Psychiatry

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Psychiatry Blogs

  • Elias Aboujaoude

    Compulsive Acts

    A Psychiatrist's Tales of Ritual and Obsession
  • Global Mental Health

    The history and future of mental health around the world.
  • Steven Schlozman, MD

    Grand Rounds

    Why we do the things we do.
  • Peter D. Kramer

    In Practice

    A Practicing Doctor's Views on Psychiatry and Contemporary Culture.
  • Nassir Ghaemi

    Mood Swings

    A Psychiatrist Surveys the Mind and the Wider World
  • Joe Wegmann

    PharmaTherapy

    The latest trends in mental-health medication management for consumers, professionals, and caregivers.
  • Reel Life

    A shrink looks at men, women, marriage, movies, and more.

Psychiatry Basics

In its ongoing attempts to define, understand, and categorize disorders, and determine the best treatments, the medical specialty of psychiatry is always up against the protean complexity of the human brain.

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Why we're conditioned to blame our partners for our unhappiness.