Mental health and diseases, that is, psychiatry, is a branch of medicine that deals with treating mental illnesses that affect human psychology and uses patient-specific methods. The methods used by the psychiatrist are determined according to the patient's general emotional, social, behavioral and cognitive state.
Which Examinations and Applications Are Performed?
The necessary diagnosis and treatment process begins with a psychiatric appointment. Tests and practices requested by the psychiatrist during this process:
- Wisconsin card matching test
- Wechler memory test
- WAIS pair similarities subtest
- schema therapy
- Stroop test
- Semantic fluency and letter fluency test
- Rey auditory-verbal learning test
- Standard matrices test (RSPM) of Raven progressive matrices
- Psychotherapy
- psychological tests
- Öktem verbal memory processes test
- Neuropsychological tests
- Minnesota multiphasic personality inventory (MMPI)
- tracking test
- EMDR (Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing)
- EMDR (Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing) therapy
- Boston naming test
- Cognitive behavioral therapy
- Benton face recognition test
Which Diseases Does the Psychiatric Unit Treat?
Adult and child psychiatrists treat various psychological illnesses. These psychiatric diseases:
- post-traumatic stress disorder
- somatoform disorders
- health psychology
- psychological diseases
- Premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PDD)
- Posttraumatic stress disorder
- Panic attack (Panic disorder)
- Obsessive-compulsive disorder (Obsession disease)
- major depression
- Substance abuse treatment
- women's mental health
- Post-pregnancy psychosis (postpartum psychosis: puerperal psychosis)
- Pregnancy and post-pregnancy depression
- mood disorders
- Postpartum depression and aggression
- Dysthymia (chronic depressive disorder)
- Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
- Depression
- sexual therapy
- Loss of sexual desire
- Bipolar disorder
- Anxiety disorders
