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Newstalk Radio: Dr Art Malone discusses the urgent need for specialist care for eating disorders

College of Psychiatrists of Ireland

Despite a plan to open 20 new specialist beds for eating disorders by 2023, there remain just 3 beds to cover the entire country. The leaves patients having to be treated in hospitals with no specialist experience. She said, ‘I was definitely a lot worse coming out of that hospital stay than I was going into it.’

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On Psychotherapeutic Literacy

Mad in America

However, more than 20 years later, I stumbled upon that very diagnosis in my patient record, documented during my stay at the nation’s first eating disorders inpatient clinic from the end of 2001 to March of 2002. Later, bipolar disorder took its place. I selected one whose website exuded a sense of bureaucracy.

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Day # 147: Bulimia Nervosa Part 2

Bullet Psych

Today we will continue our current theme of eating disorders as we discuss bulimia nervosa. In part 1 we detailed an introduction, definitions, diagnostic criteria, epidemiology, and pathogenesis. See part 1 for complete definitions and diagnostic criteria. Patients may hide symptoms or present somatic complaints.

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Day # 145: Anorexia Nervosa Part 2

Bullet Psych

Today we will continue our current theme of eating disorders as we discuss anorexia nervosa. In part 1 we detailed an introduction, definitions, diagnostic criteria, epidemiology, and pathogenesis. These medical disorders usually do not manifest as an intense fear of weight gain or disturbed body image.

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“All Real Living Is Meeting”: Brent Robbins on Love, Death, and the Possibilities of Psychology

Mad in America

After grad school, I was teaching at Daemen College when my mother had a mental health crisis and was hospitalized. Our goal was that, by the time the DSM-5 was released, the headlines wouldnt call it the definitive manual of psychiatrythey would call it controversial. I spent a week in the hospital, undergoing testswaiting, thinking.