Last night we drove down to Atlanta for an event. Our Society went as a group to a Play, Freud’s Last Session – a fictionalized meeting between Freud and C.S. Lewis in London during Freud’s last days [with the added treat that the actor playing Freud was a personal acquaintance]. In the Play, they argued […]
For all of my kvetching about Dr. McGorry’s EPPIC program, I think their area is fascinating – Schizophrenia before the break with reality – and I’m glad they’re doing it, though I think the point is to edge closer to understanding what Schizophrenia is before settling on ideas about treatment. It seems there are a […]
Look what just popped up on my email. I guess when I signed up for Medscape to read the piece by Dr. Lieberman about the coming lab diagnoses in Psychiatry [psychiatry inc…], I opened the door: Which lead to this [see ought to know by now…]: Here we go again! Guess which click here I […]
Occam’s razor, also known as Ockham’s razor, and sometimes expressed in Latin as lex parsimoniae [the law of parsimony, economy or succinctness], is a principle that generally recommends selecting from among competing hypotheses the one that makes the fewest new assumptions. I’d like to return for a moment to the recent article in the American […]
In my last post, I tried to separate the various controversies in the proposed and funded programs of Dr. Patrick McGorry and his colleagues in Australia [rearranged]: The McGorry Contraversies Are these programs sufficiently developed to put into widespread use? This part can get confusing to a foreigner like me [though from reading, I think […]
When I first became interested in the goings-on in Australia, it was introduced to me as the McGorry Controversy. At the time, I didn’t know enough about it to understand that term. As I’ve read more over the months, I’m beginning to see why it was called the McGorry Controversy instead of the EPPIC Controversy […]
Transforming Drug Development Focus: Harvard Medical School by R. Alan Leo October 17, 2011 Harvard Medical School launches major initiative to address crisis in drug development Taking aim at the alarming slowdown in the development of new and lifesaving drugs, Harvard Medical School is launching an Initiative in Systems Pharmacology, a comprehensive strategy to transform […]
EPPIC disagreement over early intervention: poll Psychiatric Update [Australia] by Michael Slezak October 6, 2011 Almost 60% of psychiatrists think the Federal Government’s focus on EPPIC is inappropriate, a poll conducted by Psychiatry Update reveals. Psychiatrists also mostly oppose the similar focus on headspace, but in slightly smaller numbers, with 53.7% either disagreeing or strongly […]
I’ve followed both the series by Dr. Allen Frances [DSM5 in Distress] and Dr. Stuart Kaplan [Your Child Does Not Have Bipolar Disorder] in Psychology Today with interest. Here’s Dr. Frances’ most recent column: Should Temper Tantrums Be Made Into a DSM 5 Diagnosis? Psychology Today by Allen J. Frances, M.D. October 11, 2011 A […]
I was in Atlanta all day yesterday teaching a Seminar and visiting with some sick friends, so I missed the back and forth in the comments on the post about CABF’s name change [what’s in a name? that which we call a rose… ] except to approve them as dinged on my iPhone. While the […]