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Psychiatry

            
            
             The prevalence of psychiatric disorders in the human population today is alarmingly high. For instance, major depression afflicts ten to twenty-five percent of women and five to twelve percent of men in their lifetime. Along with that, twenty-five percent of the population suffers from anxiety disorders and the same percentage suffer from some form of substance abuse. The fact is, however, that these statistics do not even begin to cover the myriad of psychiatric disorders found in the world today. These startling rates bring in the increasing need for psychiatrists. Psychiatrists are medical specialists that are specially trained in medical school to diagnose and treat patients with severe mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders. They also order and oversee diagnostic tests and procedures, formulate treatment plans and offer psychotherapeutic and medicinal treatment (Durgin 1). Psychiatry offers an exciting, challenging, and rewarding career; it also requires the most extensive training of any of the professions.
             Since the beginning of civilization, people have attempted to understand the causes of human emotional behavior. Most primitive societies believed that mental illnesses were caused by a demon who took possession of the victim's body. The early civilizations would treat the mental illnesses by trying to make the body so uncomfortable that the demon would want to leave. But, by the late eighteenth century, most people were convinced that mental disturbances were not caused by supernatural powers. Scientists, however, were still unsure whether such illnesses stemmed from physical problems or psychological abnormalities. The nineteenth century saw an explosion of interest in medical theories regarding mental disorders. In 1861, Paul Pierre Broca discovered that tumors led to speech loss, and sparked other scientist's search for the answers to the mysteries of the brain. In the 1940s and 1950s emphasis shifted again, this time to social and physical enviornment.


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1. Freud

... centuries, the subject of psychology went through a revolutionary change. The subject changed from one comprehensive topic to two separate entities. The old style of thinking is called descriptive psychiatry. In the past, descriptive psychiatry was widely used but not very deep or affective. One example of this is a mental patient's evaluation. The examining physicians continued to describe his condition with different combinations ... this important passage, he sets the tone for the time with this quote. "This book marks a notable advance in psychiatry in that it emphasizes sharply the...

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2. Pathology arises out of the existential conditions of life. Discuss.

... the distressed individual to find meaning. It also neglects to consider life beyond the physi l, failing to address the more philosophical questions that abound from our very existence. Existential psychiatry and psychology arose in Europe in the 1940's and 1950's as a direct response to the dissatisfaction with prevailing efforts to gain scientific understanding in ... committed to exploring the experience of reality in a passionate and personal manner. The birth of modern existentialism can be attributed to Martin Heidegger (1889-1976), who's thinking was applied to psychiatry, psycho...

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3. Research on Melatonin

... di-n-propylactic acid, valproate, valproic acid, epilim), is that these medications can be essentially regarded as the only specific drugs that we have in psychiatry today. In other words, if the patient responds unequivocally to these medications, this is usually a clear indication of some form of bipolar illness (Hopkins ... Hallam, K.T., Oliver, J., McGrath, C., Burrows, G.D., & Norman, T.R. (2002). The effect of lithium carbonate on nocturnal melatonin sensitivity to light in healthy adults. Department of Psychiatry: Austin and Repatriation Medical Centre, University of Melbourne, (u...

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4. Childhood Depression

... were based upon those used to diagnose depression and mania in adults as formulated in the Research Diagnostic Criteria (RDC) for adult psychiatric disorders by the Department of Psychiatry of the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri. The Weinberg Criteria for depression in children and adolescents was published in 1973. Misconceptions about Children and ... DA, Benson RS. Summary of the practice parameters for the assessment and treatment of children and adolescents with depressive disorders. American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Journal of the ...

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5. Forensic Sciences

... science is a valuable aid in assisting both the police and the courts in bringing the accused to justice by evidence such as fingerprints, DNA, firearms, shoeprints, forensic psychiatry, and polygraph testing. In around1750 B.C, people in Babylon used finger prints to sign their identity on clay tablets. The first time ink prints were used in China ... the mental health and legal system overlap. AAPL welcomes both the forensic specialist and the general psychiatrist who seeks information and professional support in those domains in which psychiatry an the law share a common boundary. The...

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6. Comparing Fields of Psychology

... either physical or psychological issues. (2) Psychiatrists must go to medical school with very few choices allowed for them. They must take biochemistry, chemistry, and physiology along with others such as psychiatry courses, neuroscience, and behavioral studies. After graduating from medical school, psychiatrists must spend a minimum of three years in residency. Once they have finished their 3 or more years of residency then ... they must take the ACGME (American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology) exam and if they pass, they become board certified psychiatrists and can have their own p...

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7. Forensic Science

... drowned intentionally or not and if their strangulation was accidental or a murder. There are many branches to the world of forensic science. There are: firearms and tool mark identification, forensic psychiatry and profiling, criminal law, personal identification, forensic photography, and crime scene processing. These all require deferent scientists to do, because of how long it takes to do the work. A crime ... , showing a match. If the striations cannot be lined up, then that means that the weapon was not the one used at the crime scene. Next let's examine forensic psychiatry and pro...

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8. anxiety disorder

... disorder. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology. 61, 611-619. Borkovec, T. D., & Ruscio, M. A. (2001). Psychotherapy for Generalised Anxiety Disorder. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry. 62(11), 37-42. Brown, Y. A., Barlow, D. H., & Liebowitz, M. R. (1994). The empirical basis of generalised anxiety disorder. American Journal of Psychiatry. 151, 1272-1280. Durnham, R. C., Murphy, T., Allan, T., Richard, Treliving & Fenton, (1994). Cognitive therapy, analytic psychotherapy and anxiety management for generalised anxiety disorder ... . British Journal of Psychiatry. 165, 315-323. Hunt, ...

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9. The Effects of Lucid Dreaming on the Frequency of Nightmares

... patients were treated through lucid dream training paired with psychotherapy and three were treated through psychotherapy only. Of sixty-eight non-psychotic patients seen in a psychiatry emergency room these six individuals volunteered to participate in our study. The benefits of the skills developed through lucid dream training extended from the alleviation of nightmares ... nightmare frequency"(Zadra & Pihl, 1997, p.54) References Abramovitch, H. The nightmare of returning home: A case of acute onset nightmare disorder treated by lucid dreaming. The Isreal Journal of Psychiatry & Rela...

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