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Psychiatric in sentence

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The controversy has spilled out of the psychology laboratories and psychiatric clinics, capturing headlines, motivating legislative changes, and affecting outcomes in civil lawsuits and criminal trials.
Of course, it is always morally reprehensible, even when it fails to produce lasting psychiatric symptoms.
The public also favors psycho-social approaches, such as talking to someone and getting advice, or help finding friends or a job, rather than drugs, electro-shocks, or admission to psychiatric hospital.
In many developed countries, the decline of mental hospitals has brought psychiatric services into closer professional contact than ever with these and other medical domains.
Of course, computer programs can now process data derived from patients' symptoms and generate psychiatric diagnoses.
Parallel to this shift away from psychoanalysis, the diagnosis of schizophrenia has shrunk dramatically, and standard psychiatric practice in the US now incorporates a narrower definition of schizophrenia than is used in Europe.
In fact, the inclusion of homosexuality as a pathological condition suggests the extent to which psychiatric diagnosis has been shaped by social and political currents.
A study of diagnoses from 1949-1969 at the London psychiatric hospital where I work suggests why: a major shift from diagnoses of anxiety to diagnoses of depression coincided with the introduction of the first antidepressant pill.
So is psychiatric diagnosis akin to pseudo-science?
Until biological markers for psychiatric illnesses are identified, diagnosis will remain in a 19 th century time warp, relying on the equivalent of broad and outdated medical terms like "fever" and "dropsy."
Most psychiatric treatments are effective across a wide range of diagnoses, whatever their origin.
Many of the most common psychiatric disorders that afflict humans are emotional disorders; many of these are related to the brain's fear system.
At least 250 people will receive temporary housing along with “wrap-around” support and psychiatric services.
Dissidents picked up by the police but not formally arrested sometimes wind up in re-education camps or in psychiatric hospitals run by the public security bureau.
Meetings with foreign governments on human rights--during which information is provided on political cases--have been postponed and visits by monitors, including one from the World Psychiatric Association to investigate charges of psychiatric abuse, are on hold.
But misattribution of one's own acts does, in fact, occur in some psychiatric disorders.
Instead, he has pursued his own – and, from a psychiatric perspective, ill-advised – strategy for rebutting questions about his sanity.
In the Soviet Union – and, many argue, in China today – political dissidents would be committed to psychiatric care, precisely to discredit them.
Healthy volunteers invented a hallucination, in order to find out whether the psychiatric system could distinguish genuine mental illness.
The volunteers ended up being admitted to psychiatric institutions, where they behaved normally and claimed no symptoms.
Yet irresponsible political uses of psychiatric medicine still abound.
In the original Rosenhan experiment, the only people who reliably recognized that the “impostor patients” were, in fact, mentally healthy were their fellow psychiatric inmates.
Even Western bosses keen on China, it appears, are finding it hard nowadays to praise Jiang, as he crushes the Falun Gong spiritual movement by imprisoning or confining its members to psychiatric hospitals.
In the wake of the Tiananmen massacre, however, individual dissidents and other political nonconformists were again committed to special psychiatric hospitals on an involuntary and indefinite basis.
As a first step in this struggle, the World Psychiatric Association and national professional bodies should demand direct access to the Ankang network and other places of psychiatric incarceration.
And, while many Parkinson’s patients report significant benefits from DBS, it has shown a greater incidence of serious adverse effects, such as nervous system and psychiatric disorders and a higher suicide rate.
When he sought a lawyer to defend his rights, his mother, who had been made his legal guardian, had him locked up in a psychiatric hospital for seven months.
There are another 165,000 beds in psychiatric hospitals, with some 650,000 hospitalizations per year.
But when he was subsequently detained in a psychiatric hospital, the Russian government refused to allow the lawyer access to his client.
In Europe, same-sex marriage laws and antidiscrimination measures have not been able to prevent exhortations to “kick some faggot ass,” to “shove them in the oven,” or, when the writer is in a good mood, to subject gays to compulsory psychiatric treatment.
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