This paper examines the benefit or lack of it of antidepressants. Are they more effective than placebos, though bearing in mind that placebos can be effective.
Categories: Biopsychosocial
MBBS, DPM, FRANZCP
Consultant liaison psychiatrist, psychotherapist, traumatologist,
Co-founder and past president Australasian Society for Traumatic Stress Studies,
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This paper examines the benefit or lack of it of antidepressants. Are they more effective than placebos, though bearing in mind that placebos can be effective.
Categories: Biopsychosocial
This paper presents a way of categorising all illnesses and understanding their physical, psychological and social components.
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Categories: Biopsychosocial
All illnesses have somatic and psychosocial components. The personality and circumstances patients needs to be taken into account.
A checklist of 6 categories of illnesses is a pragmatic way of making sure that all types of symptoms and illnesses are covered. The categories are classical physical illnesses; classical psychiatric illnesses; psychophysiological symptoms; reliving of traumas; hysterical illnesses (symbolic of other events); symptoms taken on as identification with a deceased loved person; secondary to any of the above.
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Publication Author: Paul Valent Publication Date: 1979 Categories: Biopsychosocial
These are retrospective reflections on 25 years of liaison psychiatry. Issues of stress and trauma, violence, biopsychosocial views of medicine and psychotherapy, and the place of right brain functioning in emergency departments and consulting rooms is examined.
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Publication Author: Paul Valent Publication Date: 2011 Categories: Biopsychosocial, Philosophical pieces
Disaster syndrome is the forgotten opposite of fight and flight. It has been known as psychic shock, General Adaptation Syndrome, and Conservation-Withdrawal syndrome. It underlies the survival strategy adaptation or goal surrender. The syndrome is examined in all its aspects and ramifications.
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Publication Author: Paul Valent Publication Date: 2000 Categories: Adaptation, Accept & Grieve, Biopsychosocial, Disasters, Survival Strategies
Though critical attitudes to medicine are common, they are frequently unjustified by facts.Some emotional undercurrents leading to such criticisms are examined.
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Publication Author: Paul Valent Publication Date: 1979 Categories: Biopsychosocial, Philosophical pieces
The closure of a major public hospital had significant effects on the medical and other staff. Special stressors were the perceived meaninglessness of the project alongside erosion of medical values. Demoralisation and physical and psychosocial symptoms were surprisingly numerous and significant.
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Publication Author: Paul Valent Publication Date: 2001 Categories: Assertiveness, Combat & Work, Biopsychosocial, Compassion fatigue, Disasters