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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 dementia exhibit, leading to difficulties in maintaining their care. Agitation, ...
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 not clear how and to what extent they influence the ...
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 with mental health issues. With this in mind, a ...
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 ...
Ageing in Australian Health Systems: A Review March 11, 2019
Ageism refers to discrimination against older persons. It may not appear apparent that this could, let alone should, happen in healthcare systems, but it regrettably does. This narrative review outlines ...

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Personality disorders – the ignored mental health epidemic June 18, 2016
Pancreatic cancer is well known as the cancer with the lowest profile. A poorly understood and minimally researched disease, its dismal prognosis has an aura of untreatability that is instilled from the first years of medical school. I spoke with ...
The Boring Patient August 5, 2015
The Boring Patient Some articles provide their benefit by means of tangible changes to patient care. A few others yield an improvement in quality of life for the clinician as well. Then there are those that improve quality of life purely ...
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 sleep each night in the cold, regardless of the ...
Euthanasia – the problem of capacity November 28, 2015
I once had a 70 year old patient with recurrent serious depressive episodes leading to suicide attempts. She was a “professional suicider”, in that she subscribed to an organisation that clandestinely posted out kits to help people kill themselves. I ...
Analysing Trump: Pitfalls and Professionalism February 21, 2017
No political figure has ever mobilised, and frustrated, the mental health profession as much as President Trump. Prior to Mr Trump’s inauguration, 3 professors of psychiatry called for a ‘neuropsychiatric evaluation’. Shortly after, with the first wave of chaos from executive ...

Sociocultural

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 way to ...
Ageing in Australian Health Systems: A Review March 11, 2019
Ageism refers to discrimination against older persons. It may not appear apparent that this could, let alone should, happen in healthcare systems, but it regrettably does. This narrative review outlines 15 studies that looked at attitudes to ageing amongst nurses, ...
Post Festive Period is Unrecognised Mental Health Dark Spot January 19, 2015
Sydney Morning Herald Opinion Piece – did you know that Christmas isn’t statistically the worst time of year for mental health? The weeks after, however, are another matter. Post Festive Period is Unrecognised Mental Health Dark Spot Share this:EmailLinkedInFacebookRedditTwitter
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 1973, however there is an ongoing fear regarding our vulnerability as ...
The Psychiatrist as Priest March 12, 2015
The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists recently ran their annual elections for college president. Perusing the biographies of the nominees, one stood out in that they stated they were a “committed Christian”. I remember thinking that this ...

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