Tag: Mental disorder
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Domenico Fargnoli The public does not have the correct perception of the psychiatric emergency involving Italy which has ties to a more general situation. Writes Amanda Pustilnik (University of Maryland) “Today, our largest psychiatric hospitals are prisons. (…) The state prisons spend about $ 5 billion to incarcerate inmates suffering from mental illness, who are…
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Neuroleptic Drugs and Violence Catherine Clarke SRN, SCM, MSSCH, MBChA. and Jan Evans MCSP. Grad Dip Phys. August 19th, 2012 Introduction We address the fact that the treatment for Severe Mental Illness (SMI) is neuroleptic medication. One has to give significant thought about the involvement of neuroleptic medications with the tragic circumstances of…
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Gli articoli di Allen Frances, interessanti come testimonianza del clima in cui vive la psichiatria americana, ovviamente non vanno presi per oro colato ,ma vanno letti in senso critico. La discussione potrebbe vertere su cosa si debba intendere per prevenzione che non credo si possa ridurre ad uno screening diagnostico di tipo descrittivo. L’eliminazione del…
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