Dr. Richard Merle Waugaman M.D.
Psychiatrist | Psychiatry
4701 Willard Ave. #204 Chevy Chase MD, 20815About
Dr. Richard Waugaman is a psychiatrist practicing in Chevy Chase, MD. Dr. Waugaman is a medical doctor specializing in the care of mental health patients. As a psychiatrist, Dr. Waugaman diagnoses and treats mental illnesses. Dr. Waugaman may treat patients through a variety of methods including medications, psychotherapy or talk therapy, psychosocial interventions and more, depending on each individual case. Different medications that a psychiatrist might prescribe include antidepressants, antipsychotic mediations, mood stabilizers, stimulants, sedatives and hypnotics. Dr. Waugaman treats conditions like depression, anxiety, OCD, eating disorders, bipolar disorders, personality disorders, insomnia, ADD and other mental illnesses.
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Genital self-mutilation.
- Religion--the last taboo?
- Commentary on "Plausibility and possible determinants of sudden 'remissions' in borderline patients". The pivotal role of interpersonal relationships in the outcome of borderline patients.
- The analyst's caseload as a family: transferences to fellow patients.
- Unconscious communication and literature.
- Reality as an inkblot: looking at the trauma literature.
- Analytic time.
- Substance abuse and borderline personality disorder.
- "If you want to bring someone back to reality, you have to enter their world first".
- Unconscious communication in Shakespeare: "Et tu, Brute?" echoes "Eloi, eloi lama sabachthani?".
- "And gladly wolde he lerne and gladly teche".
- Potential lower efficacy of molindone among first-generation antipsychotics.
- A psychoanalytic study of Edward de Vere's The Tempest.
- Patients' reactions to the birth of a male analyst's child.
- Samuel Clemens and Mark Twain: pseudonym as act of reparation.
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