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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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3/26/25

APA Annual Meeting Course Available

I'm directing the course " Treatment Failure in Psychiatric Practice: Clinical Reasoning and Management at the American Psychiatric...

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9/28/24

Don’t Psychiatrists Always Prescribe Medicine?  Common Misperceptions about Mental Health and Mental Illness

“What’s the difference between psychiatrists and psychologists?” Most in the know will respond that psychiatrists prescribe medicine....

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October 19, 2024

Treatment Failure vs. Treatment Resistance

Clinicians must not assume the "treatment resistant" (TR) concept matches a concrete reality; there are myriad causes of treatment failure, each unlikely to be the same as many other cases. We must cease using this TR label and improve our problem-solving skills in order to discover and provide better clinical outcomes.

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