I had a long and complicated look at Major Depressive Disorder, the Bereavement Exclusion, and the proposal to remove it in the DSM-5 a few days ago [the what is absurd…]. I realized how angry I am that they want to take out the Bereavement Exclusion yet neglect their real task – revising the whole […]
If there was a recurrent theme on this blog in 2012 besides the DSM-5, it would be articles that scream out for retraction: something old; Keller et al’s Paxil Study 329 [2001] and something new; Gibbons et al’s two articles on antidepressants in adolescents [2012]. The latter is summarized here: an anatomy of a deceit […]
When something that began it’s life as a solution of merit to a problem of consequence goes awry, history comes to the fore in the search for what went wrong. In my kind of history, individual psychotherapy, the answers are never simple, but usually by the end, one can come up with something of a […]