Dr. Kwakuyi is also a pastor and life coach and provides Christian counseling at Faith Integrated Psychiatry. As director and lead provider at the practice, Dr. Kwakuyi implements his Authentic Healing Process for Depression (AHPD) and utilizes telemedicine to reach clients near and far. ...
Routine databases like the PCR-MN are attractive for research because of their large size, longitudinal perspective, and practice-based information. Several studies have already been conducted using data from the PCR-MN case register. From an epidemiological perspective, etiological, intervention and pro...
The normal workday was described as meaningful and varied, but that without “replenishing themselves”, their own energy declined. Some of the participants emphasized the importance of good private relations that allowed them to share anonymous experiences. Others had experienced renewed energy through ...
Because our family Doctor lied in court and then discharged me and my kids from her practice accusing me of being a bad parent with terrible boundaries as a result of the “parental conflict” that was being caused entirely by my ex. As a result my kids had no family Doctor for 18 mont...
‘Veracity’ remains a key consideration and one which is unlikely to change with technological advances, because secondary data use continues to depend on the data actually being recorded in clinical practice. The other big considerations are data governance and security, which clearly require robust...
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Let me start by outlining my ethnographic credentials and the fieldwork upon which this paper draws. Since 1992 I have spent some 24 months on fieldwork projects in Latvia, most recently 6 months in 2001 exploring changes in psychiatric ideas and practice. As part of this project I sat in ...
Both university clinics and private wellness retreats often place a special emphasis on the need for people to create narratives about their own psychedelic experiences. Patient narrative making has emerged as a core practice of many psychedelic therapies. The narratives people construct about the ...
Dr. Lazarou, of Tampa, FL, emailed me about a recent discussion at a forensic medicine seminar. It had to do with lawyers who proffer expert witnesses without their knowledge. The practice is sometimes described as having a "ghost expert," and it is very irritating to our profession. Such...
also identified in the form of friendly interactions with mental health service providers in the community: As a matter of fact, I ran into my psychiatrist at Captain D's [a restaurant], and we talked for a few minutes. It was just like a regular guy, he wasn't all formal with me....