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Obstetricians can end up facing psychiatrically complex patients, with no idea what to do.

From Salon • Sep. 10, 2024

“Our family, primary and extended, is medically and psychiatrically complex,” she said.

From Washington Post • Mar. 22, 2023

“The relapse rate of bipolar disorder in women who stop lithium for pregnancy is 85-100 percent. People generally forget that being psychiatrically ill is not good for pregnancy outcomes.”

From Slate • Aug. 31, 2022

The gym windows look out on the hallway, which doctors and staff can now use to “prescreen” someone who’s not psychiatrically stable before they enter.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 17, 2022

To the lay mind and to the minds of many of our eminent—but psychiatrically uninformed—jurists the question of malingering suggests itself at once.

From Studies in Forensic Psychiatry by Glueck, Bernard