Real Psychiatry

I realized that I have a combinatorics thread runningthrough my blog across several subjects. I have been interested in combinatorics since I sent an email to RobertSpitzer on the various combinations of diagnostic criteria.  His only comment was “Interesting...

I had one of my typical work-related nightmares last night.  Three years into retirement and I am still anxiousabout work. I think it is an interesting exercise in how human consciousnessworks and how it led to the above graphic so here goes.
As usual it starts out in a medical center, in this casewhat appears to me a medical unit in a large hospital.  I have never been in this specific setting before,but it has a similar arrangement to many units where I have worked.  There is a walled off...

I have posted in the past about the similarities betweenrheumatology and psychiatry.  Theclassification systems are the same, there is a lot of diagnostic flexibility,all of the conditions are very heterogenous, the underlying pathophysiology isnot clear...

The United States iscurrently suffering through the self-inflicted crisis of electing anauthoritarian administration.  Civil,legal, international, and diplomatic standards are routinely ignored and thereseems to be no clear overriding strategy other...