Love and other drugs — wrapping discussions from #RANZCP2019
From substance use and post-traumatic stress to matters of love and death, the 2019 Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists annual c... Read more
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Insight or intrusion? Data and determinants of mental health at #RANZCP2019
Insight or intrusion? That was the question posed about the use of data in a digitised world, and what it might mean for health, health care, health s... Read more
Data and drivers of doctors’ mental health — burnout and #MH4Docs at #RANZCP2019
Marie McInerney writes: Rates of depression, anxiety and suicide among doctors have made headlines in recent years, underscored by high profile campai... Read more
When the dead are as present as the living: psychiatry and the pathologising of culture
Culture, diversity and mutual learning were the key themes of this year’s annual meeting of Australian and New Zealand Psychiatrists, and the pr... Read more
Tackling loneliness: a public health challenge for mental health advocates?
A powerful session at the recent Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists’ Congress in Cairns focused on loneliness and its part in m... Read more
Calls to end the stigma as ‘seismic shift’ beckons for eating disorder treatment
Eating disorders have been put front and centre of the Morrison government’s mental health platform, with dedicated treatments available under M... Read more
“I cry at the suffering that does not need to be”: Bearing witness to harsh asylum seeker policies
Introduction by Croakey: Despite working in psychiatry for 20 years, Dr Emma Adams wasn’t prepared for what she saw when she first went as a vol... Read more
Food, mood and a call to action on #AusVotesHealth
When it comes to mental health, you are what you eat, and the government must intervene to promote healthier diets through taxation and legislative re... Read more
Call for psychiatrists to speak out on climate change as Australia heads to polls
Climate change, species extinction and habitat loss pose a risk to mental health and psychiatrists have a duty of care to speak out on the “radi... Read more
Reflection and reform — psychiatrists step up advocacy on the eve of #AusVotesHealth
As both major parties jostle for poll-driven primacy in the mental health space, Australia’s psychiatrists are urging a deeper commitment to men... Read more
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