Arizona Psychiatric Society Newsletter, Vol. 5, No. 1, 2014 I appreciate the invitation to address my Arizona colleagues on the psychiatric care of Native Americans. Generally, when we hear the words psychiatric care and Native Americans, it immediately conjures up a...
Clinical Psychiatry News, Nov. 2013 We are in the midst of enormous changes in health care delivery. Implementation of the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will make health care accessible to more people than ever before, and ushers in a cultural shift...
NOVEMBER 2012 • CLINICAL PSYCHIATRY NEWS It’s becoming the exception for a psychiatrist to spend more than 15 minutes speaking face-to-face with patients. This is the unfortunate concomitant of a medical culture that reimburses us more for 15minute medication reviews...
MAPS Journal, Vol XVI, No. @, Autumn, 2006 Ketamine is a pre-anesthetic adjunct first manufactured in 1965. A Schedule III drug, ketamine has accepted medical uses and can be prescribed by physicians, dentists and veterinarians. It is a short-acting dissociative with...
Are you burning out? You're not alone. It's clear that today's doctors just aren't as happy as they could be — or should be. By Barbara A. Gabriel, MA Physicians Practice spoke with a physician renowned for his sound advice and calm demeanor about how you can do the...
Carl Hammerschlag, M.D., Paradise Valley Author, physician, psychiatrist, speaker In Dr. Carl Hammerschlag, the spirits of New Mexico Native Americans still roam after more than four decades. They transformed the son of German Holocaust survivors into a heralded...
Carl A. Hammerschlag is a master storyteller and internationally recognized author, physician, and speaker. A Yale-trained psychiatrist; he has spent more than twenty years working with Native Americans. Now one of the worlds leading proponents of...
By Carl A. Hammerschlag M.D., CPAE (Dr. Hammerschlag is an internationally recognized psychiatrist, author and healer. He is the only physician to hold the CPAE, Speakers Hall of Fame Award. He can be reached at www.healingdoc.com)Our job as speakers is to get...
(B.A. Erickson and B. Keeney, Milton Erickson: An American Healer, April, 2006, pp.270-275)Milton Erickson was the last great psychiatric hypnotist. In an unbroken line from Mesmer to Freud, he taught the critical importance of trance states: those states in which...
PR Newsletter July 05Tom Cruise, the preeminent actor and public spokesperson for Scientology has been in the press recently calling psychiatry a pseudoscience and that psychiatrists have never helped anybody. He says “there is no such thing as chemical imbalance in...
