"Culture of Influence" Eroding Public Trust in Psychiatrists

Caroline Cassels

March 26, 2010 - Public trust in psychiatry is being eroded by the specialty's real and perceived ties to the pharmaceutical industry, says a leading psychiatrist

In an editorial in this week's issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, Thomas Insel, MD ( Read more... )

This article is circa 1999, but no less relevant today. READ IT!  I defy you, and you know who you are, to relegate this to the same category as Glenn Beck sensationalism or to conclude that "people are just dumb" or "paranoid."  The credentials of the professionals who wrote this article speak for themselves.  You dear readers, may be aspiring ( Read more... )

A benevolent diagnostic tool or a harmful shill for the pharmaceutical companies?

April 20, 2010
Comments on Proposed Revisions to Gender Diagnoses in the DSM-5

GID Reform Advocates
www.gidreform.org

This February, the American Psychiatric Association published its proposed draft revisions for the Fifth Edition of the Diagnostic and ( Read more... )

Non-conformity, creativity, quirkiness? There's a pill for that

By Sharon Kirkey, Canwest News ServiceApril 30, 2010


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Is Free Thinking A Mental Illness?

Is nonconformity and freethinking a mental illness?  According to the newest addition of the DSM-IV (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders), it certainly is.  The manual identifies a new mental illness called “oppositional defiant disorder” or ODD.  Defined as an “ongoing pattern of ( Read more... )

Woman's persistence pays off in regenerated fingertip

By Elizabeth Cohen, CNN Senior Medical Correspondent
September 9, 2010 -- Updated 2051 GMT (0451 HKT)

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What can deliver snakebite medicine where it's needed?


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Ecstasy may help trauma victims

18:34 19 July 2010

Health

Arran Frood, contributor

MDMA, the drug commonly known as ecstasy, can help treat people with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) when used in conjunction with psychotherapy, according to a study published today in the Journal of Psychopharmacology.

The ( Read more... )

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The modern medical paradigm revolves around two words: scientifically proven.

It is this phrase that public health agencies, physicians, and researchers alike use to pedal their wares, so to speak. These little blue pills are scientifically proven to make you fall asleep, relieve your pain, feel less hungry, or lower your blood pressure, they ( Read more... )