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My new blog site is here. It will look a little different, and I hope you enjoy it. I owe such a debt to Gabe for his incredible work to bring this about.
There is a New Paradigm for Psychiatry - It is the ‘Play of Consciousness”, not molecular brain diseases.
Here’s a newsflash – the hope for a molecular-biochemical explanation for psychiatry is a false hope. Most of my field has come to expect and believe that we are on the verge of a new paradigm. This paradigm is based on the illusion that the workings of the brain on the molecular level has anything…
Psychotherapy Is the Real Deal. It is the effective treatment.
It is encouraging that more and more people - psychiatrists, patients, and researchers – are opposing drug treatments for depression, anxiety, and ADHD. But this is only half the battle. To oppose the direction that psychiatry, my field, has sunk comes with the obligation to right the ship. It is essential,…
A Call to Arms. The future of psychiatry is at stake.
Psychiatry is fast approaching a death spiral which we as a society may not be able to recover from. In many residencies, psychotherapy is not even being taught. Many psychotherapists of all professions – psychiatric, psychologists, and social workers have been intimidated by specious…
It’s time to scrap, “Innocent by reason of insanity”. Time to change to “Guilty By Reason of Insanity”
It’s time to scrap the insanity defense altogether – ‘Innocent by Reason of Insanity’. A crime should be defined by criminal behavior, not just by the state of mind of the accused. It ought to be replaced with a plea of “Guilty by Reason of Insanity’. The fallacy of the insanity plea is…
Enough is Enough Series #3: A Hallucinogen for Depression? Biological psychiatry is actually testing Ketamine or ‘Special K’ for depression.
The article, “Special K, a Hallucinogen, Raises Hopes and Concerns as a Treatment for Depression”, by Andrew Pollack, in the New York Times, December 9, 2014, tells how far afield, my field, psychiatry has really gone - that it is even a consideration to use an hallucinogen for the treatment…
Who Is Responsibe for Your Teenager's Behavior? Good Enough Boundaries and Love are the Most Important Guides
One day, a thirteen-year-old boy was walking down the street, or maybe he was on his bike, or watching a movie, or doing homework, or playing ball. He could have been doing anything. His morphogenic time clock kicked in and turned on his testosterone pump. It wasn’t noticeable at first blush. But…
Robin Williams' painful suicide. But the Autopsy is back.
I have stayed away from speculations about Robin Williams' suicide. I don’t know what pushed him over and neither do you. The autopsy showed that he had not been drinking or using illegal drugs, but he was taking prescription drugs. And what were they? It is important to take note that two of these…
Take the 'Fix' All the way to no Amphetamines
There's a suprisingly good article in the New York Sunday Review - "A Natural Fix for A.D.H.D." , by Richard A. Friedman. The only difference I have with the author, is that he does not go far enough. He has it right and then he pays homage to amphtetamines. At the end, he says, "This will not eliminate…
The Secret World of Schizophrenia - The tragedy of a promise unfulfilled.
The treatment for schizophrenia and manic-depression have shockingly deteriorated throughout my professional lifetime, dating back to 1971. During the hopeful period of deinstitutionalization, it seemed like we were turning the corner. We had expected that patients would return to the community.…
False Cure for PTSD - Erasing Bad Memories, Lobotomy by Laser
"Scientists find secret of reversing bad memories", published in the ‘Telegraph’ from an article in ‘Nature’, extends a dangerous trend in neuroscience – It makes false and non-credible promises from research. The troublesome aspect of this article is that it promises that optogenics -…
Are You a Participant or Are You an Observer? Do you engage with feeling, or analyze from afar?
The last of the four genetic elements of temperament is Participant/Observer. We have addressed the other elements – Internalizer/Externalizer, Introvert/Extrovert, and Active/Passive - as they digest maternal Nurture. The orientation as Participant or Observer determines how one relates…