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Papers by Allen Dyer

Journal of Forensic Sciences, Oct 13, 2022

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With the surge in popularity and utility of the interdisciplinary approach to cancer care, findin... more With the surge in popularity and utility of the interdisciplinary approach to cancer care, finding psychiatry\u27s role can often times be difficult. This may be in part because psychiatry\u27s role is not yet specifically delineated or standardized in such a team-based approach. This case explores the challenges of learning what this role may be and how to tailor one\u27s psychiatric care to meet a patient\u27s needs, all from the perspective of a general psychiatry resident. A possible issue in actualizing these two skills is the apparent medicalization of distress, which is discussed, as is the added issue of the relative naiveté of one in training. This article hopes to aid general psychiatrists and specifically general psychiatry residents in realizing their importance in the interdisciplinary cancer care team setting and provide some examples of how one can be an effective and useful member in such a team. © SLACK Incorporated

Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, Sep 14, 2020

International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies, 2020

TOFIQ Journal of Medical Sciences, 2016

Key words: medical education, medical curriculum, Iraq, quality, assessment, ethics, professiona... more Key words: medical education, medical curriculum, Iraq, quality, assessment, ethics, professionalism

Global Mental Health Ethics, 2021

The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this p... more The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use.

Rhode Island medical journal, 1968

© 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Psychiatry is a profession defined and guided by well-e... more © 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Psychiatry is a profession defined and guided by well-established norms dating back to the Hippocratic Oath and carefully delineated by the standards of modern biomedical ethics and professionalism. Key principles, such as beneficence (confidentiality), autonomy (informed consent), nonmaleficence, and justice provide bases for clinical judgment in specific contexts. Commercialism in health care introduces potential conflicts for the professional, whose primary allegiances are to the patient and those served. Several new challenges are faced by psychiatrists and other professionals in the twenty-first century. These include telemedicine, electronic health records, and social networks/social media

Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, 2021

Depression is a word used to describe a mood. It is also a diagnosis. The same word, depression, ... more Depression is a word used to describe a mood. It is also a diagnosis. The same word, depression, straddles many meanings across time and from place to place. It is at once a medical illness and a universal human experience. Jonathan Sadowsky's Empire of Depression (2021) traces the evolution of the concept of depression from ancient descriptions of melancholia to modern diagnostic criteria. Writings at least as far back as Hippocrates distinguish the sadness that occurs after a loss from the more pervasive and persistent unhappiness that came to be known as melancholia and then depression. This history is more than a chronicle; it draws on a number of sources to illustrate and illuminate how depression has been variously understood and particularly how psychiatrists attempt to help people suffering from a recognizable but complex disorder.

Attempts to define terrorist typologies often emphasise the importance of socio-political and psy... more Attempts to define terrorist typologies often emphasise the importance of socio-political and psychological factors and the distinction between lone and group actors. However, these attempts are pr...

Innovations in Global Mental Health, 2021

Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 2020

Tradition and Discovery: The Polanyi Society Periodical, 2016

Poteat often spoke of our modern predicament as "madness." His use of this term was not strictly ... more Poteat often spoke of our modern predicament as "madness." His use of this term was not strictly technical, but he meant it most emphatically. Modern thought created an alienation of self from lived-through experience, which had to be recovered through careful examination of the assumptions of the regnant culture. Polanyi and the post critical enterprise offered a perspective and certain tools for this recovery of self, which may properly be understood to be "therapeutic" both in the metaphorical sense and with the understandings that might be offered by the psychoanalysis and psychotherapy.

Tradition and Discovery: The Polanyi Society Periodical, 1984

Comprehensive Treatment of Chronic Pain by Medical, Interventional, and Integrative Approaches, 2012

Neuromodulation, 2009

Publisher Summary This chapter focuses on the various scientific, technological, humanistic, ethi... more Publisher Summary This chapter focuses on the various scientific, technological, humanistic, ethical, and economic aspects of applying neuromodulation technologies. The neuromodulation encompasses various technologies including neurostimulation, neuroaugmentation, neural prosthetics, and functional electrical stimulation (FES). Neuromodulatory devices are used for a growing number of indications including pain (ischemic, visceral, and neurogenic), angina pectoris, peripheral vascular disease, epilepsy, urinary disorders, spasticity from spinal cord injury, cerebral palsy, or multiple sclerosis, and diabetes. Some of the psychiatric disorders that have to be carefully considered before comprehensively assessing the patients include anxiety, depression, psychosis, and somatoform disorders. Such patients may have difficulty expressing their feelings directly or even recognizing them and so, if the physician can respond to the underlying feelings, it may be easier than responding to the behavior itself. Ideally everyone who could benefit from these or other treatments should have access to them. Unfortunately, the uninsured or underinsured population has very limited opportunity for benefiting from expensive neuromodulation techniques. Individuals who are at the end stage of their lives and could potentially benefit from neuromodulation are often passed over as undeserving of this opportunity for relief because of the costs incurred for little time left. As with so many ethical issues, value is often calculated as a cost–benefit analysis.