scholarly journals Taik-Won Kim, the First Korean Clinical Psychiatrist

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (6) ◽  
pp. 551-552
Author(s):  
Heon-Jeong Lee
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Psychiatrist

Alan Walker Tyson 1926–2000

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oliver Neighbour
Keyword(s):  
Outstanding Contribution ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
Research Fellowship ◽  
Senior Research ◽  
Clinical Psychiatrist

Alan Tyson was a musicologist who made an outstanding contribution to understanding issues of authenticity and chronology in the works of Mozart and Beethoven often based on detailed study of the paper used in sketchbooks and manuscripts. Yet he had qualified as a psychoanalyst and clinical psychiatrist, and until 1969, when he obtained a visiting professorship at Columbia University, musicology was only a scholarly hobby. In 1971, Tyson was awarded a Senior Research Fellowship at All Souls College Oxford and thereafter pursued it as a full-time career. He was elected Fellow of the British Academy in 1978. Obituary by Oliver Neighbour FBA.

Values and values-based practice in clinical psychiatry

2012 ◽  
pp. 32-38
Author(s):  
K. W. M. Fulford
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Psychiatry ◽  
Social Care ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
P Values ◽  
Health And Social Care ◽  
Clinical Psychiatrist ◽  
Multidisciplinary Teamwork

Values-based practice is a new skills-based approach to working more effectively with complex and conflicting values in health and social care. This chapter illustrates some of the ways in which combining values-based with evidence-based approaches supports the day-to-day practice of the clinical psychiatrist, particularly in the context of multidisciplinary teamwork.

The Painted Mind

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alfonso Troisi
Keyword(s):  
Human Mind ◽  
Clinical Findings ◽  
Critical Discussion ◽  
Evolutionary Perspective ◽  
Proximate Mechanisms ◽  
Science And Art ◽  
Full Page ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
Clinical Psychiatrist ◽  
Original Feature

The scientific focus of this book is on the human mind and behavior viewed from an evolutionary perspective. The author is a clinical psychiatrist but his research background ranges from primate ethology to neuroscience, behavioral biology to molecular genetics, and Darwinian psychiatry to evolutionary psychology. Discussion of emotions, cognitive capacities, and behaviors integrates a variety of research and clinical findings that, ultimately, can be reduced to the evolutionary distinction between proximate mechanisms and adaptive functions. An original feature of the book is that it combines science and art. Each chapter is inspired by a painting masterpiece, and a substantial portion of the text is devoted to introducing the reader to the artistic significance of the works and to biographical notes concerning the painters who made them. In addition, each painting is accurately reproduced in a full-page color plate. Description of the evolutionary theories that explain how the human mind works are intermixed with the critical discussion of the perspectives of humanistic disciplines such as philosophy, sociology, religion, or literature. In order to give the reader lively examples of psychological and behavioral patterns, the chapters are filled with stories of people—stories of literary characters, stories of historical characters, and clinical cases.

scholarly journals New perspectives on techniques for the clinical psychiatrist: Brain stimulation, chronobiology and psychiatric brain imaging

2008 ◽  
Vol 62 (6) ◽  
pp. 627-637 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raffaella Zanardi ◽  
Barbara Barbini ◽  
David Rossini ◽  
Alessandro Bernasconi ◽  
Felipe Fregni ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Brain Imaging ◽  
Brain Stimulation ◽  
Clinical Psychiatrist

scholarly journals The discovery of Alzheimer's disease

2003 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-108 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Alzheimer’S Disease ◽  
Alzheimer's Disease ◽  
Severe Disease ◽  
Disease Process ◽  
South West ◽  
Alois Alzheimer ◽  
Memory Disturbance ◽  
The Brain ◽  
Clinical Psychiatrist ◽  
8Th Edition

On November 3, 1906, a clinical psychiatrist and neuroanatomist, Alois Alzheimer, reported "A peculiar severe disease process of the cerebral cortex" to the 37th Meeting of South-West German Psychiatrists in Tubingen, He described a 50-year-old woman whom he had followed from her admission for paranoia, progressive sleep and memory disturbance, aggression, and confusion, until her death 5 years later. His report noted distinctive plaques and neurofibrillary tangles in the brain histology. It excited little interest despite an enthusiastic response from Kraepelin, who promptly included "Alzheimer's disease" in the 8th edition of his text Psychiatrie in 1910. Alzheimer published three further cases in 1909 and a "plaque-only" variant in 1911, which reexamination of the original specimens in 1993 showed to be a different stage of the same process, Alzheimer died in 1915, aged 51, soon after gaining the chair of psychiatry in Breslau, and long before his name became a household word.

Psychiatric Diagnosis and the In-patient Multidimensional Psychiatric Scale (I.M.P.S.)

1972 ◽  
Vol 121 (564) ◽  
pp. 541-545 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. J. Kerry ◽  
J. E. Orme
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Psychiatry ◽  
Psychiatric Diagnosis ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Frame Of Reference ◽  
Factor Analyses ◽  
Main Method ◽  
Functional Psychoses ◽  
Initial Work ◽  
Similar Factor ◽  
Clinical Psychiatrist

An interview with the patient is the main method of examination in the functional psychoses, following which the diagnosis is made. This diagnosis is fundamental in communicating about the patient, in clinical discussions between psychiatrists or in comparing research results. It is essential that the diagnosis should be reliable and valid. Kreitman (1961) has defined reliability as the amount of agreement between psychiatrists examining the same patient, or a comparable series of patients. He also argues that the frame of reference of the examiner should be that of general clinical psychiatry. It should also avoid personality traits in psychiatrists which are associated with different kinds of orientation (Kreitman, 1961). Another problem, that of nomenclature, may turn out to be an argument about the choice of labels. These problems are of great concern to the clinical psychiatrist and are made worse by weaknesses in interview techniques. It is important to look for improvements, and the present study examines the reliability and validity of the In-patient Multidimensional Psychiatric Scale (I.M.P.S.). This is a scale for rating psychotic syndromes following an interview with the patient. These syndromes have been established by repeated factor analyses (Lorr and Klett, 1967). The initial work was based on psychotic American patients, but similar factor syndromes appear from studies of psychotics in other countries (Lorr and Klett, 1968, 1969a, 1969b).

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