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John Godbold Mrs.Sumerlin English 26 January 2015 Psychiatry overview Campbell, Andrew W. "Psychiatry Today and Tomorrow: Primum Non Nocere (First Do No Harm)." Alternative Therapies in Health & Medicine July 2014: 8+. Alt HealthWatch. Web. 4 Feb. 2015. Psychiatry to many appears to be somewhat of a clam and sober specialty but it has evolved more slowly because it has not had the technical advances of other medical fields. Not much has changed in the last 159 years: the treatment remains a psychiatrist’s couch and the patient describing positive and negative events in life and symptoms. To be a psychiatrist you have to under stand the brain and how it works. And to do that you must have lots of medical training because the brain alone contains …show more content…

Problems treated range from being irritable and feeling frustrated to losing touch with reality. Some psychiatrists run general practices, treating patients with a variety of mental disorders. Others may specialize in working with certain types of therapy or kinds of patients. To be in this profession you need to start preparing you self for college and medical school while you are still in high school. You can also start learning about human behavior by taking psychology, sociology, and history classes. Frank, Christina. "Stalkers, Serial Killers, And Other Sociopaths: Dr. Park Dietz Explorers The Dark Side Of The Mind." Biography 4.6 (2000): 82. MasterFILE Premier. Web. 29 Jan. 2015. This is a psychological review of the stalkers, serial killers, and other sociopaths in Newport Beach, California. In the authors opinion stalking, killing and, the act of being a sociopath is much a much more complex subject than it would seem from accounts in the media. Stalking is associated with ever condition known to man, from psychosis to personality disorders. In one case a stalker whose crime has actually been linked to a rare physical illness. The author of the article Dr. Park Dietz who is a renowned psychiatrist who has consulted on many criminal cases in Newport Beach, California explores the mind of stalker, serial killers, and other sociopaths in which they have encountered

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