On December 21, 2014, Vivek Datta, MD, published an article on Mad in America. It’s titled Psychiatry and the Problem of the Medical Model –Part 1. The same article appeared the day before on Dr. Datta’s own website. Dr. Datta begins by stating unambiguously: “Psychiatry is a branch of medicine. As such, psychiatrists apply the… Continue Reading
Exploiting the Placebo Effect: Legitimate Practice or Chicanery?
On June 13, 2014, Psychiatric Times published an article by Steve Balt, MD. The article is titled Assessing and Enhancing the Effectiveness of Antidepressants, and is a good deal more candid as to the efficacy of antidepressants than one normally encounters from psychiatry. Dr. Balt is a private practice psychiatrist in California. He is the… Continue Reading
Psychiatrists Providing Psychotherapy?
On December 29, Nassir Ghaemi, MD, a psychiatrist and a professor at Tufts Medical Center, published on Medscape an article titled Psychiatry Prospects for 2015: Out With the Old, In With the New? The article opens: “With the new year reviving old desires, one may wonder what, if anything, new will be in store for… Continue Reading
Antidepressant-induced Mania
It is generally recognized in antipsychiatry circles that antidepressant drugs induce manic or hypomanic episodes in some of the individuals who take them. Psychiatry’s usual response to this is to assert that the individual must have had an underlying latent bipolar disorder that has “emerged” in response to the improvement in mood. The problem with such… Continue Reading
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