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Videogames – friend or foe? January 12, 2016

Psychiatry has had an unusual relationship with videogames – and despite several hundred studies on the topic, it is still ...
Flight of Ideas – Death of a Definition March 12, 2015

The term “flight of ideas” is commonly known, but do you know what it actually means? Or where it comes ...
Neuroimaging in Schizophrenia April 14, 2015

(The following includes content originally published in mindcafe)

The role of neuroimaging in schizophrenia detection and management is an exciting ...
The Carer Appraisal Scale – a new way to communicate. July 18, 2017

One of the commonest complaints of mental health services is a perceived failure of communication between caregivers and clinicians regarding those ...
Carbamazepine for Dementia – the forgotten, and superior, alternative to antipsychotics July 1, 2015

Behavioural and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia (BPSD) is a catch-all phrase referring to one of many behaviours that patients with ...

Elder Abuse – A National Legal Response June 30, 2017

I work in an old age mental health service. We have a patient, a 77 year old woman, who used to live in her family’s backyard in a tent. She would ...
Flight of Ideas – Death of a Definition March 12, 2015

The term “flight of ideas” is commonly known, but do you know what it actually means? Or where it comes from? The disturbing answer to both of these questions explains ...
Personality Disorders in Geriatric Inpatients – A Prevalence Study March 12, 2015
How common are personality disorders in the elderly? I looked at a “captive” audience, the general medical inpatient, in order to try to estimate this. Community studies generally hover around the 10 to 15% mark, which I used to think ...
Internship: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly August 16, 2015

A little bit of advice to those newly starting their medical careers…

(Published in the Australian Medical Association Newsletter May 2015.)

I had no real interest in medicine when I ...
Psychotherapy at the APA April 14, 2015

(This article is a review of psychotherapy-related workshops and lectures at the American Psychiatric Association’s May 2014 conference. It involves content originally published at mindcafe)

The APA has a reputation ...

What the Germanwings crash says about mental health. March 30, 2015
I was flying back home whilst reading about the loss of Germanwings flight 4U 9525. The plane I took had on board about as many people who were lost. Speculation regarding terrorist implications had by then rapidly given ...
The Role of the Father September 3, 2016

A famous study on parenting styles had two groups of psychiatrists being shown the same video clip. In the clip, a man is seen seated reading a newspaper, whilst his child is ...
Asylum seekers and mental health – a resolvable social problem April 14, 2015

It is difficult to maintain a consistent attitude, as a nation, to the issue of asylum-seekers. The extremes of “White Australia” are long gone since its final dissolution in ...
Mental Health Resources October 10, 2015
The Internet is rife with well-intentioned mental health advice, supposed resources, and many, many pitfalls. Much of the difficulty is the reality of psychiatry, in that the lack of objective evidence regarding psychiatric illness (save treatment responses and, ...
Elder Abuse – A National Legal Response June 30, 2017

I work in an old age mental health service. We have a patient, a 77 year old woman, who used to live in her family’s backyard in a tent. She would ...

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