Monday, I wrote about the strange story of Richard Noll’s article, When Psychiatry Battled the Devil, in the Psychiatric Times [the unforgotten unremembered…]. In that article, Richard, a psychologist and historian at DeSales University, reminded us of a largely forgotten story. In the period from the mid 1980s to the mid 1990s, there was an […]
This summer, we wandered in uncharted territory – Baltimore, Annapolis, the Civil War sites – Antietem, Gettysburg, and Harper’s Ferry. I grew up on the side of Missionary Ridge where many of my friends had cannons, markers, or monuments in their yards for us to climb on. The Chickamauga Battlefield Park and Lookout Mountain added […]
I’m not in love with monotony, but monotony is why my daughter named this blog 1boringoldman. At the time, my monotony was political, but I got converted to the academic·pharmaceutical alliance in psychiatry and the damage done along the way. For a few years, my monotony had to do with my catching up on all […]
Back before Christmas, I read an article by Richard Noll, psychologist and scholar [one of those…], in the Psychiatric Times and flagged it for a later blog. But when I went back, it wasn’t there. How come? How come indeed! The Psychiatric Times unpublished it for reasons that sound pretty flimsy – liability issues they […]
The recent revelations of Dr. Kupfer’s misadventures with conflict of interest [insider trading…, DSM-5 retrospective I… et al] remain limited to an odd blog post here and there. Google News only yields Kupfer’s preChristmas Huff Post article, How the Official Psychiatric Guidebook Deals With the Internet, about the DSM-5’s provisional Internet Gaming Disorder [the operative […]
Evidence Based Medicine [often pronounced evidencebasedmedicine] has evolved into one of my least favorite terms, even beating out chemicalimbalance. The reason it tops the list is that it’s even used by people who are not tricksters like the chemicalimbalance set. They often mean well. They’re saying that you shouldn’t confuse opinion or preference with fact, […]
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 […]