Relias

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Question: When it comes to diagnosing, we see that Black/African Americans have higher rates of being diagnosed with schizophrenia, where instead the diagnoses should be PTSD or MDD. We can also have a system of checks and balances in place, where peers review our diagnoses or have peer consultation regarding diagnoses.

Healthcare 52

Healthcare Diversity Psychiatry Schizophrenia 52

Beautiful Voyager

JANUARY 28, 2024

So, I called my psychiatrist’s office and got an answering machine from an evidently-open urgent care clinic. Schizophrenia? Who wanted a social media and marketing consultant who’d spent time in a mental hospital? She is now retired but worked as a self-employed social media consultant and freelance writer. I wondered.

Hospitals 52

Hospitals Mental Health Depression Anxiety 52

Clinical Philosophy

JANUARY 31, 2021

Therapy may look like something which it makes sense to pay for if it’s dressed up as something technical - as if the patient is merely consulting for the therapist’s skill or knowledge. The therapist is selling herself, or some simulacrum of herself; the client is being cheated if this fact is played down or veiled. His tone of voice.

Psychotherapy 52

Psychotherapy Therapist Justice and Corrections Interviewing 52