psychiatrists up in arms against Krazzy 4
2008-04-10 22:49:00 Earlier this week eminent psychologists expressed misgivings on television about the psychological accuracy of the mentally unsound characters in Krazzy 4. But Rakesh Roshan is unperturbed. "We had a psychological expert on the sets constantly. We went to rehabilitation centres. We saw how mental patients lived. None of them lived up to the stereotypes of Hindi cinema where mentally unsound people are shown screaming tearing their hair and sitting awkwardly. In reality, such people are hard to tell apart from normal people. We've shown mentally unsound people in Krazzy 4 as behaving normally."The producer feels the protests are premature. "Let them first watch the film. We're in fact going to set a new trend in the way psychological disorder is shown in our films. People should see the film before deciding whether we're in the wrong." He adds an afterthought, "Whenever my films are around the corner some stupid controversy or the other comes up. It seems people take advantage of ...
The Impact of a Diagnosis (Part 2)
2007-10-02 09:01:00 When the psychiatrist diagnosed me as atypical bipolar II, and told me this was a "mental illness," I was stunned. Despite my semi-annual six week depressive episodes, I was one of the most "normal" people I knew.In that first meeting, the doctor not only didn't provide very much information on bipolar disorder, but she prescribed Zoloft (for which she had no written material) rather than trying a mood stabilizer. Since all of this was pre-Internet, I had to hunt all over to find material on manic-depression and on Zoloft.The details of my story are included in my upcoming book, Bipolar Depression Unplugged: A Survivor Speaks Out, and because it's copyrighted material, I can't repeat here what I've written. Suffice it to say, it was a terrible experience.After a decade of illness, and extraordinarily bad experiences with four psychiatrists who prescribed 25 different medications in different combinations and dosages, I often wish I'd never been diagnosed.I sincerely believe tha...
Killer Boasts of Tricking Psychiatrists
2007-09-20 14:00:00 "It's really not hard to make up stuff," grinned David Weightman, 28, talking about how he had convinced psychiatrists he was hearing voices to receive a lighter sentence for the murder of his adoptive parents in their Sydney. Australia home. Weightman received 25 years on the grounds of "diminished responsibility" rather than the life sentence he would have otherwise received. Appearing in the Supreme Court jury murder trial of his alleged accomplice, Terry Donai, Weightman reported that he and that he and Donai had discussed the fact that as he was an only child and would inherit from his parents' deaths. The murder plan involved Weightman drugging his parents and that Donai would then smother them. On the night of January 8, 2000, Weightman put several sleeping tablets into his parents' tea and was outside their house when he heard his mother scream from her bedroom. Donai had emerged from the house "stinking like death&...
By: Providentia
Killer Boasts of Tricking Psychiatrists
2007-09-20 14:00:00 "It's really not hard to make up stuff," grinned David Weightman, 28, talking about how he had convinced psychiatrists he was hearing voices to receive a lighter sentence for the murder of his adoptive parents in their Sydney. Australia home. Weightman received 25 years on the grounds of "diminished responsibility" rather than the life sentence he would have otherwise received. Appearing in the Supreme Court jury murder trial of his alleged accomplice, Terry Donai, Weightman reported that he and that he and Donai had discussed the fact that as he was an only child and would inherit from his parents' deaths. The murder plan involved Weightman drugging his parents and that Donai would then smother them. On the night of January 8, 2000, Weightman put several sleeping tablets into his parents' tea and was outside their house when he heard his mother scream from her bedroom. Donai had emerged from the house "stinking like death&...
By: Providentia
Psychiatrists joke
2007-09-16 14:04:00 Question: What are the relations between psychologists, psychoanalysts and psychiatrists? Answer: Psychologists build castles in the air. Psychoanalysts live in them and Psychiatrists collect the rent. Jokes and humor category: Psychiatrists jokes and humor * * * * * Visit http://j4jokes.blogspot.com for more fun.
By: J 4 JOKES
Study reveals Psychiatrists least religious
2007-09-06 18:47:00 The following has been shamelessly ripped off from Mind Hacks. A just published study that looked at the religious beliefs of different types of medical doctors in the US has found that psychiatrists are the least religious among the medical specialities. The study also found that non-psychiatrist physicians who were religious, were least likely to refer ...
Army Plans To Hire More Psychiatrists
2007-06-15 21:37:00 by- Suzie-Q @ 12:38 PM MST WASHINGTON - Overwhelmed by the number of soldiers returning from war with mental problems, the Army is planning to hire at least 25 percent more psychiatrists, psychologists and social workers. A contract finalized this week but not yet announced calls for spending $33 million to add about 200 mental health ...
By: Suzie-Q
SO THIS IS WHY MOST DOCTORS, NOT ONLY PSYCHIATRISTS WON'T TALK ABOUT THE PA
2007-05-20 18:29:00 "There are too many interest groups that are thriving in the present US health care system for any major changes to occur soon. I have friends who are doctors who have told me that if it were not for the chronically ill they would not be in business. They also told me that almost all of the chronically ill are or were smokers and/or drinkers or obese or all all of these. Most of these chronically ill use a multitude of prescription drugs, enriching both the drug companies and the docs who prescribe them. That's a pretty powerful bunch, who donate lots of money to politicians." curmudgeon2 [
Forensic psychiatrists gather in the city to discuss methods of helping the
1970-01-01 00:59:00 Legal proceedings are complex at the best of times. When a court case involves a defendant suffering from mental illness, the law suddenly becomes a lot more complicated. Psychiatry is the branch of medicine concerned with the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders, and forensic psychiatry is one of its more demanding disciplines. |
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