"I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. Laugh — because there is no way task force and work group members can be made to refrain from discussing the developing DSM-V with their colleagues. Cry — because this unprecedented attempt to revise DSM in secrecy indicates a failure to understand that revising a diagnostic manual […]
Well Dr. Gibbons’s meta-analysis of suicidality and efficacy in Major Depressive Disorder on SSRIs [Prozac, Effexor], the subject of 24 previous posts on this blog, is the absolute paradigm for the gift that keeps on giving. In this issue of The Scientist, he’s interviewed in an offering about access to full clinical trial data. Data […]
If it becomes discredited — and indeed the threat to it is great enough — then your world collapses. There is nothing left for you but to despair of everything, of civilization and the future of mankind. Sigmund Freud: The Future of an Illusion 1927 In his book, The Future of an Illusion, Freud was […]
To put it briefly, there are two widespread human characteristics which are responsible for the fact that the regulations of civilization can only be maintained by a certain degree of coercion— namely, that men are not spontaneously fond of work and that arguments are of no avail against their passions. Sigmund Freud: The Future of […]
To put it briefly, there are two widespread human characteristics which are responsible for the fact that the regulations of civilization can only be maintained by a certain degree of coercion— namely, that men are not spontaneously fond of work and that arguments are of no avail against their passions. Sigmund Freud: The Future of […]
Having thus taken our bearings, let us return once more to the question of ——— ——-. We can now repeat that all of them are illusions and insusceptible of proof. No one can be compelled to think them true, to believe in them. Some of them are so improbable, so incompatible with everything we have […]