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where’s the beef?…

I really have a distaste for grant applications. I did some when I was an NIH Fellow in the bronze age and much later wrote periodic training grants. I get it why one has to fill out all that stuff and look endlessly at the endless guidelines, but getting it doesn’t erase the tedium of […]

an absolute truth…

Professors [Allen] Frances and [Patrick] McGorry are keynote speakers at the Asia South Pacific Mental Health Conference hosted by the Richmond Fellowship in Perth [Australia], which ends today… Mental health needs rethink thewest.com.au by Martin Whitely June 13, 2012 Mental health policy in Australia, for so long ignored, is finally getting attention. The Gillard and […]

back on that path…

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 […]

what’s the fuss? II…

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 […]

what’s the fuss? I…

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 […]

standing room only? down under…

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 […]

hubris…

The McGorry-Hickie reform controversy: Why has mental health become so political? Left Flank by Dr_Tad September 24, 2011 Yesterday one of Australia’s most prominent psychiatrists, Professor Ian Hickie, wrote an op-ed piece in the SMH titled, “Ignore the critics, public need to back fresh start in mental healthcare”. It is part of a growing controversy […]

how best to help…

In the US, we’ve been so focused on psychopharmacology in the last three decades that one wonders what psychiatrists even thought about before Prozac came along in 1987. One of those things actually had roots in early psychopharmacology era – the Community Mental Health Movement. Prior to the 1950s and the coming of Lithium [1949] […]

Corrigendum I…

As best I can tell, a Corrigendum is an error that gets corrected in a later edition or article. Corrigendum is a brand new word for me, and it doesn’t yet just roll off the tongue. I think it’s publication-ese for "whoops" – not a way to cover up for previous deceit but rather to […]

the appearance of a conflict of interest…

As long as we’re on the subject of psychiatrists working behind the scenes, I’d like to return to the topic of Dr. Patrick McGorry who is in the center of the push for early intervention in an "ultra high risk" of adolescents and young adults who go on to develop Schizophrenia at a greater rate […]