|
Articles For Tag "Health Psychiatry" |
|
| # | Date | Link |
|---|---|---|
| #1 | 7/12/2012 | Health Care Costs and Schizophrenia
(Lewis Mehl-Madrona) I reflect on the cost of care for people who are diagnosed with schizophrenia. I muse about a moving lecture by Eleanor Longdon, PhD, who was once a schizophrenic and now is a clinical psychologist. She spoke about her own process at the Hearing Voices Conference in Melbourne, Australia. Eleanor echoed my observations, that the way we manage people who hear voices and suffer this kind of distress is costly and ineffective.1  |
| #2 | 3/30/2011 | Nanglyala Mental Health Center (Lewis Mehl-Madrona) I write about the composite mental health center I have created in previous essays which comes from my and others' experiences working in mental health in New York State. I call it Nanglyala Mental Health Center, in honor of the Russian word for Valhalla, which one can't use, for it actually exists. I propose a thought experiment in changing the culture at NMHC, which I hope someone somewhere will be inspired to do. |
| #3 | 9/4/2010 | Ethics for Mental Health (Lewis Mehl-Madrona) The history of the mental health industry involves the management of people who are socially unacceptable, who are defined as excessively different from the rest of us, who live at the extremes of emotions and behaviors. How we treat these people depends upon the stories we carry about how they came to be the way they are. Contemporary stories are impoverished and lead to mistreatment of those who suffer. |
| #4 | 8/15/2010 | Psychiatrists in Community Mental Health
(Lewis Mehl-Madrona) This article explores the role of the psychiatrist in community mental health. I find myself working in this setting and realizing that almost everyone sees my role as the writing of prescriptions. Medication has become the core of community mental health with twice monthly, 25 minute "therapy" visits. I ask how psychiatrists working in such settings can push back. How can we reclaim psychiatry as the medicine of the soul?1 |
| #5 | 3/4/2010 | A Starter Conversation for Problems with Alcohol. (Ash Rehn) When faced with an alcohol problem many people describe themselves as sick, diseased or alcoholic. This article offers an alternative way of thinking about problem drinking by considering the power of alcohol and the opportunity to change the relationship one has with alcohol. |
| #6 | 10/8/2009 | Integrated Health care – One-Stop Shopping (Press Release) including mental health treatment in medical settings to improve overall health. ...the benefits of including psychologists in primary care and other medical settings and how this integration can lower costs for consumers and insurance companies. |
