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# Psychiatry

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Emergency departments ‘ground zero’ for a stretched mental health system
Dr Anne M Doherty
9 Jan 2021
31.0k
44
Teen who attempted to murder woman he met online was exposed to extreme pornography from young age, court hears
31 Jul 2019
26.9k
'Walking into a crisis': 61 psychiatrist posts are vacant around the country
26 Nov 2018
30.0k
17
Top psychiatrist says he resigned from HSE due to 'mental health inaction'
18 Jun 2018
28.1k
34
"We have always found ways to lock up mentally ill people": The disturbing history of Irish asylums
14 Jan 2017
51.7k
37
Girls make up vast majority of young people seeking psychiatric help for eating disorders
23 Jul 2016
14.6k
68
Hundreds of Irish people are still undergoing electro-shock therapy
5 May 2016
20.1k
48
'There is an attempt to muzzle us': Nurse suspended after criticising psychiatric unit
10 Apr 2015
10.4k
19
Galway mental health unit used new observation area 'as office space'
8 Aug 2014
8.5k
20
More than 3,000 young people are waiting for mental health referrals
7 Jul 2014
7.1k
18
TD says sending children to adult psychiatric units is 'inhumane'
22 Jun 2014
6.3k
16
Opinion: Antidepressants – friend or foe?
Anonymous
11 Jun 2014
3.1k
111
Column: 'He was given a clean bill of health, walked out of the hospital and took his own life'
Conor McNally
28 Apr 2014
3.8k
169
Concern over high level of undetected PTSD among Irish psychiatric clients
7 Jan 2014
10.0k
7
Death of mum-of-two sparks calls for inquiry into Roscommon psychiatric care
14 Jun 2013
17.5k
11
Column: Mental health is not determined by brain function alone
Derek Chambers
12 Jun 2013
145
28
Delays of up to 10 years in diagnosing bipolar disorder
10 May 2013
7.2k
52
Proposals for six-person abortion panel 'ridiculous' and 'a sick joke', says expert
22 Apr 2013
11.4k
190
347 psychiatric patients received electro-shock therapy in 2010
12 Aug 2012
12.9k
108
Irish men predicted to live nearly a decade longer by 2041
21 Apr 2011
1.1k
7
Electro-shock therapy defended by psychiatric group
31 Aug 2010
315
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