A recent post on Behaviorism and Mental Health, Psychiatry’s Over Reliance On Pharma, took a meta-look at Dr. Lieberman’s The NIMH-CATIE Schizophrenia Study: What Did We Learn? Dr. Hickey pointed to Dr. Lieberman’s blaming pharma for their distorted messages, rather than holding psychiatrists responsible for listening to those messages, and continuing to listen even now […]
I think Deep Throat’s line, "Follow the money," was a bit of fiction from screenwriter William Goldman rather than historical fact, but it doesn’t matter. It captured a principle that may well outlive its origins. Here, Ginny Barbour uses it with finesse: Follow the Money; or, Why it Took an Accounts Committee to Decide Why […]
Conclusions and recommendations On clinical trials We were surprised and concerned to discover that information is routinely withheld from doctors and researchers about the methods and results of clinical trials on treatments currently prescribed in the United Kingdom. This problem has been noted for many years in the professional academic literature, with many promises given, […]
“Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world’s great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs. I am haunted by […]
No retrospective of the DSM-5 process would be complete without a commentary from the summer of 2009, when things moved into the public arena. And there’s no better ringside commentator than Danny Carlat who was blogging the whole thing blow by blow. Senator Grassley’s Investigation was still in the news, and a few weeks before, […]
In DSM-5 retrospective I… I reviewed some of the story of the DSM-5 beginning with Kupfer et al’s 2002 book, A Research Agenda for the DSM-V [I continue to think that one can’t understand the DSM-5 without reading, or at least scanning that book – it’s a free pdf]. I thought it was a trick […]
Something very unusual happened in the process of the revision of the psychiatric diagnostic manual – the DSM-5 revision published last May. The leaders of the previous revisions, Robert Spitzer [DSM-III, DSM-IIIR] and Allen Frances [DSM-IV], both became outspoken critics of the enterprise and went public with their dissatisfaction. Dr. Spitzer was refused access the […]
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