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Excellence in psychiatry: hopes and hubris
Author(s) -
Titmarsh Steve
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
progress in neurology and psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.19
H-Index - 12
eISSN - 1931-227X
pISSN - 1367-7543
DOI - 10.1002/pnp.383
Subject(s) - serendipity , excellence , hubris , psychiatry , harm , psychology , medicine , psychotherapist , political science , law , history , philosophy , social psychology , epistemology , classics
Over‐confident leaders taking excessive risks, the benefits of early treatment of bipolar disorder, serendipity in the quest for an Alzheimer's disease treatment along with strategies to minimise harm from drug therapy all played a part in the annual meeting for psychiatrists that is the Latest Advances in Psychiatry Symposium. Steve Titmarsh went along to the Royal College of Physicians in London, in March to find out more.