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...cure. Shocked? FM was too when the Harvard Mental Health Letter reported this month that Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) is an effective treatment for severe depression when drugs and psychotherapy have failed. In ECT, an electric current runs through the brain, inducing a seizure that lasts about 30 seconds. The patient is anesthetized and given muscle-relaxant to prevent injury. ECT often causes memory loss during the 2-3 week treatment period, but most patients completely recover and some have stronger memory than before treatment. “UHS has and will prescribe ECT to patients with treatment resistant depression...
...drugs." And is it? No-at least it needn't be. Specialists in psychotherapy, or talking therapy, say Braydle's style was not only uncommon and wrongheaded but amounts to malpractice. The code of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists forbids not only sex with patients but "any behavior which might be reasonably interpreted by a patient as demeaning or as a sexual advance." Psychiatry will never rid itself entirely of practitioners who use talking therapy to satisfy voyeuristic urges, but it doesn't want to lose the wheat with the chaff. Indeed, the metaphorical couch...
...Esteem”.When did the American public become so reliant upon the advice of others? Actually, it’s not just the Americans. In England the Somerset County Council has introduced a new program in which doctors prescribe self-help books instead of medication for mildly depressed patients. The Weston Mercury , a British local newspaper, quotes Councilman Justin Robinson as saying, “Self-help books have few side effects and invite the patient to empower themselves through reading and learning.”Self-help books are the new Prozac; the pharmacy is being replaced...
...heard, but it can’t really be enjoyed—eventually, one realizes that “The Good, the Bad, & The Queen” is little more than a bad Massive Attack song. There’s some magic here, but only the most patient listeners might unlock...
...house for appointments but then arrived unannounced a few days later. At the same time the best airlines in India will send me a text message if my flight is delayed, my kids' doctor rings a couple of days after a visit to see how his patient is doing, and the staff in a couple of hotels have been so skilful and gracious that I was barely aware of all they were doing to make my day more pleasant. Good experience or bad, though, they never fail to ask me to rate their performance...