Volume 36 · Number 11
NOVEMBER 2006

Occupational Psychiatry Has Evolved Over Time

By Anas Alkhatib, MD

Occupational psychiatry is the amalgam of two fields of medicine: occupational medicine that studies workplace as an environment and identifies factors that influences it in a positive or negative manner, and psychiatry that deals with thoughts, feelings, and behavior.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Anas Alkhatib, MD, is Chief Fellow, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN.

Address correspondence to: Anas Alkhatib, MD, 1601 23rd Avenue South, Third Floor, Nashville, TN 37212; [email protected].

 

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