Dr. Paul Putman | Psychiatrist & Author

Psychiatrist and Author of Encountering Treatment Resistance, Rational Psychopharmacology & Rollercoaster

Encountering Treatment Resistance

Solutions Through Reconceptualization

Recent studies suggest that anywhere from 20% to as much as 60% of psychiatric diagnoses are eventually labeled as treatment resistant...

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9/22/23

Split Personality: Common Misperceptions about Mental Health and Mental Illness

In this series we have been reviewing commonly held ideas about mental illness and mental health that, outside of psychiatry, are often...

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6/9/23

Violence and the Mentally Ill: Common Misperceptions about Mental Health and Mental Illness

Are people with mental illnesses more violent than those without them? Many state legislatures have recently acted on the idea that they...

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April 19, 2024

Special Report: Rethinking Treatment Resistance as Impasse, Rather Than Endpoint

The conceptual error we make is confusing treatment resistance with treatment failure. Relabeling a diagnosis as treatment resistant represents a failure of clinical problem-solving when second opinions identify remaining treatment options for more than two-thirds of these patients.