Psychiatry and the geriatric syndromes - creating constructive interfaces [Editorials]
Integrating mental and physical healthcare is difficult to achieve because of professional and organisational barriers. Psychiatrists recognise the problems resulting from fragmentation of services and want continuity of care for patients, but commissioning and service structures perpetuate these problems. One way forward may be to follow the syndromic model employed by geriatricians as a means of avoiding over-emphasis on diagnosis above the pragmatics of implementing multi-component, coordinated care. Commissioners need to be made aware of the overlap and complementarity of skills possessed by old age psychiatry and geri...
Source: Psychiatric Bulletin - April 3, 2017 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Thacker, S., Skelton, M., Harwood, R. Tags: Editorials Source Type: research
Epistemic injustice in psychiatry [Editorials]
It has been argued that those who suffer from medical conditions are more vulnerable to epistemic injustice (a harm done to a person in their capacity as an epistemic subject) than healthy people. This editorial claims that people with mental disorders are even more vulnerable to epistemic injustice than those with somatic illnesses. Two kinds of contributory factors are outlined, global and specific. Some suggestions are made to counteract the effects of these factors, for instance, we suggest that physicians should participate in groups where the subjective experience of patients is explored, and learn to become more awa...
Source: Psychiatric Bulletin - April 3, 2017 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Crichton, P., Carel, H., Kidd, I. J. Tags: Editorials Source Type: research
Schizophrenics can be good mothers too [Reviews]
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Source: Psychiatric Bulletin - January 31, 2017 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Double, D. Tags: Reviews Source Type: research
Deconstructing the OSCE [Reviews]
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Source: Psychiatric Bulletin - January 31, 2017 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Cooper, D. Tags: Reviews Source Type: research
Waking Up: Searching for Spirituality without Religion [Reviews]
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Source: Psychiatric Bulletin - January 31, 2017 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Nour, M. M. Tags: Reviews Source Type: research
Motivational Interviewing: A Guide for Medical Trainees [Reviews]
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Source: Psychiatric Bulletin - January 31, 2017 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Day, E. Tags: Reviews Source Type: research
A Clinician's Brief Guide to the Mental Capacity Act (2nd edn) [Reviews]
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Source: Psychiatric Bulletin - January 31, 2017 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Curtice, M. Tags: Reviews Source Type: research
A Practical Guide to the Mental Capacity Act 2005: Putting the Principles of the Act into Practice [Reviews]
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Source: Psychiatric Bulletin - January 31, 2017 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Curtice, M. Tags: Reviews Source Type: research
College Members whose deaths were reported at Council meetings between October 2015 and October 2016 [In memoriam]
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Source: Psychiatric Bulletin - January 31, 2017 Category: Psychiatry Tags: In memoriam Source Type: research
Klaus Minde MD FRCP(C): Formerly Chairman, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, McGill University, Montreal [Obituaries]
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Source: Psychiatric Bulletin - January 31, 2017 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Graham, P. Tags: Obituaries Source Type: research
Anthony Carl (Tony) Kaeser FRCP, FRCPsych: Consultant in Old Age Psychiatry, Basildon sector, Thameside Community Healthcare NHS Trust [Obituaries]
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Source: Psychiatric Bulletin - January 31, 2017 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Lowe, M. Tags: Obituaries Source Type: research
Dudleigh Oscar (John) Topp FRCPsych, MBBS, MFCM, DPM: Formerly Principal Medical Officer, HM Prison, Brixton [Obituaries]
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Source: Psychiatric Bulletin - January 31, 2017 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Topp, J. Tags: Obituaries Source Type: research
Correction [Correction]
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Source: Psychiatric Bulletin - January 31, 2017 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Correction Source Type: research
Epistemic injustice or safety first? [Correspondence]
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Source: Psychiatric Bulletin - January 31, 2017 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Zarroug, M. M., Hubbeling, D., Bertram, R. Tags: Correspondence Source Type: research
The correlation between mental disorders and terrorism is weak [Correspondence]
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Source: Psychiatric Bulletin - January 31, 2017 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Khoshnood, A. Tags: Correspondence Source Type: research
