Home » Newsletters » The Carlat Psychiatry Report

The Carlat Psychiatry Report

Gender and Sexuality (April) | 2012

View Archived Issues

Sexual and Gender Diversity: Practice Tips

April 1, 2012

Patients who identify themselves within the broad category of LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer or questioning) are an increasingly visible population. Research has consistently shown that LGBTQ-identified individuals suffer higher rates of depression, suicide, anxiety, smoking, substance abuse, and sexually transmitted infections (STIs) than the general population. Read More

A Primer on Transgender Care

April 1, 2012

Dan Karasic, MD

Most psychiatrists have not been specifically trained in treating transgender patients. This is a problem, because as society has become more accepting of sexual and gender diversity, more of your patients are likely to divulge to you their transgender identity. Read More

The Struggles of ‘Coming Out’

April 1, 2012

Loren A. Olson, MD

Dr. Olson, you are a psychiatrist with a special interest in sexuality, but from a personal perspective, you also wrote a book about your own experience coming out as gay later in life. Read More

Thyroid Function

April 1, 2012

Glen Spielmans, PhD

True thyroid dysfunction can present with symptoms as wide-ranging as depression, mania, psychosis, or poor cognition. Read More

Depression

April 1, 2012

Glen Spielmans, PhD

Deep brain stimulation (DBS) has suddenly begun popping up in both the medical journals and the mainstream media as a potential treatment for treatment resistant depression. Read More