Romeo Vitelli

For many soldiers deployed abroad in distant countries, the sense of isolation and danger can be overwhelming. It is hardly surprising that military suicides have risen astronomically since the beginning of the respective missions to Iraq and Afghanistan with a recent study showing an 80 per cent increase...

A recent conference on autism held in Philadephia earlier this year was more controversial than usual. Along with the presentation of papers relating to the causes and treatment of autism, a new film by French documentary filmmaker Sophie Robert showed the powerful hold that psychoanalytic theories about the...

When police broke into Kevin McGee's Edinburgh apartment, they found that the 32-year old man had hanged himself. The police had been notified by several of McGee's friends after they noticed that the television producer had updated his Facebook status to read: "Kevin McGee thinks that...

One of the most controversial issues raised during the recent provincial election campaign here in Ontario dealt with the promise by Progressive Conservative Leader, Tim Hudak, to make the provincial sex offender registry accessible to the public. While publicly accessible sex offender registries have been available in the United States...

On my recent visit to New Orleans, I looked forward to seeing how well the city has recovered from the devastating impact that Hurricane Katrina had on the city.

Based on what the various tour guides had to tell me, much of the damage seems to be nothing more...

A 31-year-old Indonesian man facing execution for committing 11 murders is now seeking a stay of execution on the grounds that he is a psychopath and mentally unfit for execution. Verry Idham Henyansyah (who often goes by nickname of "Ryan") was arrested in 2008 for a series of...

In September 2004, a group of armed militants took more than 1,100 people (including 777 children) hostage at a school in Beslan located in the North Caucasus region of the Russian Federation. After a tense standoff with Russian troops that lasted three days, security forces stormed the school....

While the use of physical restraints in dealing with mentally patients remains controversial worldwide, treatment professionals in most countries are encouraged to consider their use only as a last resort for patients who might harm themselves otherwise.

Given the lack of viable treatment options in many developing countries, family...