Tag: inpatient psychiatric units

Abduction

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The following are some excerpts from my journal about my inpatient experience. Please know that the people in that hospital often reached out to one another in beautiful ways, but overall felt frustrated and stressed due to an oppressive and sterile environment with little positive reinforcement.

New York Times Hosts Debate on Psychiatric Institutionalization

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In the Room for Debate section of this weekend'sĀ New York Times, specialists in ethics, psychiatry, social work, addiction, and human rights hash out their...

Lancet Editorial Points to “Trouble with Psychiatry Trials”

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While clinical trials make up the ā€œbedrock of evidence-based medicineā€ in other specialties, psychiatry faces a number of both ethical and scientific problems related to its use of randomized control trials. According to a new editorial in The Lancet Psychiatry, the field of psychiatry research has particular problems with ethical issues in recruitment, inaccurate classification systems, and controversial placebo comparisons, and then, once the studies are finished, it often remains unclear what the ā€œoutcomes actually mean for peopleā€™s lives.ā€