From the Editor
From the Editor
A psychiatrist/lawyer crossfire
A friendly debate lays to rest lawyers’ misconceptions about psychiatry
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Combination therapy is here to stay
The negative connotation of polypharmacy will fade as combination therapies become the new standard of care
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A psychiatric manifesto
This living document will be continuously revised with your suggested additions and modifications
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Connecting the dots: Psychiatrists are virtuosos
Connecting a patient’s clinically relevant biologic, psychological, and social ‘dots’ is an elegant mix of art and science
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Thick chart syndrome: Treatment resistance is our greatest challenge
Effective solutions for treatment-resistant patients can be substantially cost-effective for society at large
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Are psychiatrists more evidence-based than psychologists?
One survey found that only 15% of respondents with serious mental illness received care that was considered at least minimally adequate
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Health care debate: Do psychiatrists support the public option?
I decided to formulate a hypothesis and then test it by polling a sample of CURRENT PSYCHIATRY readers
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Does psychiatric practice make us wise?
Psychiatrists develop different neural circuits, compared with surgeons, radiologists, or internists
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Paradigms shift rapidly in antipsychotic treatment
Clozapine, known as having the highest efficacy, had the lowest mortality risk in an 11-year study of 66,881 patients
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Let me tell you how I feel… (Things that nag at me)
Why have mentally ill outpatients become ‘clients,’ as if mental healthcare was a business transaction?
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The $1.2 billion CME crisis: Can eleemosynary replace industry support?
The urgent question about sustaining CME has become: where will funding come from if not from industry?