In an idyllic world, a patient who requires psychiatric medications would only need one medication and it would be very easy to determine...

When reviewing a person's history and their symptoms, a psychiatrist not only listens to the words a person is saying as they tell their...

Psychiatry as a field is still attempting to determine why some people develop depression and others don't. However, for over 50 years,...

Euthymia is a frequently used term in psychiatry that, in my experience, is just not used in everyday conversation. As a result, when it...

Clozapine is an antipsychotic medication that was first synthesized in 1956, but didn't reach clinical recognition for its ability to...

In US culture, it's very common to greet a person by asking, "Hey! How are you?" The goal is not so much to stop and begin an intensive...

Patients with long-standing mental illness have been around for far longer than the medical specialty of psychiatry. I'd feel...

So far on the blog we've covered introductions to psychotherapy, psychiatric clinics, emergency psychiatry, psychiatric hospitalization,...

Psychiatrists can learn an incredible amount about a child's history, average day, and past treatments by engaging in imaginative play...

Caregivers will often ask why a physician completing an assessment will often seem to stop the formal evaluation and begin what looks...