Dr. Frances’ most recent post in DSM5 in Distress returns to the DSM-5 category that sparked his opposition to the current directions of the DSM-5 Task Force – the Attenuated Psychosis Syndrome [Psychosis Risk Syndrome]. He reviews a November interview with Dr. Rajiv Tandon, a member of the psychosis work group, and with his usual […]
J&J to Agree to $1B Accord in Risperdal Probe Bloomberg By Margaret Cronin Fisk, Jef Feeley and David Voreacos January 5, 2012 Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) will pay more than $1 billion to the U.S. and most states to resolve a civil investigation into marketing of the antipsychotic Risperdal, according to people familiar with the […]
Quintiles Launches Digital Patient Recruitment Unit The Herald-Sun Durham, N.C. January 4, 2012 Quintiles, a private multinational company whose major business is in the management of clinical trials for drug companies, announced Tuesday that it’s formed a new unit geared toward online recruitment of patients for clinical trials. The Durham – based company announced Monday […]
heuristic hjʊəˈrɪstɪk — adjective helping to learn; guiding in discovery or investigation allowing pupils to learn things for themselves a. using or obtained by exploration of possibilities rather than by following set rules b. computing: denoting a rule of thumb for solving a problem without the exhaustive application of an algorithm: a heuristic solution Origins: […]
Is DSM 5 A Public Trust Or An APA Cash Cow? Commercialism And Censorship Trump Concern For Quality Psychology Today: DSM-5 in Distress by Allen J. Frances, M.D. January 3, 2012 DSM 5 will have a big impact on how millions of lives are led and how scarce mental health resources are spent. Getting the […]
"…I, like you, have seen how psychiatry has changed over the past 35 years I have been in practice. Over half of my practice are 15 min medication management appointments. I have learned to enjoy that as well as the psychotherapy I still do. There is a skill in med management and staying current is […]
Revised January 20, 2004 My name is Allen Jones. I am a “whistleblower” who has sought the protection of the federal courts to tell the following story. I am employed as an Investigator in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Inspector General (OIG), Bureau of Special Investigations. In November of 2002, I entered a CivilRights […]
It would be hard to mount an argument that mental illness is all brain disease. In fact, I’ve never heard anyone suggest that mental illness cannot be caused by problems in the mind. Rather, the argument has been that the various theories of how the mind is involved in creating mental pain are attacked as […]