All Quiet On The Psych Front
This has been a remarkably news-free week in the mental health world, allowing me to take a small break even. But don't be lulled into complacency. The American Psychiatric Association begins its annual convention over the weekend and that means loads of new data sets will be coming from researchers next week and loads of inflated claims will be issued by pharma companies. "Seroquel is highly efficacious for SBD!" "Zyprexa for kids!" And so on.
Also, John Nash will be delivering the keynote address at the convention and he speaks publicly about mental illness so infrequently that I haven't the faintest what he will say.
Stay tuned.
Posted by Philip Dawdy at May 18, 2007 12:01 AM
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And also on May 19, somewhat ironically, thousands of miles away Michael Moore's new movie Sicko will be showing at the Cannes Film Festival. I am hoping that at least part of this film is going to be devoted to skewering some of the things going on in the practice of psychiatry. It should be interesting.
