Tag Archives: depression

What is Med Ed?

When it comes to medications for mental illness, my 25 years of experience tells me that you can only assume one thing with reasonable accuracy: people have strong feeling about taking medications for mental illness. I’m a professor of psychiatry and a pharmacist. A lot of what I do is meet with families to speak with […]

The Clinical Ethnographic Interview: opening up the diagnostic process

“Depression questionnaires were never set up for the world’s population. They were set up in the West,” says Denise St Arnault, professor in the University of Michigan School of Nursing. For decades researchers have shown the degree to which there is cultural variation in the experience of mental illness, and yet clinicians continue to mostly […]