Category Archives: Psychiatry

‘Many psychiatric conditions fall on the extreme end of a continuum of thoughts and behaviors that, in moderation, are typically adaptive’

Report: …obsessive-compulsive personality disorder (OCPD). It not only involves a desire for cleanliness, but also a preoccupation with details, orderliness, cognitive rigidity, and miserliness – an inability to discard objects and a reluctance to spend money (American Psychiatric Association, 2013). … Continue reading

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What’s The Difference Between Psychoanalysis, Psychodynamic and Psychotherapy?

Link: “Psychotherapy attempts to restore a persons relationship to the social norms and regulations, while psychoanalysis works to restore a person’s relationship to their sexuality. Psychotherapy works to strengthen the ego, while psychoanalysis works to strengthen the subject’s relationship to … Continue reading

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A History of Psychiatry: From the Era of the Asylum to the Age of Prozac

Edward Shorter writes in this 1998 book: * For historians of psychiatry who wrote 30 or 40 years ago—the last time anyone attempted an overview of the discipline—the story seemed relatively straightforward. First there were those wicked biological psychiatrists in … Continue reading

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