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Old Apr 13, 2008, 01:51 PM
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I do find those articles of interest. Unfortunately I wasn't able to find any of Dr. Perry's studies at my college library or through our online databases. I was able to find quite a bit of studies that Dr. Seikulla has published and I submitted a request to have them requested from another library. Hopefully I can learn something new!

I have a unique opportunity to both go to college and work in a medical environment. That medical environment does tend to biased me toward it's view on some areas of treatment. The physicians actively try to convince me to go into Psychiatry instead of Clinical Psychology using the example, "sometimes people need to be medicated." I can't help but take that view in patients the present with acute psychosis. I suppose because the behavior is so different that giving them a little peace seems. Even greater is that the physicians and myself lack the tools to provide care to patients experiencing an acute psychosis. It has been suggested to play into someone's psychosis, but I'm not sure how ethical that is. Does Dr. Perry address these kind of issues in his book?
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