Charlie Chaplin’s last Little Tramp movie was also his first polemic – about the depersonalization of the assembly line worker – becoming just a cog in an industrial machine. It’s our favorite of his movies now, but in 1936 it got him labeled by many as a commie sympathizer. It’s ironic to look back on, […]
I don’t know much more than I knew last night about the Isacsson story. But I thought I’d look back at some of his previous publications [hampered as I am in Swedish – barely able to read the English subtitles when I watched the Millennium Trilogy or the wonderful Wallander Series on NetFlix]. Unfortunately, I […]
From the earliest Prozac days [1987] to the present, some version of the argument about whether the SSRI antidepressants can cause a syndrome associated with suicidality in some patients has always been on the table – even here in the Appalachians where the local teens talk about it in the suicide of one of their […]
["The Beasts of the Southern Wild" – the new "Les Misérables"]
Yesterday Pharmalot mentioned the infamous Paxil Study 329 and the JAACAP’s refusal to retract the article even after its starring role in a $3 B criminal and civil suit in which the sponsor [GSK] plead guilty to the charges: Journal Refuses To Retract Controversial Paxil Study Pharmalot By Ed Silverman January 9th, 2013 Last summer, […]
While this article puts more faith in the reliability figures from the DSM-5 Field Trials than I have, the account of the history of the endeavor is instructive. My own hypothesis has been that the DSM-5 Task Force leaders didn’t accept the stated DSM-III/DSM-IV atheoretical paradigm themselves [speaking of forests…]. They set out determined to […]
The Op-Ed: A Paradigm Shift In Launching Drugs Pharmalot By Ed Silverman January 8th, 2013 Jamzo points us to this OPED on Pharmalot by: Peter Hansen, who is the senior manager and global product launch lead for the Accenture Life Sciences industry practice, to explain what drugmakers need to know and do if they want […]
he·gem·o·ny [hj-mn] noun 1: preponderant influence or authority over others: domination 2: the social, cultural, ideological, or economic influence exerted by a dominant group Psychiatry is approaching a crisis. For thirty years, it has been dominated by the inertia of the coup d’etat in 1980, the DSM-III revision that became a virtual Declaration of Independence […]
Double Bind theory arose in an attempt the understand family communication patterns that might explain the ontogeny of psychosis, but the pattern of communication has a much wider application. A double bind [or an impossible situation] consists of four elements: the ouvert message: an injunction to perform a certain action the covert message: an equally […]
I couldn’t resist – the cabin with its fresh coat of paint at sunset[that’s Annie peeking over the railing on the steps]