The Egg & I

How an experimental treatment for major depression introduced me to the medical magnet and the return of 'energetic' medicine

"...However, as psychiatry's bible, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders,..."

Aug. 23, 2013 News Feature by Greg Harman

Life After Death

A new life for almost-forgotten author Mary Gavell

"...1967, several months after she died. The editors of Psychiatry: Journal for the Study of Interpersonal Processes were not..."

Aug. 31, 2001 Books Feature by Clay Smith

Daniel Johnston's 'So-Called Illness'

"...We have both been involved with the world of bio-psychiatry. I was lucky enough to survive. I withdrew from..."

May 11, 2006 Postmarks

Beware of Failing Rock

An Austin Couple Says Their Insurer Let Them Down

"...defined as one of the few emergencies in child psychiatry, besides suicide -- and they know that," says Dr...."

June 21, 1996 News Feature by Roseana Auten

Twins, Genes, and Destiny: Lawrence Wright Meets Three Identical Strangers

Texas writer on the study behind the shocking new documentary

"...quack. It was Doctor Peter Neubauer, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at NYU, former president of the Association for Child..."

July 23, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Against Electroshock

"...deep psychological shock, terror undulated underneath my hysterical laughter. Psychiatry calls the high anxiety and hysterical laughter of hysterical..."

July 25, 2006 Postmarks

About AIDS

A new study published in Biological Psychiatry suggests that shyness may not be good for HIV-positive people

"...person does, healthwise? A new study published in Biological Psychiatry suggests that shyness may not be good for poz..."

March 12, 2004 Column by Sandy Bartlett

Whole

This documentary explores the hidden world of amputee fetishism.

"...the film is sure to become required viewing among psychiatry residents during their medical training. For the rest of..."

Oct. 3, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Of Mercy and Mississippi

On the Bookshelf

"...the secrets of the soul." Deciding to specialize in psychiatry, she "studied with a missionary's zeal." Her older brother..."

July 18, 1997 Books Review

I.Q.

"...to ditch her fiance James (a professor of experimental psychiatry nicknamed “The Rat Man” by Einstein and his cohorts)..."

Jan. 6, 1995 Movie Review by Alison Macor

SXSW Offers Brain Chips for Depression

Depression isn’t just sadness, and brain implants aren’t just for Parkinson’s, panelists say

"...decades, there have been breakthroughs in its connection to psychiatry. In 1987, deep brain stimulation (DBS) was discovered, which..."

March 14, 2025 News Feature by Mattea Gallaway

Building Brains and Resilience at SXSW

Researchers illuminate the front lines of neuroscience today

"...Patricio Riva Posse, a neurologist and associate professor of psychiatry at Emory University, calls “treatment-resistant depression.”..."

March 7, 2025 News Feature by Abe Asher

Psychedelics Make You Die Better

At least these academics say so

"...Center, Naylor is part of the biggest change in psychiatry since the late 1980s, when antidepressants like Prozac became..."

Oct. 11, 2024 Features Feature by Brant Bingamon

The Psychedelic Renaissance and the Veterans Leading the Charge

Psychedelic healing around Austin and beyond

"...Gould and LaPree’s struggles with PTSD are not unique...."

July 5, 2024 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Freud's Last Session

Fictional meeting between Freud and CS Lewis makes no breakthrough

Jan. 19, 2024 Movie Review by Steve Davis

UT Teaching Assistants Fired Over Letter Supporting Palestinian Students

Faculty lend their support, citing censorship concerns

"...course, Women & Madness, focuses on the history of psychiatry, with emphasis on institutional harm done to marginalized groups...."

Dec. 15, 2023 News Feature by Lina Fisher

Is Mary Beth Albright Food’s Best Hope?

Food and emotional eating panel packed to the omega-3 soaked gills

"...and research, some from the emerging field of nutritional psychiatry, which suggests diet may be associated with disorders like..."

March 12, 2023 SXSW Post by A. Richmond

SXSW Adds Cheech Marin, Titane Director Julia Ducournau For 2023

Plus the Metaverse and student athlete NIL deals part of the program

"...at Palo Santo Tim Schlidt, and endowed professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience of Trauma and Director of the Center..."

Nov. 15, 2022 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

A Coronasomniac Explores the Link Between Stress and Insomnia

How to catch more restful ZZZs during a pandemic

"...Jaquez, a pediatric psychologist in UT Health Austin Pediatric Psychiatry at Dell Children's Medical Center, points to what happens..."

Oct. 2, 2020 Features Feature by Beth Sullivan

Envisioning the Future of Austin State Hospital

What will it take to turn the former Texas State Lunatic Asylum into a world-class center of brain health?

"...hospitals," said Dr. Steve Strakowski, Dell Med chair of psychiatry and leader of the ASH Redesign team, at the..."

March 22, 2019 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Dell Medical School Team Unveils Plans to Reinvent Austin State Hospital

Rising from the ashes of the aging mental hospital

"...said Dr. Steve Strakowski, the chair of Dell Med's psychiatry department, when presenting the ASH Redesign report to the..."

Feb. 8, 2019 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

The Devil and William Friedkin

The director's journey from The Exorcist to a real exorcism

"...he took, there was nothing that medical science or psychiatry could do."..."

Jan. 5, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Sen. Kirk Watson on the 86th Texas Legislature

“In Texas, we don’t focus on what our needs are; we focus on what we want to pay”

"...by Steve Strakowski, who’s chair of the Department of Psychiatry at the Dell Medical School. We put together a..."

Jan. 4, 2019 News Feature by Michael King

A Son Comes Out, and a Family Comes Together

John Schwartz charts his gay son's journey in memoir ‘Oddly Normal’

"...culture, a series of shifts in the world of psychiatry, questions about bullying, teen suicide and the stress that..."

Oct. 25, 2012 Books Post by Kimberley Jones

After a Fashion

When does Your Style Avatar not jones for Joan?

"...is very intriguing. The Forties obsession with Freud and psychiatry runs through this movie like lava from a volcano...."

April 16, 2010 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Enjoy Your Hair

"...it is impossible for an entire nation to seek psychiatry to treat their dementia. Indeed, I'd bet my Showgirls..."

Aug. 23, 2007 Postmarks

To Your Health

What is the difference between l-glutamine and glutamine, and the same for the other amino acids?

"...and, for a long time, the standard antidepressant in psychiatry. In clinical studies, DL-Phenylphenyl worked faster and with fewer..."

June 23, 2006 Column by James Heffley, Ph.D.

To Your Health

The cause and treatment of Restless Leg Syndrome

"...An article in the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry for July of 2005 (p. 1009-1010) described a "regional"..."

March 3, 2006 Column by James Heffley, Ph.D.

In Favor of Music; Against Electroshock

"...By all rights, Erickson should have been destroyed by psychiatry; his recovery truly is miraculous. Another Austin music legend..."

Jan. 23, 2006 Postmarks

Stop the War

"...for Constitutional Law in New York, writing in Preventive Psychiatry, is the widespread use by the American military of..."

April 13, 2005 Postmarks

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