If It Were Physical Pain, It Would Be Called Torture: A Story of Two Young Men
A collection of two separate articles portraying how the seriously mentally ill have been systematically stripped of their human rights.
ARTICLE (March 2015)
Sexual Differentiation of Childhood Play: A Contemporary Psychoanalytic Perspective
This article discusses additional aspects of the relationship between sexually differentiated childhood play, particularly RTP, and gender differences in psychosexual development and functioning. These topics and other aspects of the sexual differentiation of behavior have been under-emphasized in psychoanalytic thought.
ARTICLE (December 24, 2013)
Guns, Violence, and Mental Health: Did We Close the State Mental Hospitals Prematurely?
After decades of increased gun violence and decreased mental health resources, the question proposed whether or not state mental hospitals should remain open.
Psychiatric Times (June 2013)
Psychiatrists’ Knowledge of Their Patients’ Job Functioning
PSYCHIATRIC SERVICE ARTICLE (April 2013) - A letter to the editor outlining the results from an internet survey conducted by the GAP. The survey had a low response rate - however, the article described how mental health clinicians may know less about how to assess work functioning and employment status in the lives of their patients. The author encourages clinicians to become more knowledgeable and urged mental health professionals to receive more training on this topic. More than 23 million working-age Americans have chronic health and mental health problems that diminish their ability to work.
Health Care Reform and Integrated Care: A Golden Opportunity for Preventive Psychiatry
ARTICLE (December 2012)
A Family Practice Model of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
AACAP NEWS (July/August 2012) - Dr. Kramer explains the history and perspective of his family practice approach.
ARTICLE (July/August 2012)
Engaging the Help - Rejecting the Depressed Adolescent
This article illustrates that adolescent depression, a problem of major public health and clinical importance, need not present only with depressed mood, decreased energy, altered sleep or appetite, but can present with irritability, defiance, and impaired school functioning, The authors present a conversation that introduces the patient to therapy and shared decision-making with a depressed adolescent at their first session.
ARTICLE (April 2010)
Implementing Standardized Assessments in Clinical Care: Now’s the Time
ARTICLE (April 2010)
The Efficacy of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
Empirical evidence supports the efficacy of psychodynamic therapy.
ARTICLE (March 2010)
Family Skills for General Psychiatry Residents: Meeting ACGME Core Competency Requirements
ARTICLE (February 2006)
Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder in Adults: Clinical Information for Primary Care Physicians
This article is intended to help the primary care physician (PCP) recognize attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in adults and to assess treatment options. Although ADHD was originally considered a childhood disorder, there is now growing recognition that most individuals diagnosed in childhood continue to have significant symptoms throughout their life cycle.
ARTICLE (2004)
Public Psychiatric Hospitals
A report provided by the Committee on Hospitals summarizing the questionnaire responses received from American psychiatrists on public psychiatric hospitals.
Criminal Responsibility and Psychiatric Expert Testimony
Written by the Committee on Psychiatry and Law
Control and Treatment of Tuberculosis in Mental Health
A report formulated by the Committee on Psychopathology