Humanizing Psychiatry and Alternative Treatment Options
Psychiatry can get a bad reputation as psychiatrists we are relegated to the role of pill pushers. I know many of us do work that way, with a quick conversation and then out comes the prescription pads. On some level, that has been dictated by the insurance industry, which will only compensate a short medication management visit and not compensate at all if medications are not part of the picture. I would like to try and put a more human face to psychiatry and change our role from drug pushers to actual health care providers. To me, humanizing psychiatry includes recognizing that everything that happens to us since we came into this world leaves a mark. Our responses can be adaptive, maladaptive, or just survivalist. Our developing neurobiology is affected [...]