After the last couple behavioral science clinical conferences, I came to the conclusion that psychiatrists have to have an amazing imagination. In order to get a delusional or hallucinating patient to divulge their psychoses, you have to put them at ease. If you look at them like they're crazy when they talk about hearing voices, they'll close up and not talk about them anymore. You have to be totally at ease with even the craziest things that your patient says, so that they feel safe discussing things that they likely know most people don't understand.
The best psychiatrists have to be able to nod sympathetically when they hear about alien observers, ESP powers, and NSA conspiracies (admittedly that last one is more plausible nowadays than it was in the near past). I feel like sci-fi nerds could have the biggest advantage here.
The best psychiatrists have to be able to nod sympathetically when they hear about alien observers, ESP powers, and NSA conspiracies (admittedly that last one is more plausible nowadays than it was in the near past). I feel like sci-fi nerds could have the biggest advantage here.
Question of the Day: Is it ethical to treat a patient on death row for a psychiatric disorder that prevents them from being executed? You cannot be executed if you don't understand that you will die and that your death is the result of a judgement made against you for your actions. So helping someone reach that realization effectively condemns them.
TIL: Psychologists have a 5 year waiting period before they can begin romantic relations with a former patient.
Trichotillomania is the pathological pulling out of one's own hair.
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