Raising the Quality of Psychopharmacology Clinical Psychiatric Practice

2022 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-6
Author(s):  
Ira D. Glick ◽  
Richard Balon ◽  
Charles DeBattista
Keyword(s):  
Psychiatric Practice

scholarly journals Psychoanalytic listening: Between unconscious and conscious

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 13
Author(s):  
Limas Sutanto
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Skill ◽  
Psychiatric Practice ◽  
Psychiatric Residency ◽  
Teaching Methodology ◽  
Mutual Understanding ◽  
Mental Process ◽  
Structured Model ◽  
Psychoanalytic Listening

Psychoanalytic listening can be deployed for enhancing the quality of clinical psychiatric practice. As a clinical skill, it should be teachable throughout the years of psychiatric residency. Nevertheless, the teaching of such important faculty is difficult due to the scarcity of a systematic, relatively structured model that can be used as an underpinning of learning that capability. This article is aimed at fulfilling a part of that lack of teaching methodology. The model offered in this article describes psychoanalytic listening as a mental process initiated by the therapist, which then goes through the patient too, which involves a continuing oscillation of unconscious apprehension and conscious comprehension. This rhythmic proceeding of affectively experiencing and rationally considering will expectedly bring about a mutual understanding between patient and therapist which then facilitates further clinical enterprises.

Patterns and Quality of Treatment for Patients With Schizophrenia in Routine Psychiatric Practice

2005 ◽  
Vol 56 (3) ◽  
pp. 283-291 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joyce C. West ◽  
Joshua E. Wilk ◽  
Mark Olfson ◽  
Donald S. Rae ◽  
Steve Marcus ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Psychiatric Practice ◽  
Quality Of Treatment

Accountability in Psychiatry

1980 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 191-206 ◽  
Author(s):  
John L. Schimel
Keyword(s):  
Patient Care ◽  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
Professional Responsibility ◽  
Psychiatric Practice ◽  
Legal Problems ◽  
Quality Of Patient Care ◽  
Commit Suicide

The high cost of external controls of the practice of psychiatry in time, money, and quality of patient care is examined. The author argues that in the end, the most reliable and useful source of accountability in the practice of psychiatry is the practitioner's conscience and sense of professional responsibility. Sigmund Freud believed that the scientist's dedication to truth was the ultimate safeguard as well as the source of inspiration. Clinical examples illustrating ethical, moral and legal problems encountered in psychiatric practice are offered, with particular attention to the issues involved when there is a potential for the patient to commit suicide or homicide.

Patterns and Quality of Treatment for Patients With Major Depressive Disorder in Routine Psychiatric Practice

2005 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joyce C. West ◽  
Farifteh Duffy ◽  
Joshua E. Wilk ◽  
Donald S. Rae ◽  
William E. Narrow ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Major Depressive Disorder ◽  
Depressive Disorder ◽  
Psychiatric Practice ◽  
Major Depressive ◽  
Quality Of Treatment

scholarly journals Psychoanalysis: Science or Nonscience?

1986 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 103-104
Author(s):  
Carola B. B. Mathers
Keyword(s):  
Psychiatric Practice ◽  
Practical Application ◽  
Scientific Status ◽  
Understanding Of Science ◽  
The Relationship

The debate regarding the scientific status of psychoanalysis is considered by many psychiatrists to be a sterile one; this leads to a polarisation of views in which those in favour of psychoanalysis, feeling themselves to be losing, retreat to the position of stating that meaning is more important than scientific status, while those against argue that because psychoanalysis is unscientific it is meaningless and thus should not remain part of our psychiatric practice; the debate being reformulated as psychoanalysis: sense or nonsense? The consequence of giving up this debate is that it allows us also to give up the struggle to define science adequately to ourselves, and to question the relationship between psychiatry and science. Our understanding of science reflects directly on the quality of our research; this is particularly relevant to research in the practical application of psychoanalysis. Before we consider our understanding of science, however, we should consider our epistemological theories, or how we know things.

Immunoferritin localization of intracellular antigens in positively stained frozen sections

1978 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 168-169
Author(s):  
K. T. Tokuyasu
Keyword(s):  
Surface Tension ◽  
Water Surface ◽  
Thin Layers ◽  
The Other ◽  
Positive Staining ◽  
Frozen Sections ◽  
The Past ◽  
Ultrathin Frozen Sections ◽  
Definition Of

During the past investigations of immunoferritin localization of intracellular antigens in ultrathin frozen sections, we found that the degree of negative staining required to delineate u1trastructural details was often too dense for the recognition of ferritin particles. The quality of positive staining of ultrathin frozen sections, on the other hand, has generally been far inferior to that attainable in conventional plastic embedded sections, particularly in the definition of membranes. As we discussed before, a main cause of this difficulty seemed to be the vulnerability of frozen sections to the damaging effects of air-water surface tension at the time of drying of the sections.Indeed, we found that the quality of positive staining is greatly improved when positively stained frozen sections are protected against the effects of surface tension by embedding them in thin layers of mechanically stable materials at the time of drying (unpublished).

Lithography below 100 nm

1983 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
pp. 96-99
Author(s):  
L. D. Jackel
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Distribution ◽  
Electron Beam ◽  
Electron Scattering ◽  
Electron Beam Lithography ◽  
Substrate Material ◽  
Local Electron ◽  
Electron Dose ◽  
Positive Resist ◽  
Exposure Process

Most production electron beam lithography systems can pattern minimum features a few tenths of a micron across. Linewidth in these systems is usually limited by the quality of the exposing beam and by electron scattering in the resist and substrate. By using a smaller spot along with exposure techniques that minimize scattering and its effects, laboratory e-beam lithography systems can now make features hundredths of a micron wide on standard substrate material. This talk will outline sane of these high- resolution e-beam lithography techniques.We first consider parameters of the exposure process that limit resolution in organic resists. For concreteness suppose that we have a “positive” resist in which exposing electrons break bonds in the resist molecules thus increasing the exposed resist's solubility in a developer. Ihe attainable resolution is obviously limited by the overall width of the exposing beam, but the spatial distribution of the beam intensity, the beam “profile” , also contributes to the resolution. Depending on the local electron dose, more or less resist bonds are broken resulting in slower or faster dissolution in the developer.

Convergent Beam Electron Diffraction

1978 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 304-315
Author(s):  
G. Lehmpfuhl
Keyword(s):  
Electron Diffraction ◽  
Diffraction Pattern ◽  
Crystal Surface ◽  
Diffraction Spot ◽  
Crystal Thickness ◽  
Large Area ◽  
Electron Microscopic ◽  
Additional Information ◽  
Microscopic Investigations

Introduction In electron microscopic investigations of crystalline specimens the direct observation of the electron diffraction pattern gives additional information about the specimen. The quality of this information depends on the quality of the crystals or the crystal area contributing to the diffraction pattern. By selected area diffraction in a conventional electron microscope, specimen areas as small as 1 µ in diameter can be investigated. It is well known that crystal areas of that size which must be thin enough (in the order of 1000 Å) for electron microscopic investigations are normally somewhat distorted by bending, or they are not homogeneous. Furthermore, the crystal surface is not well defined over such a large area. These are facts which cause reduction of information in the diffraction pattern. The intensity of a diffraction spot, for example, depends on the crystal thickness. If the thickness is not uniform over the investigated area, one observes an averaged intensity, so that the intensity distribution in the diffraction pattern cannot be used for an analysis unless additional information is available.

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