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In Memory of L. Jay Stein
I was thinking of one of the Johnson County judicial mental health referees I often worked with years ago. L. Jay Stein died in 2014. I looked up his obituary the other day and was a little surprised to find I had written a remembrance for him. I’d forgotten it. “I will always remember my…
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Svengoolie Movie: The Tingler!”
We saw the 1959 movie “The Tingler” starring Vincent Price on the Svengoolie show last Saturday. Price plays a prison pathologist, Dr. Warren Chapin, who’s trying to scientifically study a parasitic creature called the tingler (tingles up and down your spine means you’re scared right out of your mind!). It sits on your spine and…
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Old Blog Post on Decisional Capacity Assessment
I just found a blog post I wrote about assessing decisional capacity. It’s over 13 years old and you can tell I was a little frustrated when I wrote it. It was back in the days when consulting psychiatrists were called psychosomatic medicine specialists. Here’s to another blast from the past. Blog from 2011: Thoughts…
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Dirty Dozen on Psychodynamic Psychotherapy in WordPress Shortcode
May is Mental Health Month! Have I said that already? Anyway, this is yet another one of my Dirty Dozen lectures. It’s on Psychodynamic Psychotherapy. It’s in WordPress shortcode. A few pointers: click in the lower right hand corner of the slide if you want to view the slides full size. Use the directional arrows…
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Another Look at the C-L Psychiatry Pecha Kucha
Back in 2018, one of my emergency room staff physicians asked me to do a Pecha Kucha on what a consultation-liaison psychiatrist does. If you know what a pecha kucha is, you can understand why it was challenging for me to put it together and present it. Although you may have seen the video I…
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Reblogging The Good Enough Psychiatrist Latest Post, “How to Love”
I haven’t seen any posts from The GoodEnoughPsychiatrist in a while. This one was posted yesterday-just in time.
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Dirty Dozen on Interpersonal Psychotherapy in WordPress Shortcode
Hey, because May is Mental Health Month, this is another one of my Dirty Dozen lectures. It’s on Interpersonal Psychotherapy. It’s in WordPress shortcode. A few pointers: click in the lower right hand corner of the slide if you want to view the slides full size. Use the directional arrows on your keyboard to click…
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Dirty Dozen on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in WordPress Shortcode
In keeping with May being Mental Health Month, here’s another slide set on psychotherapy. This one is on the basics of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. Once again, it’s in WordPress shortcode. A few pointers: click in the lower right hand corner of the slide if you want to view the slides full size. Use the directional…
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Dirty Dozen on Common Elements of Psychotherapy in WordPress Shortcode
In observance of May being Mental Health Month, this is one of my Dirty Dozen lectures. It’s on the elements that are shared among some of the important psychotherapy methods. It’s in WordPress shortcode. A few pointers: click in the lower right hand corner of the slide if you want to view the slides full…
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Thoughts on Copyright Issues Related to Consultation Psychiatry and Dad Jokes
I want to gas; I mean talk about copyright as it relates to consultation psychiatry or telling dad jokes. By the way, those aren’t the same. I used to teach medical students and residents how to do certain quick bedside cognitive tests for delirium and dementia. Over the years the instructions about how to administer…
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