Before the Australian Infant Mental Health Awareness Week 12-16 June next month, I'd like to acknowledge a great loss to the infant mental health arena this past week, Dr. Louise Emanuel. A great speaker and analyst, your contributions will live on in our work.
Suicide Risk Assessment Doesn't Work?! It's about time.
It took them how long to realise this? When in doubt, admit the patient?? Haha! Love it.
Read further for some thoughts, and have a look at the original article published on the Scientific American.
Q&A: Dealing with Grief and Loss
How does one deal with grief and loss? Some have said that it cuts right through the heart. Research has shown that loss impacts the emotional centre in our brain in such a way that we do feel "heart-broken". Hence, it takes many of us ages to recover from real or imagined loss, and considered traumatic by its very definition. Consider the Four Stages of Grief from an attachment perspective.
Q&A: A Nagging Compulsion
Is it OCD or is it not? Check out the suggested reading regarding treatment - Psychodynamic and cognitive-behavioral approaches of obsessive-compulsive disorder: is it time to work through our ambivalence? Kempke S, Luyten P. Bull Menninger Clin. 2007 Fall;71(4):291-311. doi: 10.1521/bumc.2007.71.4.291.