The word "scientist" means to be creative and innovative. My secret/not-so-secret passion is art in the form of modern paintings, graphics, and rock music.

In 2005 the ipw acute care units were relocated from the rural area of Rheinau into the outskirts of Winterthur, the second largest city in the canton Zurich. The objective of the present study is to answer the question whether relocation has made a verifiable contribution to community based psychiatry ...

We discuss consciousness from evolutionary and developmental perspectives. The expansion of communicative abilities was a necessary step for the emergence of a new type of cooperation based on equality that probably appeared for the first time among nomadic hunter gatherers during the upper Paleolithic era. In turn, this new level ...

The purpose of this paper is to apply an ecological perspective to the conduct of multilevel community-based culturally-situated interventions. After a discussion of the emerging consensus about the value of approaching such interventions ecologically, the paper outlines a series of questions stimulated by an ecological perspective that can guide further ...

The American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (ABPN) is a nonprofit organization founded in 1934 to serve the public interest and promote excellence in the practice of psychiatry and neurology. The ABPN is one of 24 American Board of Medical Specialties boards that have helped develop processes that identify qualified ...

The author offers a perspective on the perceived conflicts of interest that influence scientific collaborations between academic psychiatry and the pharmaceutical industry. The author holds the position that the merits of a particular study should be judged based on the quality of the scientific methodology rather than on the credentials ...

This volume had its origin in a stimulating seminar series devoted to historical perspectives on gender and class in the history of psychiatry. The papers presented outlined a number of important perspectives on the place of gender and class within the history of psychiatry and, more broadly, medicine and society. ...

Every so often in the history of medicine, events occur which in retrospect seem to mark a defining moment. For psychiatry, the decade of the 1950s uses one such 'moment.' On 28 December 1951, J. Sigwald started solo chlorpromazine treatment of a 57-year-old psychotic lady and, thereby, it might be ...

Leo Kanner headed the first child psychiatry division within a pediatric hospital at Johns Hopkins University. In 1935 he wrote the first book in English of child psychiatry which is still in print. His writings include both organic and environmental etiologies. He was an idealist, and he fought for liberal ...

The telling of fairy tales is one way to elicit a child's inner thoughts and feelings, expose conflicts and frustrations, reduce anxiety, and gain mastery over developmental tasks. This paper will review the meaning, usefulness, and importance of fairy tales by discussing three selections from the psychodynamic and developmental perspectives.

In their book, The Perspectives of Psychiatry, Paul R. McHugh and Phillip R. Slavney propose four basic perspectives to undergird and inform the practice of psychiatry. These are the perspectives of diseases, dimensions, behaviors, and life stories. The authors redescribe these four perspectives in terms of their underlying "logics": law-governed ...

While the author recognizes the positive impact community psychiatry has had on postpsychotic patients by the uses of medical management and environmental manipulation, he demonstrates that there is a deficiency in the treatment of lower socioeconomic patients with neurotic illnesses. Specifically, neurotic patients tend to be given supportive therapy and ...

The work of Dr W. Horsley Gantt, a pioneer in psychophysiology, is reflected in seven books and more than 700 publications. In an interview videotaped in 1976, Gantt commented on his work with Ivan Pavlov, his concepts of schizokinesis and autokinesis, and goals for future scientific investigation within one area ...

An account is given of the first year's experience in providing psychogeriatric service to a large urban community. Patients were attended in their homes, in nursing homes and in Homes for the Aged. There was a tendency for the consultant's help to be sought mainly in cases of "disposal" of ...

Liberation Park was founded in Chicago by Santikaro Bhikkhu, a Buddhist teacher who liived in Thailand for many years as a forest monk and studied under Buddhadasa Bhikkhu, a well-known reformer. Liberation Park resulted from Santikaro's intention to return to his roots in America's Midwest to establish a Buddhist Community ...

Thesis (M.Hous.M.)--University of Hong Kong, 2001.

A community psychiatry program was developed for R.C.A.F. personnel and members of their families in the Air Division in Europe. The community consisted of about 20,000 people, divided into four separate units in France and Germany. Officers of the personnel branch, the chaplain branch and the medical branch were organized ...