Friday, April 04, 2008

Some Plugs for New Psychiatry Blogs


Check it out:

Geared towards psychiatry residents, PsychResidentOnline
has resources for exams, and says very nice things about both Shrink Rap and the My Three Shrinks Podcast. I thought I'd give them a plug right back.

And look, they've even got a Cytochrome P450 table for Roy.


The next plug goes to Dr. Peter Kramer, author of
Listening to Prozac and Against Depression (and others). He's now writing a psychiatry blog for Psychology Today called "In Practice" (...not In Treatment). Here's a link to In Practice.
Welcome to the
blogosphere, Peter!

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

Thanks, Dinah.
pdk

Anonymous said...

Thanks. I am a fan of Peter Kramer's books. It looks like his blog has the same sort of intelligent analysis.

Dr. Pink Freud said...

Interestingly, Kramer was addressing the same issues raised in "The Ethics of Artificial Brain Enhancement" in "Listening to Prozac" nearly two decades ago.

DK said...

Oooh, thanks. I'm going to have to email out the resident resource one to my program. Their link to Psychiatry Residents Blog is also useful for those of us with that nasty PRITE problem.

PS, Dinah, I admitted a little budding borderline the other night who overdosed in her therapist's office. Thought of you.

Dinah said...

DK: hmmmm.....I guess think of the fictional TV show character Sophie. I'm trying to live out a career without anyone attempting suicide in my office, if that's okay.

DK said...

Well, yeah, that's what I meant...actually, mostly what I was thinking of was your commentary on that whole plotline...

I think that's a very reasonable career goal! Here's hoping.

moviedoc said...

I built behavenet.com to be what I wish I had when I was a resident: DSM criteria, thousands of definitions, therapeutic as well as recreational drugs, law, ad infinitum.

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