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While no one doubts that body, brain, and mind comprise an integrated system; modern psychiatry is increasingly practiced in an organ and symptom-specific manner. Integrative Psychiatry attempts to unify this fragmented approach in a responsible, scientific and clinically useful manner.

Integrative Psychiatry offers to optimize current available treatments, since the rush for scientific progress marginalizes proven treatments and age-old wisdom.

By using available knowledge, based on solid scientific data, TIIPS highlights the benefit of merging complementary aspects of medicine and psychiatry.

We want to identify conditions where integrative approaches to body, mind, and treatment are essential to recovery and maintenance of good health.

In fact, far from being revolutionary, the body/mind connection is intuitively grasped by all, and has been that way throughout human history.

The Institute consists of renowned physicians, academicians and healthcare professionals, all of whom are committed to making a positive contribution to the way we treat our patients.

Our guiding principle is 'Optimizing currently available treatments' rather than looking for new ones.

Monday, May 18, 2009 by Dr. Kaminski

“30 something” reproductive anxiety, IVF and Stress

Almost any scientific innovation is doomed to have unintended consequences. Medicine is no exception. As soon as a new breakthrough gets mainstreamed, the threshold for using it gets exponentially lower: recent publicity about gross overuse of stimulants, unnecessary back surgeries and coronary bypass, to name but a few, illustrates an important principle: the mere existence of a new treatment is not a license to use it indiscriminately. I think such a trend is at play in the area of fertility treatment, especially that of IVF (in vitro fertilization).
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