موقع اتحاد الإذاعة و التلفزيون المصرى - قطاع الأخبار يقدم اخر و اهم الأخبار العالمية و العربية

Official figures (from CAPMAS according to Ahram) of suicide and deliberate self-harm in Egypt. According to this DSH is very high (104,000) but completed suicide is not (around 5000 per year which is about 6-7 per 100,000). They are saying rates are increasing. Still propagating the Eisenhower myth that Scand. countries have highest suicide rates. Young women attempt suicide more than men.

Psychiatric Tales: Amazon.co.uk: Darryl Cunningham: Books

A short factual summary of the entire case of Ragai Sultan vs. Akram Soliman.

مع ازدياد محاولات الانتحار وجب التنبيه على كل من يقدم على ذلك بان يتوخى الحذر من فشل المحاولة لانه عندها سيواجه عقوبه الحبس لمدة تتراوح ما بين ستة أشهر وثلاث سنوات‏.‏

the process by which a psychiatrist, psychologist, or other mental health clinician mistakes the patient's perception of real events as delusional and misdiagnoses accordingly.

We relied on repeatedly getting their consent every time we filmed with anyone in the hospital."

Mentally ill + AUC graduate + 40 years old + US nationality + Heliopolis.

Sleep deprivation is only a part of it but to pretend that it isn't torture is absurd. It cripples people mentally and, often, physically too.

د.لوزة يعتقد أن احترام حقوق المريض يعني أن تترك مهمة احتجازه بالقوة في المستشفي للشرطة كحل أخير، وأهل المرضي الذين شاركوا في ورشة العمل يؤكدون أن تدخل الشرطة يسبب إهانة للمدمن ولأهله. كما أنهم يعتبرون أن إبلاغ الشرطة عن أبنائهم سلوك غير أخلاقي، ويخلق فجوة لا يمكن إصلاحها بين المدمن وأهله.

Men constituted 93% of cases. In all, 73% of offenders were younger than 40 years old. Schizophrenia cases made up 13% of the total, substance related cases constituted 56% and amphetamine cases alone made up 21%; 10% of cases were antisocial personality disorders, and 51% of cases were classified as having a low education level. Unemployment was found in 34% of cases.

Inside the psychiatric hospitals the world forgot.

Rather than fight in World War II, conscientious objector and Quaker Charlie Lord was sent by the government to work at a mental institution called Philadelphia State Hospital. He secretly took photographs to expose the horrors of the institution. These are his photos.

أحالت الشؤون القانونية بالمجلس القومى للصحة النفسية مدير مستشفى بنى سويف للصحة النفسية إلى النيابة العامة لإعطائه جلسات علاج كهربائى لمريض بدون تخدير، وهو ما يعد انتهاكاً لحقوق المريض النفسى وفقا لقانون رعاية المريض النفسى

Egypt's parliament is due to vote on a law that would reform the treatment of hospital patients. Today thousands of patients, abandoned by their families, are interned in psychiatric hospitals.

Closed mental Asylums in US and UK.

A highly informative article about the case from A-Z.

A long term photo story about the state of mental health for children in Gaza after the recent war on the strip last Dec.2008\Jan.2009

Iraqi psychiatrists say the war and violence has taken a real toll on mental health of the entire nation, and that the number of mental disorders is on the rise across the country.

There is a remote possibility the assessments so far have mistakenly not found an underlying mental problem, but to my mind, if they establish that he is merely a psychopath, he deserves to be put in a normal prison, just like any other criminal.

The most common disorders detected were a major depressive disorder (2.70 percent) and premenstrual dysphoric disorder (2.52 percent).

This study is an initial step for the National Survey of Prevalence of Mental Disorders in Egypt. We conducted a door-to-door household survey of 14640 adults aged 18–64 years in 5 regions

This article examines the biblical narrative relating to the Hebrew Patriarch Jacob (Israel) in the book of Genesis for evidence of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), as defined by the criteria of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV). A close literal reading of the text supports Jacob's provisional diagnosis with chronic PTSD following the disappearance and apparent death of his favorite son, Joseph. T

The contributors to this volume are keenly aware that mental health professionals, while well trained to identify and treat psychopathology, are insufficiently informed or cognizant of human resilience, of how, and of what, intrapsychic, interpersonal, and psychosocial factors are operative in adaptive coping with and recovering from trauma. These authors, several of whom themselves were subjected to severe trauma, address the matter of resilience from the vantage point of their own personal and clinical experiences.

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