Healing the mind is about more than just taking medicine. The Age Opinion
Recent research has claimed that antidepressants are no more efficient than placebos in most cases of depression. Patents and healers negotiate a compound of medication,
Six Categories of Illnesses
This paper presents a way of categorising all illnesses and understanding their physical, psychological and social components. http://file.scirp.org/Html/34083.html
Psychosomatic aspects of illness. Patient Management 8:21-28
All illnesses have somatic and psychosocial components. The personality and circumstances patients needs to be taken into account. A checklist of 6 categories of illnesses
Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry: A Personal View
These are retrospective reflections on 25 years of liaison psychiatry. Issues of stress and trauma, violence, biopsychosocial views of medicine and psychotherapy, and the place
Attachment: Back to Basics
This paper presents the essential features of the survival strategy Attachment: its biological, psychological and social features, adaptive and maladaptive manifestations, and treatment for it
Attachment and adaptation symptoms and illnesses. Talk to Grief Volunteers
Overactivity of the survival strategies attachment and adaptation (goal surrender) lead to psychophysiological, psychosomatic, and somatic symptoms and illnesses. Examples are provided. Download: View Document
Attachment and its Ripples, 3d National Conference on Mental Health Aspects of Persons Affected by Family Separation
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Disaster syndrome in Encyclopedia of Stress. Ed. George Fink. New York: Academic Press
Disaster syndrome is the forgotten opposite of fight and flight. It has been known as psychic shock, General Adaptation Syndrome, and Conservation-Withdrawal syndrome. It underlies
Issues with dying patients. Med J Aust 1:433-437
Doctors may deny that their patients are dying and attempt omnipotent means to keep them alive. Fear of death in both patients and doctors resonates
Antimedical feeling. Med J Aust 2:131-132
Though critical attitudes to medicine are common, they are frequently unjustified by facts.Some emotional undercurrents leading to such criticisms are examined. Download: View Document
The human costs to staff from closure of a general hospital: an example of the effects of the threat of unemployment and fragmentation of a valued work structure. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry. 35:150-154
The closure of a major public hospital had significant effects on the medical and other staff. Special stressors were the perceived meaninglessness of the project
