Welcome to the Maryland Foundation for Psychiatry, Inc. site!
We are a non-profit organization dedicated to increasing public awareness about psychiatric illness and treatment. Our main goal is to act as a bridge between psychiatric medicine and the general public, bringing down-to-earth information to anyone who needs it.
What's New?
July 09, 2008
Media Reviews: Analysis suggests 157 college-age people suffered alcohol-poisoning deaths from 1999 to 2005
The AP (7/8, Forliti) reports that "157 college-age people, 18 to 23, drank themselves to death from 1999 through 2005, the most recent year for which figures are available," according to "[a]n Associated Press analysis of federal records."...Posted by admin at 12:07 AM
July 08, 2008
Media Reviews: Chicago Tribune interviews Stotland about Green tragedy
In continuing coverage from previous editions of Headlines, Judith Graham wrote in the Chicago Tribune's (7/3) Triage column about the incident last week in which Esmin Green died in a Brooklyn, N.Y. hospital while "awaiting admission for psychiatric care."...Continue reading "Chicago Tribune interviews Stotland about Green tragedy"
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Media Reviews: Some experts say emergency departments have become "all-purpose dumping grounds" for mentally ill patients
The AP (7/4, Caruso) reported that "[e]mergency [departments]...have become all-purpose dumping grounds for the mentally ill, with patients routinely marooned a day or more while healthcare workers try to find someone to care for them," experts say....Posted by admin at 12:53 AM
July 02, 2008
Media Reviews: Small study indicates psychotherapy may benefit depressed mothers of children with mental illnesses
MedWire (7/1, Davenport) reports, "Among depressed mothers with children receiving psychiatric treatment, interpersonal psychotherapy reduces symptoms and improves functioning, which precedes improvements in their children," according to a study published in the June 16 online edition of the American Journal...Posted by admin at 01:02 PM
Media Reviews: Psychiatrist takes issue with NYTimes editorial supporting conversion to electronic medical records
In a letter to the editor of the New York Times (6/30, A18), psychiatrist Deborah C. Peel, M.D., founder and chair of Patient Privacy Rights, writes in response to the Times editorial, "Our Pen-and-Paper Doctors", that physicians "are loath to...Posted by admin at 12:56 PM
Previous 5 entries...
Jul 2, 2008: Small study indicates psychotherapy may benefit depressed mothers of children with mental illnessesJul 2, 2008: Psychiatrist takes issue with NYTimes editorial supporting conversion to electronic medical records
Jul 2, 2008: Living With Schizophrenia
Jun 23, 2008: Supreme Court eases rules for challenging denied health benefits
Jun 12, 2008: Data indicate nearly half of all violent deaths are suicides