psychiatric patient
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He recalls his first psychiatric patient, a young woman whose remarkable recovery through medication left a lasting impression and underscored psychiatry's power to rebuild lives affected by mental illness.
From Science Daily • Oct. 14, 2025
A host of other familiar actors show up in brief, one-note roles, including Timothy Olyphant as Lilly’s impatient boss, Skyler Gisondo as her eager co-worker and Loretta Devine as Jack’s loopy fellow psychiatric patient.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 16, 2021
Deisseroth says his laboratory research informs the psychiatric patient care that he continues to give, yet many of the landmark studies are about causations and chemical pathways in genetically modified mice, not humans.
From Salon • Jul. 27, 2021
A man whose seven-year-old daughter was killed by a psychiatric patient says it is insulting that he has not received an apology from the NHS.
From BBC • Feb. 16, 2021
Not that the truth concerning “poor Bonnie’s afflictions” was in the least a secret; everyone knew she had been an on-and-off psychiatric patient the last half-dozen years.
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
