Background Patients with alcohol use disorder (AUD) are at an increased risk of developing
Wernicke's encephalopathy (WE), a devastating and difficult diagnosis caused by thiamine …

Booth and his colleagues have made an important contribution to the emerging evidence
base that shows education in forensic psychiatry topics can improve attitudes toward the field. …

The misuse and abuse of prescription drugs has reached epidemic proportions in recent
years, yet many individuals still believe, incorrectly, that their use is without risk. This book …

Susannah Cahalan is The New York Times best-selling author of Brain on Fire: My Month of
Madness. Recently she answered some questions for Psychiatric Times about her recently …

An interview with psychiatrist and author Ronald W. Pies, MD is presented in 2023. When
asked on the current status in realizing psychiatry as a humanistic science, he observes that …

Well, hello there! You may have reached for this chapter because you are on call overnight
and an agitated patient has just been brought into your emergency department (ED), and you …

I have no doubt that I learned from world-class supervisors during my residency and fellowship.
From advanced psychopharmacology or the psychotherapeutic technique of Sullivan, …

If you practice psychiatry, your practice is firmly rooted within the sphere of shame. Some of
your patients may come to you having done something they find shameful and that they fear …

In recent years, hardly a day has passed without some news outlet mentioning the latest
opioid epidemic. Indeed, there is a lot to cover: the origins of the epidemic in the promotion of …

In this article, author talks about a section of the Talmud known as Megillah which spread
light on an important exchange that has implications in therapy and psychopharmacology. He …