Media portrayals don’t help misconceptions about disorders such as bipolar, schizophrenia and borderline personality disorder. So what do these terms actually mean?
Current MDMA trials could lead to the drug moving from the fringes of mainstream psychiatry to being recognised as a mainstream treatment option.
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Current trials suggest MDMA could used to treat psychiatric disorders as a prescription medicine by 2021. But there remain a number of unresolved patient / doctor issues to be considered.
Many people have criticized Donald Trump’s mental health. More than two dozen psychiatrists weighed in from afar, and another has briefed members of Congress. Here’s why that might not be good.
Australia’s investment in community mental-health services is subordinate to our focus on care provided by public and private hospitals.
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Recently announced changes to private health insurance reinforce the primacy of hospitals for mental health issues. This is despite many inquiries recommending better community mental-health care.
Bradley Cooper’s character in Silver Linings Playbook had bipolar disorder.
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There are several problems with the recently released guidelines for diagnosing autism. But the fundamental issue is that we’re striving for diagnosis first, and help later.
There’s a fierce debate about whether it’s ethical for mental health professionals to diagnose politicians they haven’t personally examined.
People across Africa don’t have access to mental health professionals. A new community-based approach in Zimbabwe is proving effective.
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There is typically no fever, no broken bone, no lesion to examine under a microscope when evaluating mental illness. Diagnosing disorders therefore is hard. A new way to classify disorders could help.
Alternate realities don’t just exist in politics – and not all falsehoods are lies. Distortions of the truth can range from a normal part of human nature to pathological.
Onlookers the world over are trying to understand Trump’s behaviour.
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Recent Queensland reforms – due to take effect in March 2017 – do not include legislative safeguards for a certain group of people with mental illness.