Does sex addiction exist?
This text summarises the current knowledge about so-called sex addiction. It is a rather controversial issue and not generally included in disease classifications, yet clinicians encounter patients...
How to lose weight? Some tips for effective weight loss
How to lose weight? Is there a miracle pill or diet? Below are tips compiled by a psychiatrist who is passionate about promoting a healthy lifestyle. Print it out and hang it on your fridge.
Can psychosis be 'infected'? On induced delusions
I think every person values their autonomy. Their independence, their freedom. This is why we are so opposed to any restriction of freedom. We then feel that something extremely precious is being...
World Mental Health Day 2016
"Dignity and mental health: psychological and psychiatric first aid for all" - is the slogan of this year's Mental Health Day.
Ways to deal with stress in natural medicine
The world of conventional medicine, over the centuries, has made a great deal of progress, allowing it to help sick people better and better. Interest in natural medicine has also had an impact on...
Sexuality in different cultures of the world
Human sexuality has many dimensions, including cultural ones. Since the right to realise one's sexual potential is one of the basic human rights, it seems important to look at how certain issues...
Does cinnamon improve learning processes?
Cinnamon is a very popular kitchen spice obtained from the dried bark of the cinnamon tree. It is currently found in two forms as a powder or a rolled-up form. It has long been known to have strong...
Psychological and psychiatric effects of rape
Rape leaves a permanent mark on the victim's psyche sometimes for many years, disintegrates the "my self" and leads to isolation from the environment. It can also cause a range of psychiatric...
Causes of bedwetting in children
Bed-wetting is a disorder that occurs in both the paediatric and adult population. The occurrence of the problem in the former group usually arouses fear and anxiety in parents; moreover, it is also...
Masturbation - a form of self-pleasure for women and men
Masturbation is counted as a commonly occurring phenomenon. It affects not only single people or those in failed relationships, but also those who live in relationships that are fully successful and...
Men's response to a woman's need to talk
A woman has a need to speak about her concerns, doubts or situations that cause dissatisfaction. This need is satisfied when the woman is listened to, without having to seek a solution to the...
Treatment of dementia
Read the abstract of one of the lectures of the Advances in Neurology and Psychiatry Conference.
How to live and win with diabetes?
Diabetes is categorised as a chronic disease of civilisation that affects an increasing percentage of people. Diabetes is characterised by a set of symptoms that make it all the more dangerous for...
The price of food influences the way we judge its quality
A variety of external factors affect not only our general wellbeing and interpersonal relationships, but also our... the evaluation of what we eat.
Disturbing pre-school behaviour in a child
Around the age of three we notice all sorts of new behaviours and attitudes in children. Very often these are: stubbornness, kicking, spitting, throwing objects, pushing peers, refusal to follow...
What is an insulin pump?
Often people suffering from mental disorders also have to struggle with diabetes. Sometimes the illness requires an insulin pump, which is essential to be able to function normally. An insulin pump...
How does VH type C infection occur?
Hepatitis C, is caused by HCV, a virus belonging to the Flaviviridae family .
Taking medicines correctly - what should we know about it?
Every one of us takes medicines in our lives (these can be various types of food supplements, antibiotics or vitamins). Unfortunately, only very few people do this in the correct way. It is true that...
Impact of physical activity on the psyche
Daily, regular, age-, health- and seasonally-adjusted physical activity not only improves physical fitness, body shape and fitness, but also has a beneficial effect on our mood and psyche. What form...
Pedantism
Pedantism, according to doctors and researchers, has an emotional basis. In many cases it requires long-term treatment.
