You got to know when to hold them, And know when to fold them. Know when to run away. Know when to hide… Don’t Turn Your Back on Industry, but Keep It Honest Medscape Psychiatry by Jeffrey A. Lieberman, MD Dec 19, 2012 My comments are prompted by an article that was published on November 24 in […]
Just another small point about the Field Trial editorial, this part of the editorial didn’t make any sense to me: The Initial Field Trials of DSM-5: New Blooms and Old Thorns by Robert Freedman, David A. Lewis, Robert Michels, Daniel S. Pine, Susan K. Schultz, Carol A. Tamminga, Glen O. Gabbard, Susan Shur-Fen Gau, Daniel […]
Isn’t it rich, aren’t we a pair Me here at last on the ground – and you in mid-air Send in the clowns Isn’t it bliss, don’t you approve One who keeps tearing around – and one who can’t move But where are the clowns – send in the clowns Just when I stopped opening […]
I was perusing my usual haunts this evening, sort of catching up after a fairly busy holiday season that ate up my leisure time. Pharmagossip had a number of interesting finds. But this one caught my eye because of a particular experience: File under "Perverse Incentives" Pharmagossip by Jack Friday December 31, 2012 You’ve probably […]
Bob Fidaman of Seroxat Sufferers fame passed on an article that he found kind of bizarre [Suicide Prevention and Ketamine – Larkin & Beautrais]. He wasn’t wrong: A preliminary naturalistic study of low-doseketamine for depression and suicide ideation in the emergency department. by Larkin GL and Beautrais AL International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology. 2011 14[8]:1127-1131. We […]
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 […]
In case it’s not apparent, I’m trying to get my remaining thoughts about the DSM-5 said, so as to put it away and move on in the New Year. I’ll think I’m done with it, then I’ll read something like the recent Washington Post article, and it gets me all stirred up again [see Howard […]