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Tag Archives: psychiatry
Money, Money, Everywhere, But Not A Cent To Spend
The DSM is written mostly by academics, which is why it gets so excited about distinctions like schizoid personality versus schizotypal personality. If it were written by clinicians, it might better reflect the sort of cases that make it into … Continue reading
The Efficacy Of Everything In Psychiatry In One Graph Plus Several Pages Of Dense But Necessary Explanation
Shamelessly stolen from my hospital’s Journal Club: Huhn et al (2014) graph the Efficacy Of Pharmacotherapy And Psychotherapy For Adult Psychiatric Disorders, and it looks like this: Before anything else – we kind of have to assume that in each … Continue reading
Practically-A-Book Review: Dying To Be Free
I am the last person with a right to complain about Internet articles being too long. But if I did have that right, I think I would exercise it on Dying To Be Free, the Huffington Post’s 20,000-word article on … Continue reading
Depression Is Not A Proxy For Social Dysfunction
I. Here is a terrible article from the New York Post: Sorry, Liberals, Scandinavian Countries Aren’t Utopias. Its thesis is interesting and worth exploring, but instead of a principled investigation, the article just publishes a bunch of cherry-picked smears about … Continue reading
The Phatic And The Anti-Inductive
I. Ozy recently taught me the word “phatic”. It means talking for the sake of talking. The classic example is small talk. “Hey.” “Hey.” “How are you?” Fine, and you?” “Fine.” No information has been exchanged. Even if the person … Continue reading
Chronic Psychitis
Some people have asked my opinion on a recent spate of articles like Is Depression Partly Caused By An Allergic Reaction? and Depression May Be Caused By Inflammation. Standard disclaimer: I’m not a researcher in this field, I’m not board-certified … Continue reading
Such Mixed Feelings About Crazymeds
Crazymeds.us is an excellent and highly informative site which I will never recommend to my patients. It’s excellent because it gives mostly accurate and readable descriptions of the costs and benefits of every psychiatric medication. It has a laser-like focus … Continue reading
Prisons Are Built With Bricks Of Law And Brothels With Bricks Of Religion, But That Doesn’t Prove A Causal Relationship
Research Suggests Psychiatric Interventions Like Admission To A Mental Hospital Could Increase Suicide Risk says an Alternet article about a study that specifically mentions that it should not be used to conclude that psychiatric interventions like admission to a mental … Continue reading
The Right To Waive Your Rights
I do understand the logic behind not allowing just any old contract to be legally binding. The reductio ad absurdum is the EULA that says “By opening this product, you agree not to sue us if this product malfunctions and … Continue reading
Alcoholics Anonymous: Much More Than You Wanted To Know
[EDIT 10/27: Slight changes in response to feedback; correcting some definitions. I am not an expert in this field and will continue to make changes as I learn about them. There is a critique of this post here and other … Continue reading