That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history. Aldous Huxley This week, a man died who had a profound effect on my close friends and the part of the world I live in. His name was Will Campbell [Rev. Will D. […]
The oldest map of the world shows Babylon [the rectangle] and its surrounding countries. British Museum 6th Century BC Hecataeus’ work, especially the Genealogiai, shows a marked scepticism of oral history, opening with "Hecataeus of Miletus thus speaks: I write what I deem true; for the stories of the Greeks are manifold and seem to […]
Healy was born in Raheny, Dublin. He completed an MD in neuroscience and studied psychiatry during a clinical research fellowship at Cambridge University Clinical School. In 1990, Healy became a Senior Lecturer in Psychological Medicine at North Wales… David Healy – in Wikipedia Pharmagossip recently linked to a good article on Alternet that tell an […]
During the 1990s, we had a group that met to discuss traumatic illness at Emory where I was on the clinical faculty. There were biological researchers, a distinguished group of literature professors from the college, colleagues from the analytic institute, behavioral therapists [EMDR], the staff from the rape crisis unit, a guru from the false […]
Experimental Antidepressant Moves Closer to US Approval Medscape by Deborah Brauser May 20, 2013 The experimental antidepressant Vortioxetine is safe and effective for treating major depressive disorder [MDD], findings from several new phase 3 randomized controlled trials [RCTs] suggest. Three studies of a total of 1545 US patients with MDD showed that those who received 20 mg […]
Maybe one would have to be an old psychiatrist to think this, but this paper is about what’s actually wrong in psychiatry right now. It’s where the problem starts – not the result of something else: Why Are Children Given Antipsychotics? Neuroskeptic May 7, 2013 Prescriptions of antipsychotic [aka neuroleptic] drugs in North American children […]
Dr. Bruce Cuthbert, director of NIMH’s Division of Adult Translational Research and Treatment Development. He and NIMH director Thomas Insel are leading the Research Domain Criteria Project [RDoC]. Dr. Paul Summergrad, incoming president of the American Psychiatric Association. He’s chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at Tufts University School of Medicine, and Psychiatrist-in-Chief at Tufts […]
For most of the DSM-III disorders, however, the etiology is unknown. A variety of theories have been advanced, buttressed by evidence – not always convincing – to explain how these disorders came about. The approach taken in DSM-III is atheoretical with regard to etiology or pathophysiological process except for those disorders for which this is […]
Well, there is one more week for comments on the DSM-5 web site [through June 15] and there’s still no posting of the results of the Field Trials [DSM-5 Field Trials] reported at the APA Meeting in Philadelphia. They have, however, had time to add a new page about permissions [DSM-5 Permissions Policy] and a […]
Nader has become the Corvair…