That's right: A study in this month's American Journal of Psychiatry was written up by the BBC yesterday--not sure if there was a report on the radio or TV--and framed as establishing that anti-depressants work "instantly" to quote the BBC's...
Posted in Furious Seasons on October 27, 2009 12:05 AM
Can I just say that John McManamy, author the Knowledge Is Necessity blog and the book "Living Well with Depression and Bipolar Disorder," is an out-of-touch fool? Back in February, he alleged that I engaged in "dumb anti-psychiatry" for daring...
Posted in Furious Seasons on October 16, 2009 12:03 AM
I'm sure some of you will get a chuckle out of this: in November, the International Forum on Mood and Anxiety Disorders (website) will hold its annual conference, this year in Monaco, and one of the conference topics will be...
Posted in Furious Seasons on April 17, 2009 12:01 AM
So John McManamy has gone and done it--gone and called my writing "dumb antipsychiatry." Seriously, you can check out that humdinger right here. McManamy is the author of "Living Well with Depression and Bipolar Disorder," but one wonders how well...
Posted in Furious Seasons on February 20, 2009 12:01 AM
Today, I am beginning the spring fundraiser for this site. Yes, I know it's still technically winter, but the fundraiser in early December was dubbed winter, so this one shall be spring. I'm starting this fundraiser five days earlier than...
Posted in Furious Seasons on February 18, 2009 12:05 AM
I know those of you who dislike the controversial Harvard child psychiatrist Joseph Biederman, creator of the bipolar child paradigm among other things, won't especially care for this Boston Globe article from the other day wherein Biederman is defended by...
Posted in Furious Seasons on February 3, 2009 12:03 AM
Amidst the many bizarre revelations around the conflict of interest scandal around academic psychiatric researchers and Big Pharma being probed by Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) comes the oddest revelation of them all. In 2000, Emory University psychiatrist Charles Nemeroff wrote...
Posted in Furious Seasons on December 18, 2008 11:45 AM
Ironically, two separate op-eds by two different children's doctors appeared yesterday. Each made similar and different points. First up was Leonard Sax, a psychologist and physician and author of Boys Adrift: The Five Factors Driving The Growing Epidemic of Unmotivated...
Posted in Furious Seasons on December 15, 2008 12:03 AM
Counting Friday, Saturday and Sunday morning, another $316.26 came in. That brings the total contributed so far to $1,211.26, leaving $1,788.74 to go to reach the fundraiser's overall goal of $3,000 around Dec. 15. Thanks to everyone for their support....
Posted in Furious Seasons on December 7, 2008 09:46 AM
Another $225 came in yesterday, bring the total for the fundraiser to $560. That leaves $2,440 to go to reach the goal of $3,000 around about Dec. 15. I appreciate the contributions to date. So far, 18 readers have contributed...
Posted in Furious Seasons on December 4, 2008 12:11 AM
John McManamy, who blogs over at HealthCentral.com on bipolar disorder and depression, has for the second time gone after the New York Times and its crack reporter Gardiner Harris, who covers public health for the paper in its DC bureau,...
Posted in Furious Seasons on December 4, 2008 12:01 AM
You read that headline right. A new study came out yesterday in the Archives of General Psychiatry asserting that about half of college-age Americans have a psychiatric disorder of some kind during a one-year period. The study abstract is not...
Posted in Furious Seasons on December 2, 2008 12:01 AM
Danny Carlat, a Tufts University psychiatrist, writes of the conflict of interest scandals around Harvard child psychiatrist Joseph Biederman and leading bipolar disorder researcher Fred Goodwin today. Of particular interest to me was Carlat's account of Goodwin's response to a...
Posted in Furious Seasons on December 1, 2008 10:23 AM
As I do every three months, today I'm beginning this site's winter fundraiser. The goal is to raise $3,000 over the next two weeks. The fall fundraiser was a big success and ended early, and I hope that's the case...
Posted in Furious Seasons on December 1, 2008 12:05 AM
On Sunday, the New York Times' editorial page went after the twin conflict of interest sagas of Harvard child psychiatrist Joseph Biederman and leading bipolar disorder researcher Fred Goodwin, conflicts that have been well-documented on this site as well. The...
Posted in Furious Seasons on December 1, 2008 12:01 AM
Yesterday a reader informed me that Fred Goodwin, at the center of the recent controversy around "The Infinite Mind" radio show, had been involved in a very messy incident back in 1992. Goodwin, author of the primary medical text on...
Posted in Furious Seasons on November 25, 2008 12:01 AM
I have corrected this post at NPR's request as I had incorrectly identified "The Infinite Mind" as being NPR-distributed when in fact it was only on NPR's Sirius channel. I've changed the description to "NPR-connected." To clarify further for readers,...
Posted in Furious Seasons on November 24, 2008 12:03 AM
Today's New York Times has news that Sen. Charles Grassley has caught yet another researcher in his conflict of interest probe. This time out, it's Fred Goodwin--perhaps the most influential researcher and writer in the world of bipolar disorder--and the...
Posted in Furious Seasons on November 21, 2008 08:29 AM
Yesterday, I reported that the FDA's psychiatry products chief, Thomas Laughren, and the FDA itself were refusing to answer questions about pediatric bipolar disorder which the agency had two weeks previously determined unilaterally was a valid diagnosis. The FDA's move...
Posted in Furious Seasons on August 15, 2008 09:16 AM
There was an interesting and odd article on MSN Health yesterday. Interesting because it examined the question of why different people have such wildly different responses to anti-depressants--everything from the classic "better than well" response to no response to violence...
Posted in Furious Seasons on May 30, 2008 12:03 AM
Jeanne Lenzer and Shannon Brownlee--co-authors of the recent Slate piece criticizing "The Infinite Mind" radio show for, among other things, not revealing its ties to the pharma industry and for not revealing the pharma ties of its host and guests...
Posted in Furious Seasons on May 10, 2008 10:00 AM
It's just been brought to my attention that Bill Lichtenstein has posted a response to the Slate.com piece earlier this week taking "The Infinite Mind" to task for not disclosing its Big Pharma funding as well as the ties to...
Posted in Furious Seasons on May 9, 2008 12:42 PM
The fine folks at Forest Labs today rolled out results from a clinical trial of teens diagnosed with major depression, while carefully noting that the drug is not approved for use in treating depression in teens. Let the off label...
Posted in Furious Seasons on May 7, 2008 12:34 PM
Excellent piece on Slate.com today detailing Big Pharma influence on "health and science" programs in the media. It paid particular attention to "The Infinite Mind," a program hosted by Fred Goodwin, who as most of you know is one of...
Posted in Furious Seasons on May 6, 2008 01:34 PM
I've gotten a few emails recently about the radio program "The Infinite Mind," which is a public radio show here in the US. I don't catch the program on-air anymore since it's not broadcast in the Seattle area these days....
Posted in Furious Seasons on April 14, 2008 12:05 AM
Thanks to those of you who bird-dogged my recent site tweaks. If anyone notices anything missing or wants to suggest other blogs, let me know. Man on Lexapro gets worse, docs prescribe Paxil and Risperdal, three days later man jumps...
Posted in Furious Seasons on April 2, 2007 11:48 AM
Decision Resources, whom I've dinged before, is back at it again with their gold standards. Brandweek and CL Psych have the details. Man, DR flings gold around more than Snoop Dogg. Intueri goes to the Washington State Psychiatric Association's convention....
Posted in Furious Seasons on March 27, 2007 12:23 PM
A reader left a fabulous question in response to an earlier post on Market Analyst Cognitive Disorder. "'...according to thought-leading psychiatrists.' What is a thought-leading psychiatrist?" The answer isn't especially precise, but the alleged thought leaders in the mental health...
Posted in Furious Seasons on February 20, 2007 04:35 PM
On October 11, 2002, Giedra Campbell emailed a group of Eli Lilly officials to "hammer out" clinical summary issues around at least one study on the use of Zyprexa in maintenance of bipolar disorder, according to a copy of the...
Posted in Furious Seasons on February 13, 2007 12:01 AM
There was an interesting story last week in Psychiatric Times. It was a curtain raiser on what the reporter promises will be a big year of data for psych MDs. Lots of studies on using atypicals in kids and adolescents--I...
Posted in Furious Seasons on January 24, 2007 12:01 AM
I ran across an old interview of Wayne Fenton, who was murdered on Sunday by a patient, from Fred Goodwin's "The Infinite Mind" series. Here is a show summary, explaining what Fenton had to say about violence among people with...
Posted in Furious Seasons on September 7, 2006 12:01 AM
I posted results from the latest round of the STAR*D trials yesterday, and then asked John McManamy, who has been tracking these issues religiously for a decade, what he thought. Here's his response: "The third round STAR*D results are definitely...
Posted in Furious Seasons on July 6, 2006 08:48 AM