Psychiatry

Introduction to Mental Health Psychiatry in the United States and in most countries around the world has received major attention lately due to the perceived past neglect by the healthcare research. Several years back, there was a widespread belief in the dearth of the knowledge on psychiatry of mental health illness in the United States of America, however, there has been an expansion in research on this field but there is still a lot of need for accurate data on epidemiology, outcomes, and treatments

service is available. It was my dream to serve these people and believed that they need adequate attention, care and social dignity that is still missing. With this hope in mind, I decided to complete my post-graduation in Psychiatry after my MBBS and completed MD in Psychiatry in 2016. However, during my residency I

Cultural Activity When doing research I found that Benjamin Rush was the father of the American Psychiatry from 1745 to 1813. Rush claimed that “the cause of madness is seated primarily in the blood vessels of the brain” and that mental derangement occurs because the brain is “overcharged” with blood. Also, I researched that Rush had a “Negritude”. In 1797, Rush declared that blacks suffered from a disease called negritude. This he claimed derived from leprosy and caused the skin to be dark and

Clinical psychology and psychiatry are two disciplines applied in the field of mental health that are often confused. The type of issues they address and their working methods may have some resemblance, but there are clear differences between the two. In the field of acquisition, the two are sciences dedicated to the mental health of individuals, and both have the opportunity to perform therapies. It is important to emphasize that when used together, they provide better prognostics in the patient

these asylums from these lay administrators and creating a credible medical foundation upon which mental health interventions will be built. One of the strategies used to achieve this is the rhetorical justification of the “professional project of psychiatry” the essence of which was captured by the following statements published in the Journal of Mental Science in 1858: “Insanity is purely disease of the brain. The

Allen Ginsberg's Poetry and Psychiatry Introduction From the 1930's to the 1960's, early attempts to combine the psychiatric goals of restoring mental health with new advances in medical science would produce tragic results for many of those who trusted modern psychiatry to provide comfort and healing. During this time, science, psychiatry, ambition, power, and politics came together to leave behind a controversial history of events that destroyed the trust and hope placed by many upon modern

The Journal of Child Psychology & Psychiatry and the International Journal of Eating Disorders are both academic sources which deal with the topic of eating disorders. However, because genre and discipline vary between the texts, the use of evidence differs. While “Research Review: What We Have Learned about the Causes of Eating Disorders- a Synthesis of Sociocultural, Psychological, and Biological Research” combines information with an emphasis on psychology, “Biological Therapies for Eating Disorders”

The article on ‘Women and Psychiatry’ on the Science Museum website is informative however, the article has flaws. The purpose of the essay is to encapsulate the article and to guide us through its strengths and weaknesses. In the first part of the article, given the title ‘Victorian Women and the Reform of Asylum’ we come to terms with the social expectations of a Victorian woman. Furthermore, we infer that society was conscious of the behaviours of women and anything that crossed the guidelines

Introduction This reflective assignment is centred on the process of care planning within perinatal psychiatry. The rationale behind this topic is based on a recent placement with the perinatal team; where the majority of the patients were either pregnant or postnatal women with a long term mental illness. The aim of this essay is to look at how a community nurse would establish a care plan, assess the therapeutic interventions and the policies and legislation in relation to an individual patient

When doing research I found that Benjamin Rush was the father of the American Psychiatry from 1745 to 1813. Rush claimed that “the cause of madness is seated primarily in the blood vessels of the brain” and that mental derangement occurs because the brain is “overcharged” with blood. Also, I researched that Rush had a “Negritude”. In 1797, Rush declared that blacks suffered from a disease called negritude. This he claimed derived from leprosy and caused the skin to be dark and that segregation would