Psychiatry News

Thursday Editorial: Finally, some light in the tunnel of addressing opioid deaths
Florida Times-Union
At the same time, Florida is facing a $20 million cut in federal funding for services for mental illness and substance abuse treatment, the Sun Sentinel reports. Florida's traditionally ... Other agencies that will be heavily involved include the ...

State Medical Board Fines, Disciplines Doctors
Hartford Courant
The board also reprimanded a Danbury psychiatrist in connection with false Medicare claims he made between 2009 and 2015, according to a consent order with Dr. Anton Fry. The consent order said that Fry ... DPH Staff Attorney David Tilles told the ...

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Opposition politician continues to criticise Singapore's judicial system
The Independent
He has since been remanded in the Institute of Mental Health for two weeks for psychiatric observation. Mr Ravi in ... In January 1981, Khoo acquitted JBJ and his co-defendant of all charges except a single charge of fraud involving a cheque for $400.

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AlterNet
A Depressing Psychological Profile: My Meeting With Donald Trump Shows His Obvious Impairment Has Only Gotten ...
AlterNet
In 2016, the precariousness of Trump's mental health was clear to all with eyes to see, but like extras in a remake of “The Emperor's New Clothes,” reporters averted their glances. The day after the election, they were all in a state of ... lately ...

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The Guardian
Morning mail: Trump told 'call evil by its name'
The Guardian
Under the Mental Health Act 2014, an authorised psychiatrist may make an application to the tribunal to perform a course of ECT on a patient if they do not have the capacity to give informed consent and the psychiatrist is satisfied there is no less ...

Daily Mail
Sinead O'Connor accuses her manager of identity theft in new bizarre Facebook post from hospital
Daily Mail
She tells Garfield her lawyer will be contacting him and Edgewater Police on her behalf regarding his 'fraudulent behavior, theft of my identity, and his facilitation of my suicide four times, as well as his failure to alert my family I was missing two ...

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MovieWeb
Ingrid Goes West Review: Single White Female for the Instagram Obsessed
MovieWeb
Ingrid Goes West has ample ammunition to target the facade of commercialism and narcissism. It needed to dig deeper regarding the mental health aspects of the story. Ingrid is an unbalanced, mentally ill character. Her desperate antics are funny to a ...

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Man told to preach a little less loudly: Lyndhurst police blotter
cleveland.com
Psychiatric situation, Mayfield Road: At 12:35 p.m. Aug. 5, an officer ... It was learned that the driver, a Richmond Heights man, 26, was dealing with a mental health issue. The other two ... The woman was notified of the problem through a bank fraud ...

Daily Mirror
Can you trust a psychiatrist and his diagnosis
Daily Mirror
A psychiatrist would listen to you, maybe even talk to your family, and then magically say “you have got depression” or “No, I don't think you have a mental illness.” There are no blood tests, no brain scans, ... The man may say he hears voices, but ...

HuffPost
What If A President Is Too Impaired To Lead? | HuffPost
HuffPost
Based on his public behavior, ever more psychiatrists assert that Donald Trump is emotionally impaired. In doing so, they raise the gravest of questions: what are ...

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OCRegister
Battering rams at the door: An FBI raid from the other side
OCRegister
Tonmoy Sharma has a huge job; chief executive of Sovereign Health, a mental health and addiction provider with a footprint throughout Southern California, several states and India. Still, Sharma considers himself a man under siege, a David battling ...

Syracuse.com
Officals: CNY mental health worker got $2.3K in worker's comp to ...
Syracuse.com
Rome, NY -- A Central New York Psychiatric Center employee claimed $2,286 in worker's compensation for a back injury while kayaking on vacation in Puerto ...
Officals: CNY mental health worker got $2.3K in worker's comp to kayak in CaribbeanNewYorkUpstate.com

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TheChronicleHerald.ca
Dr. AJ: the moving basis of mental health diagnosis
TheChronicleHerald.ca
Information in this column has been sourced and paraphrased from Diagnosisgate: Conflict of Interest at the Top of the Psychiatric Apparatus, by Paula J. Caplan, Vol. 7, Issue 1, APORIA and from A brief historicity of the Diagnostic and Statistical ...

Times of Malta
Cannabis could cause schizophrenia, psychiatrist cautions
Times of Malta
Schizophrenia is considered a chronic and severe psychiatric condition. Any mental health hospital, including Mount Carmel, dedicates 70 per cent of its efforts on inpatient care of the condition. Schizophrenia is present in about one per cent of the ...

The Guardian
Eating disorders in men rise by 70% in NHS figures
The Guardian
Dr William Rhys Jones, of the Royal College of Psychiatrists' eating disorders faculty, said: “Pressure for body perfection is on the rise for men of all ages, which is a risk factor for developing an eating disorder. Images of unhealthy ... Half of ...

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Las Cruces Sun-News
Review of mental health system needed - Las Cruces Sun-News
Las Cruces Sun-News
It's been four years since Governor Martinez dismantled New Mexico's behavioral health system, falsely accusing providers of fraud , freezing federal Medicaid ...

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New York Post
Influential psychiatric group abandons Goldwater Rule - BioEdge
BioEdge
The American Psychoanalytic Association says members are free to comment on public figures, notably Donald Trump.
Psychiatry group tells members they can ignore 'Goldwater rule' and comment on Trump's mental healthSTAT
Position Statement Regarding Psychoanalysts' Providing Commentary on ... - American Psychoanalytic AssociationAmerican Psychoanalytic Association
July 6th, 2017 Dear Colleagues, A poll of the Executive Councilors was ... - American Psychoanalytic AssociationAmerican Psychoanalytic Association
Psychiatric Times -American Psychiatric Association
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Justice Department Amps Up War on Health Care Fraud
Courthouse News Service
Earlier this month, the Chicago office participated in the largest health care fraud enforcement action in the Justice Department history, and the Chicago office recently secured 10 criminal convictions as part of a multi-year investigation into Sacred ...

Los Angeles Times
No, Goldwater Rule has not been overturned. Psychiatrists are still prohibited from commenting on mental state of Trump
Los Angeles Times
According to the American Psychiatric Assn., psychiatry "is the branch of medicine focused on the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of mental, emotional and behavioral disorders." The American Psychoanalytic Assn. describes psychoanalysis as a method ...

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THOUSANDS FILE FEDERAL COMPLAINT AGAINST GAY ACTIVISTS FOR 'MASS DECEPTION AND FRAUD'
Catholic Citizens of Illinois (press release)
Haynes also told Church Militant that the American Psychiatric Association's manual also recognizes “transgender identity fluctuates, and the vast majority of gender dysphoric minors will eventually accept their natal sex.” Just recently ... Cretella ...