Dr. Paul Gerald Cotton M.D.
Psychiatrist | Psychiatry
186 S Willard St Burlington VT, 05401Rating
2/5
About
Dr. Paul Cotton is a psychiatrist practicing in Burlington, VT. Dr. Cotton is a medical doctor specializing in the care of mental health patients. As a psychiatrist, Dr. Cotton diagnoses and treats mental illnesses. Dr. Cotton 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. Cotton treats conditions like depression, anxiety, OCD, eating disorders, bipolar disorders, personality disorders, insomnia, ADD and other mental illnesses.
Education and Training
Tufts Univ Sch of Med, Boston Ma 1970
Tufts University School of Medicine 1970
Board Certification
Psychiatry and NeurologyAmerican Board of Psychiatry and NeurologyABPN- Forensic Psychiatry
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- The affective experience of residency training in community psychiatry.
- A community program for elderly state hospital patients.
- A community program for elderly state hospital patients.
- Predictors of community tenure of discharged state hospital patients.
- Predictors of community tenure of discharged state hospital patients.
- Depression, hopelessness and suicide in chronic schizophrenia.
- Suicide among schizophrenics: a comparison of attempters and completed suicides.
- Suicide among schizophrenics: a review.
- Critical treatment issues in suicide among schizophrenics.
- The effect of deinstitutionalization on a general hospital's inpatient psychiatric service.
- The effect of deinstitutionalization on a general hospital's inpatient psychiatric service.
- A mental health center's aftercare specialty service for discharged state hospital patients.
- Suicide among schizophrenics. Who is at risk?
- Behavioral treatment of an acute schizophrenic inpatient: a case report.
- Psychiatric care of the deinstitutionalized patient.
Treatments
- Bipolar Disorder
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