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Psychiatry struggles to cope with its inherent uncertainty

Critical Psychiatry

previous post and my 2002 article ). He was so panicked that psychiatric diagnosis may be unreliable that he initiated the process of taking psychiatry, particularly American psychiatry down the DSM route to its dead end in DSM-5 (see eg.

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What happened to the Serotonin Hypothesis?

Real Psychiatry

One short answer is "between 1995 and 2002." 2002) Neuropsychopharmacology: The Fifth Generation of Progress. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2002. These terms are much more common in physical sciences where the studied objects are more easily classified and experimental observations are clearer.

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Self Stolen: How ECT Fried My Brain

Mad in America

A traumatic brain injury in 2002 didn’t help anything. I attended the University of Colorado and studied Aerospace Engineering, and most importantly at the time, I ski raced. I struggled despite all my efforts, struggled greatly.

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The Clinical, Social, and Cultural Harm of an Iatrogenic Psychiatry

Mad in America

T he harm caused by the medical profession is called iatrogenesis , and in 1975, Ivan Illich (1926-2002) published Medical Nemesis (republished titled Limits to Medicine ) in which he discussed the clinical, social, and cultural iatrogenesis of modern medicine. Antidepressants? John’s wort-treated patients).

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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 16: Is There Any Future for Psychiatry? (Part Three)

Mad in America

209,640 Lundbeck patented the active half of citalopram (Celexa or Cipramil) before the patent ran out and called the rejuvenated drug escitalopram (Cipralex or Lexapro), which it launched in 2002. 639 Psychiatrists are also “educated” with industry’s hospitality more often than any other specialty.

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Bad Science Revisited: “The Bell Curve” Turns 30

Mad in America

Blacks of 2002 would have outscored U.S. Moral philosopher and IQ researcher James Flynn called the world’s attention to the fact that, due to these gains, IQ test creators periodically revise their tests to make them more difficult. They do so to maintain a mean score of 100 and a bell-shaped score distribution. Whites of 1947-48 by 4.3

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Mastery of Language Could Predict Longevity

Association for Psychological Science (APS)

Previous research has uncovered an unlikely factor related to longevity: intelligence (Bckman & MacDonald, 2006; Bosworth & Siegler, 2002). Everyone ages, but, sometimes, people outlive all predictions. However, intelligence isnt a simple characteristic. European Psychologist , 11 (3), 224235. Baltes, P. B., & Mayer, K.