April 11th 2024
Take a look back at our recent coverage relating to our April content theme.
Fighting the Wrong War on Drugs
August 30th 2012Seventy percent of antidepressants are prescribed by primary care doctors with little training in their proper use, under intense pressure from Big Pharma, drug salespeople, and misled patients, after rushed 7-minute appointments and subject to no systematic auditing. The cash-strapped FDA is beholden to industry for funding. And it gets worse.
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Eliciting the Phenomenon of Schizophrenia From an Autobiographical Narrative
August 28th 2012In spite of a chronic mental illness (schizophrenia)and a psyche that increasingly blurred the boundaries between fantasy and reality, this lawyer and professor graduated from Vanderbilt with a perfect academic record.
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Effects of New Antipsychotics and Adjunctive Therapy for Schizophrenia (Video: 4:05 minutes)
August 21st 2012What effect has the new antipsychotic Latuda had in patients with psychosis? Is a mood stabilizer as an adjunctive therapy necessary for schizophrenia or is the use of an antipsychotic alone sufficient?
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Effective Personalized Strategies for Treating Bipolar Disorder
August 2nd 2012Effective personalized treatment recognizes bipolar disorder as a biopsychosocial disorder, but mood-stabilizing medications are the backbone of treatment. These medications fall into 3 categories: lithium, antikindling/antiepileptic agents, and second-generation antipsychotics.
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Introduction: Dementia, Delirium, Depression, Drugs, and Driving
July 28th 2012Of the 3 informative articles included in this special geriatric collection, 1 offers a perspective on the treatment of depression that does not focus on somatotherapy. The others remind us of 2 additional geriatric Ds of importance: drugs and driving.
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How to End a Psychiatric Epidemic: The Redemption of Psychiatry
June 12th 2012In light of our problems and uncertainties about the state of current psychiatry, or perhaps because of them, what might describe good psychiatry? Following are some suggestions for what we, as psychiatrists, can do.
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Spitzer Recants: Why Can’t the APA Admit Mistakes and Correct Them?
May 31st 2012Let’s compare Dr Robert Spitzer's apology to the gay community with the stonewalling that has characterized every step in the development of DSM-5. The American Psychiatric Association has a lot to apologize for-but instead maintains a defensive posture that prevents insight and self-correction.
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Wonderful News: DSM-5 Finally Begins Its Belated And Necessary Retreat
May 5th 2012For the first time in its history, DSM-5 has shown some flexibility and capacity to correct itself. Hopefully, this is just the beginning of what will turn out to be a number of other necessary DSM-5 retreats.
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Definitive Study Rejects the Diagnosis of “Psychosis Risk” and Finds No Treatment Benefit
April 17th 2012An excellent study has killed two birds with one stone. It is a clear caution against the DSM-5 proposal for a psychosis risk syndrome and it should temper enthusiasm for rushing ahead with "ultra high risk" prevention programs.
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Does Evidence-Based Medicine Discourage Richer Assessment of Psychopathology and Treatment?
April 5th 2012The paradigm for modern psychiatry is evidence-based medicine (EBM)-it represents proven treatments for defined diagnoses. But there are major problems with this position, starting with the fact that while they are superior to placebo, evidence-based treatments too often are ineffective.
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