Psychiatrists Archive
Neuroscience
NIMH announced its new director earlier this year. He seems to be the love child of a couple of older gents in his profession. We can expect the usual: …
Drugs
Before Antidepressants, you know, He Wasted Away in a Mental Institution. That’s the name for a gripping anecdote, as re-told for the readership of the Daily Beast by Tara Wanda Merrigan. …
Drugs
The birth of modern psychiatry has probably been memorialized more than a few times. Among the events that qualify is the first use of an antipsychotic drug on a psychiatric …
Psychiatrists
I answer questions on Quora.com as dispassionately as I can. For this question, I found myself writing an answer that wasn’t going to be helpful to the person who asked …
Drugs
If the depressed young man had been visited by Charles Manson the day before, we'd all blame Manson. Why is the "crisis team" not seen as a likely cause …
Drugs
"We wouldn't be sitting here if she had told me that!" Holmes' mother said, her sobs rising to anger. "I would have been crawling on all fours to get …
Psychiatrists
Psychiatrists who’ve been irritated by decades of criticism and insults from anti-psychiatry coalitions can be excused for savoring recent press coverage of the American Psychological Association’s colossal cock-up (APA). The …
Drugs
How forceful can a poorly supported argument (that wasn't made) really be, when (not made) against something that doesn't exist? Surely more forceful than Taylor's subsequent lapse into word …