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The Intensities
The Intensities
These are my reviews of the literature on mood disorders, emotions, the self, adolescent development, and all the stuff that interests me. I work as a psychiatrist and researcher in Melbourne, Australia. In the clinic I mainly see adolescents and young adults with mood disorders.
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Two years on from publication of the DSM-5

In part one I considered the DSM-5 in light of the problems inherent in diagnostic classification. In part two I reflect on how changes to the DSM-5 have affected my clinical practice.


Romantic suicide

An interesting 100 word article by Alexandra Pitman in this month’s British Journal of Psychiatry. Here it is in full:

The concept of ‘romantic suicide’ emerged in the 1770s following the suicide of the teenage English poet Thomas Chatterton, memorialised in Goethe’s 1774…