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  • August 2008

    • Doc, I Think I'm on Reality TV

      New York Times  |  Aug 28, 08 12:17 PM CDT

      Doc, I Think I'm on Reality TV

      (Newser) - In The Truman Show , Jim Carrey's life was nothing more than a reality TV program, with actors playing his friends and family and millions of viewers watching his every move. Those themes of surveillance and artificiality pervade the lives of a growing number of psychiatric patients—people who think they are always on camera, surrounded by performers, the New York Times reports. More »

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      psychology  • surveillance  • psychiatry  • Jim Carrey  • psychosis

    • Drugs Shrinking Psychiatrists' Talk Time: Study

      HealthDay News  |  Aug 5, 08 8:15 PM CDT

      Drugs Shrinking Psychiatrists' Talk Time: Study

      (Newser) - Psychiatry is increasingly focused on prescribing drugs and less on psychotherapy, a study published in the Archives of General Psychology finds. A reluctance by insurance firms to pay for therapy is one factor, HealthDay reports, along with the wide variety of drugs now available to treat various conditions. More »

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      psychology  • mental health  • antidepressant  • psychiatry  • pharmaceutical industry  • medication  • psychotherapy

  • May 2008

    • New Trust Drug: Good for Shyness, Bad for Investing

      BBC  |  May 22, 08 9:46 AM CDT

      New Trust Drug: Good for Shyness, Bad for Investing

      (Newser) - Scientists have created a nasal spray that makes its users more trusting, the BBC reports. Made up mostly of oxytocin, alternatively nicknamed the “love hormone” or “cuddle chemical,” the spray decreases social fears by lowering activity in the amygdala. That should be great news for social phobics; just don’t use it when you’re, say, making investment decisions. More »

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      medical research  • brain  • hormones  • psychiatry  • oxytocin  • trustworthiness

    • Final Doomsday Cultists Exit Russian Cave

      BBC  |  May 16, 08 10:15 AM CDT

      Final Doomsday Cultists Exit Russian Cave

      (Newser) - The final nine members of a Russian doomsday cult holed up in a cave to await the apocalypse (coming this month) have abandoned ship, unable to stand the stench of two people who had died. Thirty-five followers of a self-declared prophet calling himself Father Pyotr climbed into the cave in November and threatened to blow themselves up if police tried to remove them, the BBC reports. More »

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      Russia  • cancer  • psychiatry  • cult  • corpse  • caves

  • April 2008
  • February 2008

    • Blood Test Aims to ID Bipolar Moods

      MSNBC  |  Feb 26, 08 6:17 AM CST

      Blood Test Aims to ID Bipolar Moods

      (Newser) - Researchers at Indiana University have developed a blood test that uses genetic markers to identify a patient's mood state, a discovery that could herald a breakthrough in the diagnosis of bipolar disorder. Widespread tests are still at least 5 years away, but already many are concerned that results would be used to screen employees, military enlistees, or even college applicants, MSNBC reports. More »

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      psychiatry  • bipolar disorder  • Indiana University

    • Bah, Happiness: Gloom Is Normal

      Newsweek  |  Feb 7, 08 8:06 AM CST

      Bah, Happiness: Gloom Is Normal

      (Newser) - Maybe you're feeling a little down—not to worry! Turn to self-help books, psychiatrists, little blue pills, or Dr. Phil to make you happier! But in Against Happiness, melancholy Eric Wilson rails against our culture’s “craven disregard for the value of sadness.” And a growing wave of morose-minded thinkers is joining the anti-happiness bandwagon, Newsweek reports. More »

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      depression  • psychology  • antidepressant  • psychiatry  • Great Depression  • Dr Phil  • self-help  • Zoloft  • Aristotle

  • January 2008

    • Therapists Want End to Britney Diagnoses

      Associated Press  |  Jan 24, 08 8:20 PM CST

      Therapists Want End to Britney Diagnoses

      (Newser) - The media loves to publish experts' diagnoses of Britney Spears, but assessing a patient's mental condition from gossip columns is irresponsible—and it's giving therapists a bad rep, concluded some professionals at an American Psychoanalytic Association summit. "Brains don't have a checkbox," one analyst told the AP, but some media outlets say such opinions are essential to coverage. More »

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      Britney Spears  • media  • paparazzi  • psychology  • mental illness  • psychiatry  • bipolar disorder  • therapist

    • Dr. Phil Cancels Spears Show

      New York Daily News  |  Jan 8, 08 3:54 AM CST

      Dr. Phil Cancels Spears Show

      (Newser) - Celebrity TV shrink Dr. Phil has canceled an interview with Britney Spears' parents, but the reasons are hotly debated. The host says he called off the sit-down because the situation is "too intense" right now, but the Spears family insists they cut him off after he visited Britney in the psych ward last week and spoke publicly about her mental state. More »

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      television  • Britney Spears  • Jamie Spears  • psychiatry  • Lynne Spears  • Dr Phil  • daytime talk show

  • November 2007

    • Serbs Reject Charges of Patient Abuse

      Associated Press  |  Nov 15, 07 2:45 PM CST

      Serbs Reject Charges of Patient Abuse

      (Newser) - Officials in Serbia today called "dark propaganda" a report by a US human-rights group that alleged patients with mental and physical disabilities were systematically abused, and that staff at one facility tortured retarded children. "We may be suffering staffing and financial problems," one administrator said, "but for anyone to say that we are tormenting our patients is a total lie." More »

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      health care  • Serbia  • mental health  • psychiatry  • disability  • Vojislav Kostunica

  • October 2007
  • September 2007

    • Number of Bipolar Kids Skyrockets

      New York Times  |  Sep 4, 07 11:04 AM CDT

      Number of Bipolar Kids Skyrockets

      (Newser) - The number of American children being treated for bipolar disorder soared 40-fold between 1994 and 2003, and has probably risen significantly since then, the New York Times reports. The revelation in this month's Archives of General Psychiatry has stunned psychiatrists and heightened concerns that the condition may be over-diagnosed. More »

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      children  • depression  • psychiatry  • bipolar disorder  • Risperdal  • Seroquel

  • June 2007
  • May 2007