When I first heard of this story I was too confused about it to comment. The study concluded originally that antidepressants decreased the incidence of suicide based on blood sample analysis, but I couldn’t follow the logic well enough to comment. This report from Retraction Watch makes it a bit clearer: Authors retract paper claiming […]
[click to link] Well we don’t often have news in the blogs about the blogs themselves. But there are big changes in the Carlat Psychiatry Blog. Danny is moving on to become a Conflict of Interest policy wonk with the Pew Prescription Project and leaving the blog. The Carlat Psychiatry Blog was where a lot […]
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In my last post, I quoted from the blog h-psychiatry [‘h’ as in ‘history’], one I ran across looking for some of the story of the DSM-5 protest by Drs. Spitzer and Frances. It is really quite a resource, more essay than blog, populated by academicians interested in the history of psychiatry. It describes itself, […]
While I’ve quoted rather heavily from the h-madness and Wired pieces below, I have done neither full justice. If you want to know how all this got started, these are two good places to get an enlightening overview: Am I a Dangerous Man? Psychiatric Times By Allen Frances March 16, 2012 According to this week’s […]
In case you haven’t noticed my flurry of postings lately are the ones I never finished because I was so preoccupied with those Gibbons’ papers. Here’s another oldie I finished: J&J Wins First Risperdal Product Liability Case Pharmalot By Ed Silverman February 17th, 2012 In the first lawsuit to go to trial over personal injuries […]
1994 was a long time ago. That was the year Nelson Mandela became President of South Africa – the year O.J. Simpson’s ex-wife was murdered in California. Tim Berners-Lee had just created the kernel that would become the World Wide Web. Schindler’s List won 7 Oscars that year. Newt Gingrich spearheaded a take-over of the […]
Statement for John M. Oldham, M.D. President of the American Psychiatric Association March 15, 2012 In their article, “A Comparison of DSM-IV and DSM-5 Panel Members’ Financial Associations with Industry: A Pernicious Problem Persists,” which appeared in the March issue of the journal Public Library of Science, and which ABC and other news outlets quoted, […]
Perhaps there’s something more wonderful than a carefully crafted tool, but I’m not sure what it might be. It’s a monument to the human mind and its capacity for ingenuity. Richard Attenborough may marvel on PBS at the Capstan Monkeys skill at using a tree limb to bang Mussels until they release their grip, but […]
I was older than many of my fellow residents when I did my psychiatry residency and when I finished, I was already in analytic training and had a taxing job – which are the excuses I use to explain putting off taking my psychiatry board examination for a few extra years. The point of this […]