From the Editor
From the Editor
Parsimonious pharmacotherapy
In some cases, a single psychotropic can effectively treat multiple disorders
From the Editor
Polypharmacy subtypes: The necessary, the reasonable, the ridiculous, and the hazardous
The spectrum of polypharmacy ranges from the rational to the irrational
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Folie en masse! It’s so tempting to drink the Kool-Aid
It’s hard to resist endorsing widely accepted false beliefs
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Two vastly underutilized interventions can improve schizophrenia outcomes
Wider use of clozapine and long-acting injectable antipsychotics can reduce the duration of untreated psychosis and improve quality of life
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Shattering dogmas
The best way to rid our specialty of unproven tenets is to seek scientific basis for everything we do
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Recognizing the unheralded heroes of psychiatry
Those who quietly contribute to advancing psychiatry deserve our gratitude
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Are some nonpsychotic psychiatric disorders actually psychotic?
Fixed false beliefs are characteristic of many disorders not labeled as psychotic in DSM-IV-TR
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Out-of-the-box questions about psychotherapy
Should psychotherapy be subjected to the same research paradigm as clinical drug trials?
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Integrating psychiatry with other medical specialties
Although psychiatry has successfully embraced the medical model, separations still prevent its full integration
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Treat the patient, not the disease: Practicing psychiatry in the era of guidelines, protocols, and algorithms
There is no such thing as an average patient and an average treatment—every patient is unique
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Psychiatric futurology
Only intensive research can accelerate our future; everything we know today was a research project a few years ago