CLINICAL PEARLS: RESPONDING TO PATIENTS WITH SUICIDAL THOUGHTS
Journal of Psychiatry Reform Vol 4 #2, November 2018 Author Alan Eppel MB, MRCPsych, FRCPC With this issue the Journal of Psychiatry Reform introduces a new section entitled Clinical Pearls. Clinical pearls are succinct items of information de..
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GOING BENEATH THE SURFACE OF PHYSICIAN BURNOUT
Vol 4 #3 Ana Hategan, MD,* Associate Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, Division of Geriatric Psychiatry, Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University..
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PHYSICIAN BURNOUT: THE ICEBERG MODEL
See accompanying article- Going Beneath the Surface of Physician Burnout, December 9, 2018.
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Network Meta-analysis of Antidepressants: A Bridge Too Far?
Volume 5 # 1 January 2019 Alan Eppel MB, FRCPC McMaster University ABSTRACT Network Meta-analysis (NMA) is a powerful statistical tool that expands the methods of pairwise Meta-analysis. In this overview NMA is explain..
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“What’s A Nice Girl Like You Doing In A Place Like This?”
Vol 5 #2 Sandra Coombe Back in the ’60’s there was a TV commercial in which a dejected-looking woman was peering inside her very dirty oven when Mr. Clean sprang up, and asked, “What’s a nice girl..
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Personal Recollections of Donald Winnicott
Vol 5 # 3 Barbara Barnett MPhil Barbara Barnett was educated at the London School of Economics. She completed her studies in Social Work and worked in the Child Welfare Services in England after the Second World War. She rece..
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SHOULD PSYCHIATRISTS PRACTICE PSYCHOTHERAPY?
Vol 5 # 3 Alan Eppel, Pri Weerasekera, Karen Rowa INTRODUCTION Mental health services are likely to undergo major transformations in the next 5 to 10 years due to widespread social, economic and technological changes. Despite lar..
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What Is The Best First Line Antidepressant?
Vol 6 # 1 Alan Eppel Many SSRIs and SNRIs are considered effective as first line choices for the treatment of Major Depression. However the short term nature of randomized controlled trials does not allow the identification of th..
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ICD 11 Takes Centre Stage
Vol 6 #2 Alan Eppel In May of 2019 the World Health Organization adopted the eleventh edition of the International Classification of Diseases, ICD 11. This is the first revision of ICD in 30 years and was developed with wide-ranging i..
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Application of the ICD-11 classification of personality disorders
Vol 6 #3 Authors Bo Bach1 Email authorView ORCID ID profile and Michael B First2 BMC Psychiatry201818:351 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-018-1908-3 © The Author(s). 2018 This article is distributed under the terms of the Creati..
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