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Guest Post: Interview with Author of Breakdown: A Clinician’s Experience in a Broken System of Emergency Psychiatry

Bipolar Bandit

What inspired you to write the book, Breakdown: A Clinician’s Experience in a Broken System of Emergency Psychiatry , that got published in October of 2018? . I increasingly realized that there is no opportunity to influence legislators to change the system in the clinical setting. How did you get into this field of work?

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The long awaited second edition Psychopharmacology: A mental health professional’s guide to commonly used medications by Herbert Mwebe

The Critical Blog

Whilst there are various alternative interventions to managing moderate to severe mental health presentations, psychotropic medications remain the mainstay interventions used in various clinical settings. haloperidol or clozapine) might either worsen or improve the person’s physical, mental and psychological wellbeing.

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What makes mental illness stigma so hard to change (and also to study)?

Society of Clinical Psychology

Casados about her recently published article in Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice. This recent Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice article outlines a number of key challenges and limitations in mental illness stigma reduction research, a few of which are summarized here. Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice.