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above the din……

( OPINION )

Back in ancient history when CBT first came along, we used to joke that if you needed a publication for tenure, you could always do a study with four groups: Placebo, CBT, Antidepressant, CBT+Antidepressant. It seemed like that was the most repeated study in history and they always seemed to come out the same. CBT […]

the price of admission…

( OPINION )

A few weeks ago, I was commenting on an article in JAMA:Psychiatry by three Residency Training Directors [yellow brick roads…] who were advocating a curriculum for psychiatry residents in neuroscience [The Future of Psychiatry as Clinical Neuroscience: Why Not Now?]. The gist of the article had to do with preparing future psychiatrists for the expected […]

slim pickings…

( OPINION )

When I wrote the last post [a pilot…], I was aware that there had been letters in the Lancet about the Morrison et al article, that I couldn’t access. They’re by statistically much more sophisticated critics than I, but have similar reservations and more. But I wanted to mention the opening to the authors’ reply […]

a pilot…

( OPINION )

Living in the UK in the1970s practicing in an a US Air Force Hospital near one of the UK’s primo Hospitals [Addenbrooks, in Cambridge] was interesting. Suffice it to say that our systems and expectations are very different. I never quite ‘got it‘ – except to say ‘very different‘ and ‘interesting.’ I think I understand […]