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psychiatry stories: 28 news summaries

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Hasan Sought to Turn in Patients for 'War Crimes'

Senate committee delays briefing on
Fort Hood rampage

Nov 16, 09 4:25 PM CST
(Newser) - Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan repeatedly tried to have his patients prosecuted for “war crimes,” raising the issue with Army authorities a final time on Nov. 2—just 3 days before the Fort Hood massacre. In a breach of doctor-patient confidentiality, Hasan asked superiors if he could legally pass... More »

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psychiatry • war crimes • Islamic extremism • Carl Levin • Senate Armed Services Committee • Fort Hood • Fort Hood shooting • Nidal Malik Hasan

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  Blame 'Vicarious' PTSD 

Trauma is infectious, Essig writes, and therapists can catch it

Nov 6, 09 10:03 AM CST
(Newser) - When Todd Essig learned the Fort Hood shooter “was an Army psychiatrist who treats post traumatic stress disorder, himself on the cusp of deployment, I thought, ‘I’m not surprised.’” Why? Because there is a documented transfer of trauma disorders from sufferers to caregivers, dubbed “... More »

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psychiatry • PTSD • mass shootings • Iraq war • Afghanistan war • trauma • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder • Fort Hood • Nidal Malik Hasan

(Newser) - A Swiss psychiatrist has revived research into the use of LSD to treat emotional disorders after decades of neglect, Der Spiegel reports (unable to resist the headline "Tune In, Turn On, Cheer Up"). Albert Gasser, the first person to study the psychiatric use of the hallucinogen in 35... More »

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psychiatry • LSD • psychotherapy • psychedelic drugs • Albert Hofmann • hallucinogens

Long Buried, PTSD Emerges in WWII Veterans

1 in 20 surviving vets affected

Jul 16, 09 12:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - For many World War II veterans, decades-old memories of war aren’t as deeply buried as they once believed. The veterans administration estimates that 5% of the 2.5 million US World War II vets suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder, the Cleveland Plain Dealer reports. Older vets came of age... More »

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veterans • psychiatry • Department of Veterans Affairs • World War II • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

Shrinks Single Out Next PTSD:
Bitterness

Over-the-top reactions to being thwarted may signal mental illness

May 20, 09 8:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - Some psychiatrists believe embitterment is so common and so destructive that it should be classed as a mental illness, the Los Angeles Times reports. Sufferers are described as people who have worked hard at something like a job or relationship, only to be transformed into angry, pessimistic, brooding individuals consumed... More »

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psychiatry • behavior • stress • mental illness • revenge • PTSD • psychiatric disorders • emotion

(Newser) - Kansas City’s Zack Greinke has been, without question, the best pitcher of this young baseball season. The 25-year-old didn’t allow a run in his first three starts; his 0.50 ERA and 5-0 record are both major-league bests. After losing most of the 2006 season to his fight... More »

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depression • psychiatry • Kansas City Royals • baseball • Zack Greinke

OPINION

 Obama Plays Shrink 
 to Europe: Dowd 

President brings "psychological finesse" to the G20

Apr 5, 09 9:34 AM CDT
(Newser) - Therapists could learn a thing or two from the "psychological finesse" Barack Obama showed in Europe this week, Maureen Dowd writes in the New York Times. Obama's upbringing taught him how to "slip in and out of different worlds," and that legacy was on display... More »

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Barack Obama • psychiatry • Nicolas Sarkozy • Maureen Dowd • Silvio Berlusconi • Dmitry Medvedev • psychologist • George W. Bush • G20

 Remorseful Fritzl: I Want 
 Only the Hardest Punishment 

Daughter's testimony convinced him to confess, incest dad says

Mar 27, 09 1:12 PM CDT
(Newser) - Josef Fritzl describes intense feelings of remorse in the first interview since his trial, the Telegraph reports. Fritzl, who abruptly switched his plea to guilty in the middle of the proceedings, said his decision was prompted by hearing his daughter describe in court how he imprisoned and habitually raped her:... More »

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psychiatry • abuse • incest • Josef Fritzl • Elisabeth Fritzl • imprisonment • life sentence • Howard Stern Grid

 Cruise, Lauer Grip and Make Up 

Calmer interview follows 2004 Today showdown

Dec 15, 08 11:40 AM CST
(Newser) - Tom Cruise and Matt Lauer met on Today for the first time since an infamously tense 2005 interview, and this time, things were more relaxed, People reports. The pair chatted about their previous meeting. "I came across as arrogant," Cruise said, adding, "that's not the person I... More »

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Scientology • Tom Cruise • psychiatry • Matt Lauer • Today show • interview

Electric Therapy Can Relieve Depression

New treatment using currents can help
when meds don't

Oct 21, 08 12:11 PM CDT
(Newser) - People with major depression that doesn't respond to medication may get relief from a therapy that uses magnetic pulses to stimulate the cortex, the Wall Street Journal reports. In a clinical trial, transcranial magnetic stimulation worked in about a quarter of patients—about twice the success rate of patients on... More »

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depression • psychiatry • mental health • psychiatric disorders • psychotherapy

Doc, I Think I'm on Reality TV

Psychiatrists see Truman Show delusion so often it's got its
own syndrome

Aug 28, 08 12:17 PM CDT
(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... More »

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psychiatry • psychology • surveillance • psychosis • Jim Carrey • delusion • paranoia • The Truman Show • Truman Syndrome

Drugs Shrinking Psychiatrists' Talk Time: Study

Cost-conscious managed care also seen behind decline

Aug 5, 08 8:15 PM CDT
(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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psychiatry • antidepressant • mental health • psychology • pharmaceutical industry • medication • psychotherapy

New Trust Drug: Good for Shyness, Bad for Investing

Natural hormone makes people dumb with their money in experiment

May 22, 08 9:46 AM CDT
(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;... More »

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

Final Doomsday Cultists Exit Russian Cave

Stench of corpses trumped need
to await apocolypse

May 16, 08 10:15 AM CDT
(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... More »

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cancer • Russia • psychiatry • corpse • cult • caves

Don't Expect a 20th Nervous Breakdown

Term goes the way
of smelling salts as experts seek accuracy

Apr 15, 08 10:11 AM CDT
(Newser) - “Nervous breakdown” has long been a catchall for psychological conditions as varied as depression and schizophrenia. But as psychiatric patients emerge from stigmatized isolation—and as the DSM fattens—scientists are chucking the antiquated term in favor of a more descriptive and accurate taxonomy. “I haven’t heard... More »

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depression • psychiatry • schizophrenia • mental illness • bipolar disorder • psychiatric disorders • nervous breakdowns

Blood Test Aims to ID Bipolar Moods

Could be used to diagnose disorder, though ethical issues abound

Feb 26, 08 6:17 AM CST
(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... More »

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psychiatry • bipolar disorder • Indiana University • psychiatric medicine • Alexander Niculescu III • manic mood • depressive mood • cyclothymia

Bah, Happiness: Gloom Is Normal

Sadness is a normal emotion, not a disease, cries anti-joy crowd

Feb 7, 08 8:06 AM CST
(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... More »

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

Therapists Want End to Britney Diagnoses

Identifying mental illness through media inaccurate, dangerous

Jan 24, 08 8:20 PM CST
(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... More »

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

Dr. Phil Cancels Spears Show

Situation 'too intense,' he claims, but Brit's parents charge he
violated singer's privacy

Jan 8, 08 3:54 AM CST
(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... More »

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

Serbs Reject Charges of Patient Abuse

Government disputes group's claim
that disabled are neglected, tortured

Nov 15, 07 2:45 PM CST
(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... More »

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

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