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Dr. Lieberman and ’60 Minutes’

November 4, 2013 By Phil Hickey |

On October 23, Psychiatric News (the APA’s media outlet) ran an article titled ‘60 Minutes’ Interviews APA President on Schizophrenia.  The article was written by Mark Moran, a Psychiatric News reporter. The piece opens with a quote from Jeffrey Lieberman, MD (President of the APA): “’60 Minutes’ showed a genuine interest beyond simply producing what… Continue Reading

Protecting the Children

November 3, 2013 By Phil Hickey |

  I’ve recently read an article called Safeguarding a Generation of Children from Over-diagnosis and Prescription of Psychotropic Drugs.  It’s written by Dave Traxson, who works as an Educational Psychologist in the UK, and is posted on the  DxSummit website, an online platform for rethinking mental health, a forum in which the concepts underlying pharma-psychiatry… Continue Reading

The Allen Frances – Lucy Johnstone Debate

November 1, 2013 By Phil Hickey |

On October 28, Allen Frances, MD, Chairperson of the DSM-IV task force, published an article on Psychology Today.  It is titled Does It Make Sense To Scrap Psychiatric Diagnosis? and is essentially a response to the British Psychological Society’s Division of Clinical Psychology’s (DCP) call to abandon the medical model in situations where it is… Continue Reading

Cover-up of a Wrongful Death?

October 28, 2013 By Phil Hickey |

THE CAFÉ study was published in the American Journal of Psychiatry in July 2007, and was funded by AstraZeneca.  Its stated purpose was to compare AstraZeneca’s drug Seroquel (quetiapine) with other neuroleptic products.  I have discussed the CAFÉ study here. Two of CAFÉ’s participants committed suicide during the study period.  Both had been randomly assigned… Continue Reading

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