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Searching for the “Psychiatric Yeti”: Schizophrenia Is Not Genetic

Mad in America

This paper is surprising since Torrey has long argued that schizophrenia is a brain disease to be treated biomedically. Torrey is a psychiatrist and a researcher on schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Fuller Torrey. Nor have any new treatments become available from this research.”

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Could IPT Be a Treatment Option for Autism?

International Society for Interpersonal Psychother

The ability to mentalize is a fundamental capacity required in our social environment and impairments may utilise a risk for clinical psychiatric disorders (A. Individuals on the autism spectrum often experience comorbid depression, social stress, and difficulties in relating to themselves and others. Bateman & Fonagy, 2008).