Two slightly differing views of prescription rates in the United States. Taken together, they remind us that what goes on with the prescribing of psychotropic medications is quite complicated. The first from Charles Barber, author recently of Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation.
An 2006, an astonishing 227 million prescriptions for antidepressants were [...]
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On Prescribing Rates of Psychotropics
Posted in Big Pharma, consumer interest, medical model, psychotropic drugs, public interest on February 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The Norming of America
Posted in Big Pharma, bipolar disorder, blogging, consumer interest, diagnosis, manic depression, medical model on February 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
A post from Wired on the over-medication of America. It dovetails nicely with another observation at Furious Seasons. The Furious Seasons post may be a flat-out rant, but it’s rant worth reading. Excerpts from both. First Wired:
Sometime in the 1990s, the concept of better living through chemistry turned a corner, thanks to drug companies’ efforts [...]
Hard Facts and Cold Comfort
Posted in research, what psychologists do on February 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A divide in the practice of psychology.
One of the nice things about psychology is that it encompasses a variety of approaches. The therapists do have an eye on current research, and will incorporate findings into practice, where possible. An article by Mary Sykes Wylie in the Psychotherapy Networker on trauma researcher Bessel van der Kolk [...]
Torture Update
Posted in consumer interest, interrogation, public interest, torture, what psychologists do on February 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Psychologists’ role in interrogations.
Here’s some recent news, courtesy of Ken Pope, from the psychologists in interrogations issue written about previously on this blog. The text is excerpted from a statement on California Senate Bill 219 by Leonard S. Rubenstein, President of Physicians for Human Rights, and does a nice job of highlighting the problem [...]
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