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Good Psychiatric management is an empirically validated treatment for borderline patients that is practical, eclectic and common-sensical. It is what any patient should expect their responsible clinician to know. Its basic principles will be described with illustrations of how to disclose the diagnosis, initiate treatments, and assess progress.

A major clinical challenge in caring for patients with severe psychiatric disorders is to formulate a confident prognosis and to anticipate needs for treatment and support over prolonged periods of risk. This challenge is particularly compelling in potentially disabling or fatal major mood disorders, which follow notoriously complex courses with marked individual differences [2,4,11,25]. Bipolar I disorder is an attractive condition in which to study prognostication and prediction since it appears...

The Art of Perception (www.artfulperception.com) is a humanities based seminar for medical professionals that is designed to enhance observation, perception, and communication skills by learning to analyze works of art. The collaborative program was developed in 2001 at The Frick Collection in New York City to help medical students improve their observation and communication skills with patients. Since then, the program has been tailored not only to focus on interprofessional education...

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