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Exploiting the Placebo Effect:  Legitimate Practice or Chicanery?

January 19, 2015 By Phil Hickey |

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

Antidepressant-induced Mania

January 12, 2015 By Phil Hickey |

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

Mass Murderers and Psychiatric Drugs

September 22, 2014 By Phil Hickey |

There’s an interesting article in the current issue of the National Psychologist written by David Kirschner, PhD, a New York psychologist.  The National Psychologist is a newspaper-type magazine that publishes articles of general interest to psychologists and others working in this field.  Most issues contain a mix of opinion pieces, news, changes in government regulations,… Continue Reading

More Bogus Conclusions From More Bogus Research

August 21, 2014 By Phil Hickey |

Robert Findling, MD, is a pediatrician and a psychiatrist.  He is the Director of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins Children’s Center, and Vice President of Psychiatric Services and Research at the Kennedy Krieger Institute. On July 31, Dr. Findling published a brief video (and article) on Medscape:  Adverse Events Caused by a Drug… Continue Reading

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