Yearly Archives: 2012
Douglas Bloch – Long Bio
BEYOND PROZAC: A HOLISTIC APPROACH TO TREATING MOOD DISORDERS
Douglas Bloch, MA, is an author, teacher and mental health coach who writes and speaks on...
Doug Bloch – Short Bio
Beyond Prozac: Author, teacher, and mental health coach Douglas Bloch writes on using holistic tools and coping strategies to manage the symptoms of depression, anxiety...
Pat Bracken on the Crisis in Psychiatry at the Forum for Existential Psychology and...
Psychiatrist Pat Bracken speaks on the current "crisis of legitimacy in psychiatry," and the growth of the international "service user" movement at the Forum...
1 Boring Old Man Bores Even More Into Study 329’s Raw Data
1 Boring Old Man bores ever more deeply into the newly available raw data from GlaxoSmithKline's study of Paxil in children, finding that "if...
Mad In America Forums and Other Updates
Today we are launching discussion forums on Mad in America. We intend for these forums to serve three broad purposes. 1) Furthering discussion of the issues raised here. 2) Sharing personal experiences with psychiatric drugs, and 3) Providing a platform for personal networking and activism.
Psychiatry as a Mixed Blessing
In the late 70’s, before the invention of CT scanners or MRI scanners, I practiced emergency medicine. Without these sophisticated tools, I had to look at a patient and make a decision about whether or not they appeared ill or in distress. A doctor had to examine the patient; smell the patient, touch the patient, talk to the patient; this was crucial to the decision making process of diagnosis and treatment. With that sort of background, why do my observations and opinions as a psychiatrist somehow no longer matter?
Stuart Shipko, MD – Long Bio
SHOOTING THE ODDS
Stuart Shipko, MD, has been a practicing physician for 34 years. Initially an emergency physician and family physician, he later became a...
The Americanization of Everyone
The indispensable Gianna Kalli points us toward the work of Ethan Watters, author of "Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche."
Beyond Meds...
Anosognosia: How Conjecture Becomes Medical “Fact”
Readers on this site have wondered how the notion of a "chemical imbalance" could have been accepted by so many when the research did not actually support the concept. A recent paper from the Treatment Advocacy Center that summarizes studies of anosognosia in psychosis gives some clue as to how this type of thinking becomes entrenched and accepted.
Will Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD) Reduce False Diagnosis of Bipolar Disorder in Children?
Neuroskeptic takes on a new paper that proposes a new DSM-5's diagnosis will reduce the epidemic of bipolar diagnosis in children, comparing it to fighting...
The Adverse Childhood Experiences Study
Gianna Kali reviews the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) study, "one of the largest investigations ever conducted to assess associations between childhood maltreatment and later-life...
Low Prevalence of Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome in Never-Treated Chronic Schizophrenia
Research from India indicates that "schizophrenia in the absence of antipsychotic drug treatment is not a factor contributing to high prevalence of metabolic abnormalities."
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GSK Releases Raw Data from Study 329
The inimitable 1 Boring Old Man stumbles on previously unreleased raw data from GlaxoSmithKline's controversial study of paroxetine in adolescent depression (study 329). The data...
Antipsychotic Nasal Spray
Soulful Sepulcher takes on Alexza's new inhalable version of Loxapine, Adasuve, finding that it may cause respiratory failure.
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Steven Morgan, Project Director of the Vermont Soteria Project, Reflects on Working With Psychosis
Soteria Vermont is a project of the Vermont state government, which seeks to be a leader in mental healthcare. When Hurricane Irene washed away...
How You and I Can Take Back Translational Medicine – THIS WEEK!
I've been hearing about translational medicine for a long time and wondering what it was. For the most part, it's a huge subsidy to...
Raising the Ritalin Generation
New York Times opinion piece on the overmedication of ADHD in children.
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The History and Future of Our Psychiatric Survivor Movement
Brothers and sisters, I want to tell you a little movement history which I am sure many of you don't know.
Search Nursing Home Deficiency Reports
ProPublica offers an interactive tool that lets you search nursing home inspection reports for problems such as antipsychotic overprescribing.
ProPublica Offers Searchable Database of Nursing Home Inspection Reports
ProPublica now offers a searchable database of 20,000 nursing home inspection reports, a service which may assist in determining homes that have violated guidelines...
The Wind Never Lies
When I was young I believed the world spoke to me. Lightning split across the sky to the pulse of my thoughts. Rings around...
The Cinema Shooting and the Psychiatric Defense
Behaviorism and Mental Health analyzes he circular reasoning that results in psychiatric diagnoses and the psychiatric defense.
Behaviorism and Mental Health →
Update on DSM-5 by 1 Boring Old Man
1 Boring Old Man does a status analysis of the DSM-5, finding that the DSM-5 has moved beyond the restraint of earlier versions, which...
Disavow A Paxil Study Once And For All?
Pharmalot writes of a Paxil study which has been discredited for a decade, but never retracted or nor its authors rebuked despite the wide-ranging...
