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What do psychiatrists think about when they approach a new patient? How do they decide what treatments to recommend?
In Shrink Rap, we aim to demystify psychiatry and make it transparent by describing, in plain English, what we think about. We strive to avoid medical jargon and to communicate in a straightforward way about what we see, how we formulate patients' difficulties, and what treatments we have to offer.
Psychiatry remains full of shortcomings. We don't know what causes some people to become mentally ill while others remain well. We don't know why certain treatments work for one person while they make another person with the same condition even worse. Scientific studies have only begun to touch on what we need to know, and as individual practitioners, we often still struggle to diagnose and treat psychiatric problems. Our understanding of psychotherapy is inexact. The medication strategies we use are sometimes motivated by a desperate desire to help a tormented patient after the tested treatments have failed. There are so many more questions to ask and so few for which we have answers.
The shortcomings of our field notwithstanding, we hope you'll enjoy reading about our work as much as we enjoy doing it. Psychiatry has evolved a great deal over the past few decades, and we hope you'll find this journey into today's world of psychiatry illuminating.
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Psychiatry, Practice, Psychiatrists, Psychotherapy, PsychotherapistsTimes
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"MELISSA ADAMS is the nicest pediatrician a child could have. She softly sings the alphabet while examining a toddler and talks football draft picks with the teenage boys."
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Includes bibliographical references and extensive index.
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[from front jacket:]
Three psychiatrists from different specialties provide frank answers to questions such as:
*- What is psychotherapy, how does it work, and why don't all psychiatrists do it?
- When are medications helpful?
- What happens on a psychiatric unit?
- Can Prozac make people suicidal?
- Why do many doctors not like Xanax?
- Why do we have an insanity defense?
- Why do people confess to crimes they didn't commit?*
Based on the authors' hugely popular blog and podcast series, this book is for everyone who is curious about how psychiatrists work. Using compelling patient vignettes, Shrink Rap explains how psychiatrists think about and address the problems they encounter, from the mundane (how much to charge) to the controversial (involuntary hospitalization). The authors face the field's shortcomings head-on, revealing what other doctors may not admit about practicing psychiatry.
Candid and humorous, Shrink Rap gives a closeup view of psychiatry, peering into technology, treatments, and the business of the field. If you've ever wondered how psychiatry really works, let the Shrink Rappers explain.
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Josh first saw Dr. Smith because he was depressed, and Dr. Smith clarified that Josh was suffering from a mental illness. His symptoms were not simply manifestations of adolescent angst, trouble adjusting to college, or stress. Dr. Smith recommended both medication and psychotherapy for Josh's depression. \n
You'll remember that Josh had a rather complicated story. He became depressed and was treated with an antidepressant. This medication quickly caused him to become hypomanic, that is, his mood and energy level were elevated too far above the normal, a process known as switching. Josh was then taken off the antidepressant and given a mood stabilizer, and for quite some time, he did well, but then an unfortunate series of events transpired. Josh played soccer in the cold, got the flu, and went into a smoke-filled room, and all these things triggered a terrible asthma attack. Josh needed to take steroids for his asthma, and this medication induced a full-blown episode of mania during which Josh became psychotic and dangerous and was admitted to a psychiatric hospital, where he was treated with even more medications. \n
In this chapter, we borrow Josh to explain the issues a psychiatrist thinks about when prescribing psychotropic medications.
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