The False Epidemic of Childhood Bipolar Disorder Huffington Post by Allen Frances April 3, 2012 In common with all medicine, the history of psychiatry is filled with silly and sometimes dangerous fads in diagnosis and in treatment. Unfortunately, one of the most distressing fads is happening right now. Childhood bipolar disorder used to be vanishingly […]
Fewer Medical School Seniors Electing Psychiatry as a Specialty According to the American Psychiatric Association APA News Release ARLINGTON, Va. (March 27, 2012)—The number of U.S. medical students choosing psychiatry as a specialty has been declining for the past six years, according to a report from the National Resident Matching Program. The American Psychiatric Association […]
Protesters, Rejecting Mental Illness Labels, Vow to “Occupy” the American Psychiatric Association Convention MindFreedom March 6, 2012 On Saturday, May 5, 2012, as thousands of psychiatrists congregate in Philadelphia for the American Psychiatric Association [APA] Annual Meeting, individuals with psychiatric labels and other supporters will converge in a global campaign to oppose the APA’s proposed […]
A couple of you have noted that the ADAA [Anxiety Disorders Association of America] itself has its own PHARMA ties. So I started searching their 2009 Annual Conference that was on my screen for familiar names: Charles Nemeroff, Alan Schatzberg, and Karen Wagner on the Scientific Advisory Board; Martin Keller, Joseph Biederman, and Dennis Charney […]