Question: If you see a new patient and you’re recommending discontinuation of amphetamines due to side effects (like high anxiety) and it leads to patients considering discontinuing care with you, how much will you work with them and prescribe for the time...
Question: In one of the last lectures I attended, our lecturer expressed his views, that borderline personality disorder to him, isn’t really a personality disorder.. and that he prefers the psychodynamic view of the condition, in that.. it’s more like a...
A few decades ago, the Harvard psychologist Brendan Maher made an unusual claim. People with delusions use the same rational process as non-delusional people. The distinction between being “psychotic” – that is, having delusions or hallucinations – and being...
The diagnosis of ADD is typically made when a person has marked inattention, or distractibility, along with “executive dysfunction”, or disorganization. In adults, there is usually not an inability to sit still in classrooms (mistakenly labeled “hyperactivity”) since...
When I was in psychiatry residency, one of the consistent teachings we received was that we needed to learn to become comfortable with uncertainty. And that we had to transfer that idea to our patients, because life is uncertain. In later years, I wondered how much of...
