Author: Kim

PSYCHIATRY & RELIGION (WARNING: CONTROVERSY AHEAD!)

Psychiatry and religion have never been friends. In fact, they haven’t even been mutual neighbors – they are citizens from different planets that don’t really like each other! Each of the streams point fingers at the other for being deceiving,…
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SYMBOLS OF PSYCHIATRY

If you are even remotely connected to psychiatry, you need to know about the symbols that represent this great study. Some of them work as part of logos of psychiatric practices and institutions, while the more adventurous use it to…
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SUPPORTING SOMEONE WITH PSYCHIATRIC ISSUES

You may have come across someone who, according to you, was acting out of societal norms. We are not talking about the “rebel” or your indie teenager who likes to prance around in the desert – we are talking about…
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AREN’T WE ALL MAD?

There is a lovely line from Alice In Wonderland that goes like this: Let’s take the doctors of madness, the psychiatrists, into consideration for a minute. Imagine sitting all day and researching all night on mental disorders affecting your patients.…
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THE MOST ABSURD AND REVOLUTIONARY PSYCHIATRIC TREATMENTS

Psychiatry has almost always been a topic of controversy. Humanity likes physical evidence to prove a point, and this particular field is all about mental structure that can only be observed through shady tests. Psychiatrists over the centuries have come…
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BRANCHES OF PSYCHIATRY

Psychiatry as a scientific study is vast and the list of psychiatric disorders in ever expanding as new diagnoses are bringing important issues to the forefront. To ever say that one is an expert or a know-all within the field…
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PSYCHIATRY AND CREATIVITY

There has been debate to whether psychotics are more creative than your average artist. This is because many people who were deemed to suffer from a mental disorder turned out to create works that a regular mind would never have…
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