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...convert. Every Valentine’s Day can potentially turn sour, even if you’re with someone you care about. As a senior in high school, my boyfriend and I went out to a Mexican restaurant and were seated at the table next to his psychiatrist. Last year, my boyfriend at the time insisted we “do something special” for Valentine’s Day, and it wasn’t until we were well up Garden Street that I realized “something special” was “a trek...
...Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and the sense that this is some kind of primitive treatment/punishment rather than a medical procedure that is very effective and often has fewer side effects than medication.” Mireya Nadal-Vicens, a tutor in Mather House and psychiatrist at Massachusetts General Hospital who performs ECT says “Psychiatrists don’t often talk about it because people consider it a brutal treatment, but people don’t understand that the treatments are not painful...If I had a treatment-resistant family member with severe depression...
...course fee elsewhere. For instance, she might work on finding a boyfriend who wishes to bring her sexual pleasure in “female terms”—that shouldn’t be too hard, given how progressive most modern Harvard men are. Alternatively, visiting a psychiatrist to try to pinpoint the reason she feels the need to talk about her menstrual cycle with people she runs into on the street might be useful. Visiting a strip club is not going to help her become a fuller person—unless she’s looking...
Imagine you're a new mother and your baby cries more than she sleeps. You're worn out, which doctors misdiagnose as postnatal depression. Along comes a psychiatrist who promises to make you feel better. Ignoring the impact of a difficult baby, he sheets home your troubles to repressed feelings of resentment toward your mother. His methods seem odd. He tucks your hair behind your ears, dries your tears and hugs you. He suggests walks on which he holds your hand and spills about his own life. One time, out of nowhere, he asks you what your clitoris looks like...
...early instalment in Rebekah Beddoe's calamitous encounter with psychiatry, which she recounts in Dying for a Cure (Random House; 346 pages). While the memoir focuses on how psychotropic drugs sent her mad during the early 2000s, Beddoe's account of her dealings with the eminent Melbourne psychiatrist she calls "Max Braydle" also shines an unflattering light on the talking component of the profession. "Terrible," says Jon Jureidini, head of psychological medicine at the Adelaide Women's and Children's Hospital, of the methods Beddoe ascribes to Braydle. "Sadly, people who read this book will think that is the alternative...