Interesting that there's no mention of L. Ron Hubbard's Mission Earth science fiction series that is a complete satire/send up of the psychiatry industry.

No mention of the dad-nextdoor psychiatrist Dr. Jason Siever portrayed by Alan Thicke on the popular television show Growing Pains that may have helped to calm some of the furor from 1985-1992?

It looks like Ronald Reagan had issues with mental health care even as far back as the 1970s. This incident at UCLA was just a precursor to defunding state mental health care that was already apparently having issues at the time.

The psychiatric use of an ice pick for lobotomies was proposed by physician Walter Freeman, but the idea was roundly decried by other psychiatrists of the time.

Was the shock of the method what drove it into popular culture so solidly?

L. Ron Hubbard attempted to get the American Psychological Association (APA) to approve his book Dianetics shortly after it was published. Early on Scientology had relied on appearing associated with the medical psychiatry complex to burnish its image.

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Skalski, Sebastian, Karol Konaszewski, Paweł Dobrakowski, Janusz Surzykiewicz, and Sherman A. Lee. ‘Pandemic Grief in Poland: Adaptation of a Measure and Its Relationship with Social Support and Resilience’. PsyArXiv, 11 January 2021. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/es3rd.

Heeren, A., HANSEEUW, B., Cougnon, L., & Lits, G. (2021, March 11). Excessive Worrying as the Driving Force of Anxiety During the First COVID-19 Lockdown-Phase in Belgium. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/b34aj

Peris, T. A., & Ehrenreich-May, J. (2021). The Parents are Not Alright: A Call for Parental Mental Health Screening During the COVID-19 Pandemic. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/xzf2c

Hossain, M., Rahman, M., Trisha, N. F., Tasnim, S., Nuzhath, T., Hasan, N. T., … Ma, P. (2020, October 31). Prevalence of anxiety and depression in South Asia during COVID-19: A systematic review and meta-analysis. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/q4k5b

Cognitive Reframing - Technique to let patients look at situations from different perspectives.

• Helps with self talk and behavior
• Helps with narratives about ourselves

This solution based therapy focuses on trying to get people active and engaged with life even when depressed.

It is important to help patients experience those little positive events. These events can help people get back on track.

This is all about solution based therapy. We need concrete ways of fixing our problems.

Vagueness is a cognitive avoidance strategy. It is a way to avoid digging deep.

It is safer for our feelings to stay vague, but that is not where we need to improve.

These highlight cases where you can treat patients without their consent.

1. Irresponsible people with communicable diseases (e.g. Tuberculosis)

2. Psychiatry patients that pose an immediate threat to themselves and/or those around them.

Stix, G. (n.d.). Zoom Psychiatrists Prep for COVID-19’s Endless Ride. Scientific American. Retrieved June 9, 2020, from https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/zoom-psychiatrists-prep-for-covid-19s-endless-ride1/

Animals can have psychiatric issues as well.

Examples include:

• Dolphins that self-mutilate when in captivity
• Horses that can get pathologically compulsive
• Brides that obsess

Humans are the only ones that develop schizophrenia

COVIDConversations: Protecting Children/Adolescents’ Mental Health with Professors Stein & Blakemore. (2020, June 24). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laYyNumPQEA&feature=emb_logo

What can be learned from this case?

• Carefully plan follow up plans with patients (general suggestion about follow up can be enough)
• Ask patient for family information to help them get involved in the follow up process and help increase compliance.

Consider:

• Giving the specific name of a provider to follow up with
• How to contact the facility,
• See if who you provided/recommended is avaliable to take the patient
• Help patient make the appointment or make it on their behalf (with permission)

The test for proximate cause "is whether it was reasonably foreseeable at the time that the negligent act occurred that would result in the consequent harms"

In this case, Dr. Liptzin, having seen Williamson having no history of violence or anything else, could not reasonably foresee that Williamson was going to do something illegal.

This is the case where it was initially ruled that the psychiatrist was the proximate cause for the patient, Williamson, to commit murder. Subsequent higher courts overturned this decision.

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This page could be more reassuring to the many people who have a degree of paranoia which does not interfere with their normal life. In a paranoia scoring scale some items were endorsed by 20-30% of the general population. British Journal of Psychiatry, 2013