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Comment on way past time… by a-non

a-non — Fri, 24 May 2013 05:12:54 +0000

I found the concept of a “Co-PI and Co-Investigator”:
http://cflegacy.research.umn.edu/spp/roles/co_inv.html
The source is, ahum, the University of Minnesota.

Comment on way past time… by CannotSay2013

CannotSay2013 — Fri, 24 May 2013 03:31:36 +0000

Mickey, this Dr Thase is the same Dr Thase that shows up here spinning the size of the antidepressant effect https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zihdr36WVi4 ? If so, is anybody surprised? The only drama in Martin Keller’s story is that he got caught. Nobody should be surprised though that these things happen.

Comment on way past time… by Nancy Wilson

Nancy Wilson — Fri, 24 May 2013 02:23:30 +0000

Thank you, Mickey. I sent this to the investigator and the Chancellor’s office.

Cheers.

Comment on way past time… by Discover and Recover

Discover and Recover — Fri, 24 May 2013 01:39:15 +0000

Dr. Nardo,

Thanks for your research on this, for trying to get to the bottom of what’s going on with this new antidepressant (principal investigator, etc).

Sometimes, I wonder why the FDA, NIMH and other federal agencies are not doing the same – with each of the drugs, all of the clincal trials, approvals, etc.

There’s a lot of corruption out there, particularly with psychoactive drugs.

Best,

Duane

Comment on way past time… by Joel Hassman, MD

Joel Hassman, MD — Fri, 24 May 2013 00:46:24 +0000

I still like Robin Williams’ drug for treating mental health. I know Mickey, you want a respectable and responsible site including comments, but, I hope after you read the post, you’ll let it stay as I am just quoting a famous comic who’s line left me in convulsive laughter in the aisle of the auditorium when he said it:

“I have the perfect drug for all these problems: Fuck-it-all!”

I mean, when you think about it, what has psychopharmacology just decomposed to these days, come up with a fancy name for a me too compound, and there you have it: people just want to swallow a tablet or capsule and then utter that line!

Happy Memorial Day, probably fitting for the conclusion of the APA conference.

See Ya!

Comment on it’s only a blog… by Tom

Tom — Thu, 23 May 2013 20:15:00 +0000

For those of us with a dynamic bent.

http://www.aeonmagazine.com/being-human/jay-watts-freudian-slips/

Comment on it’s only a blog… by wiley

wiley — Thu, 23 May 2013 20:03:11 +0000

Thought some of you might find this article interesting

http://www.propublica.org/article/part-d-prescriber-checkup-mainbar

The dangerous and contraindicated use of psychiatric drugs is a monster with many tentacles. The failure to police it is structural. It seems that the APA should want to police itself rather than to allow so many psychiatrists to be associated with harm and fraud.

Comment on it’s only a blog… by Discover and Recover

Discover and Recover — Thu, 23 May 2013 15:09:58 +0000

It’s the best blog

Duane

Comment on it’s only a blog… by Peter Parry, child psychiatrist

Peter Parry, child psychiatrist — Thu, 23 May 2013 14:55:22 +0000

It is a fabulous blog.

Was only my second APA, previous one in San Francisco 4 yrs ago, and AACAP once in 2009 also.

So I don’t have much to compare with US psychiatry conference wise.
But the shift in tone in Australian psychiatry conferences has been clear over the years and similar seemed evident here in SF 2013.
A widespread scepticism of Big Pharma – evident in the packed mtg for the antidepressant efficacy debate session on final afternoon. Opinions once radical and scorned or shamed into silence now mainstream or at least widely and easily discussed. Big Pharma themselves tucked far back in the registration hall out of sight of the main gathering eating area. Perhaps many still went to the fancy exhibitions but I never found the time and wasn’t as in conferences til recently virtually corralled into conversing with sales reps.

Scepticism too re DSM.

Our symposium critiquing Pediatric Bipolar and neglect of attachment and developmental trauma, over medicating etc. drew 70 compared with 250 four years ago. Less tension more acceptance. More a feeling of “it’s over”.

What hasn’t really started however is “what now” in my opinion. There is this call to biomarkers and a continued but maybe more nuanced drive down biological psychiatry’s mindless road. But I hope things like the Critical Psychiatry Network can arise out of this crisis/power vacuum and bring us back on a path to a truly mindful psychiatry where biomarkers and treatments are sought and used knowing that brains are for holding minds and minds are for relating with and influences are multidirectional. A sophisticated biopsychosocial model. Insel’s comments from NIMH don’t give much hope on the surface but time shall tell.

Off to Boston to a traumatology conference next week where a better future paradigm I believe is already here.

Comment on it’s only a blog… by Berit Bryn-Jensen

Berit Bryn-Jensen — Thu, 23 May 2013 10:43:08 +0000

Well said, Wiley! But I harbour even graver doubts as to what it – psychiatry – can achieve after listening to the chattering thoughts of dr Lieberman on the radio, on the invitation of this very good blog, one of the best, wise and humane. Thank you!
Maybe the desire to build schools of thought, starting long before Kraepelin, and stairs to climb up, above the mess and the wounds of ordinary folks, is where man, men and women, go astray, always have, always will?
Embarassed is the word for the feeling I did not understand while listening to President Lieberman. I felt deeply embarrassed. First, because he sounded like a jerk. Then, embarassed and guilty for having trusted figures like him, earlier, before I learnt better, by those I love.