David W Kissane MBBS
Psychiatrist | Psychiatry
1275 York Ave New York NY, 10021About
Dr. David Kissane is a psychiatrist practicing in New York, NY. Dr. Kissane is a medical doctor specializing in the care of mental health patients. As a psychiatrist, Dr. Kissane diagnoses and treats mental illnesses. Dr. Kissane 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. Kissane treats conditions like depression, anxiety, OCD, eating disorders, bipolar disorders, personality disorders, insomnia, ADD and other mental illnesses.
Education and Training
University Of Melbourne Faculty Of Med Parkville Vic Australia 1974
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Importance of family-centred care to palliative medicine.
- The Mental Adjustment to Cancer (MAC) scale: replication and refinement in 632 breast cancer patients.
- Freud's palliative care and natural death.
- Demoralisation, depression and desire for death: problems with the Dutch guidelines for euthanasia of the mentally ill.
- Case presentation: a case of euthanasia, the Northern Territory, Australia.
- The challenge of informed consent.
- Palliative care--new approaches to the problem of suffering.
- Psychospiritual and existential distress. The challenge for palliative care.
- Neglect of bereavement care in general hospitals.
- Demoralization syndrome--a relevant psychiatric diagnosis for palliative care.
- Constructions of dignity in end-of-life care.
- Demoralisation: its impact on informed consent and medical care.
- Discourses of the body in euthanasia: symptomatic, dependent, shameful and temporal.
- Diagnostic efficiency of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale in women with early stage breast cancer.
- Demoralization: its phenomenology and importance.
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