2018 Newsletter
Society for Research in Psychopathology (SRP)
NOVEMBER 12, 2018
SRP Newsletter 2018
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Eleanor Maccoby, PhD (1917-2018): Early Pioneer in Gender Studies and Child Development
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As part of Women's Health Month, ADAA's Women Mental Health SIG presents a series of blogs and videos showcasing women trailblazers in the mental health sector.
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The Influence of Paid Opinion Leaders on Antidepressant Prescribing in the UK
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JANUARY 5, 2024
In October 2018, the Editor-in-Chief of the BMJ, Fiona Godlee said: ‘We don’t let judges or journalists take money from the people they are judging or reporting on: we shouldn’t let doctors do this either.
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How Psychiatrists Responded to the Launch of Our New ECT Survey
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Beliefs of people taking antidepressants about causes of depression and reasons for increased prescribing rates. Journal of Affective Disorders, 168, 236-242. CARTWRIGHT, C., Personal agency in women’s recovery from depression: The impact of antidepressants and women’s personal efforts. Clinical Psychologist, 22, 72-82. GIBSON, K., WILLIAMS, J.
Algorithm Poem #1 by Steven T. Licardi
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His second collection of poetry, ‘a billion burning dreams’ (STL, 2018) traces his own mental health journey. His ever-evolving performance work in community with others has been creating (im)possible worlds in service of collective liberation.
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Interpersonal Caring as an Act of Resistance Among Socially Marginalized
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Now, as antiretroviral therapy (ART) becomes more accessible and people with HIV live longer, it is important to remember that palliative care also constitutes an important aspect of HIV care (Harding, 2018), and it is this form of interpersonal care among the residents that I attend to in this essay. and Trundle, C. Harding, R.
That Others May Live: An Airman’s Mental Health and Medication Hurricane
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A month later, my leadership and I felt that I was well enough to return to the SNCO Academy in January, 2018 to complete the training program I left when my brother died. I attended my first event with TAPS in June of 2018 and immediately found transformative support.
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Suicides Increase After National Suicide Prevention Introduced
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In 2018, it partnered with Johnson & Johnson to promote the campaign No veteran left behind,which featured Tom Hanks and urged all Americans to reach out to veterans in crisis and help get them mental health services. Unfortunately, the Veterans Administration has also been corrupted by the industry.
Psychiatric Patients Restrained at Sky-High Rates at This L.A. Hospital
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General psychiatric inpatients were restrained at a rate 10 times higher than at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, according to The Times’ analysis of data from 2018 to 2021, the most recent year available. Its restraint rate was also far higher than the two other L.A. ‘It doesn’t make sense to me that patients in L.A.
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Desperate Measures: Ghaemi’s Response to Our Review of Lithium and Suicide Prevention
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Moncrieff, 2008 ; Moncrieff, 2018 ). While, in contrast, most biological psychiatrists admit we do not understand the biological basis of bipolar disorder (Harrison et al, 2018) or the mechanism of action of lithium (Chokhawala et al, 2024 ), they regularly make similar arguments to justify the disease-modifying effects of other drugs.
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Researchers Accuse Lancet Article and British Psychiatrists of Minimising Antidepressants’ Withdrawal Effects
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In my 33 years of clinical practice, I can recall them on the fingers of one hand.’
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The Connection Cure: An Interview with Julia Hotz
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In 2018, the U.K. Hotz: I found the first mention of social prescribing during my qualitative exploration of loneliness in 2018. And it was through them that I heard about social prescribing, which back in 2018 was very, very hush-hush. established a Minister of Loneliness, which intrigued me. Where did this term even come up?
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New Guidelines on How to Accurately Convey ADHD Information
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The creation of the guidelines began in 2018, when the Dutch research collective ‘Druk & Dwars’ (Wild and Willful) initiated a taskforce for their development. The guidelines are meant to help explain what research on ADHD has actually found, its strengths and limitations, and more accurate ways to express what the classification means.
Giving Caregivers a Platform: Sherita, Mother of Tony
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Tony, son of Sherita I watched my son, who was struggling from all of the previous medications he was given prior to May 2018, but he was still able to function. In July of 2018, Tony drove down to Virginia Beach where he consumed a large amount of [the “supplement”] Kratom and he almost drowned.
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“War Cry For Change”: Veterans Launch Campaign for Informed Consent and Safe Deprescribing at the VA
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I n 2018, still in the throes of painful withdrawal from a psychiatric drug cocktail, U.S. Air Force veteran Derek Blumke began connecting the dots.
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Giving Caregivers a Platform: Meagan, Mother of Matt
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For a period of four years, from 2014 through 2018 during his decline and overwhelm, Matt was prescribed five different antidepressants layered on top of one another without tapering, which ignited a cycle of adverse reactions. It soon became clear that other than numbing him out, they were not helping.
Mood Tracking: My System for Reducing Psychiatric Hospitalizations
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However, my paranoid thoughts began to subside shortly after I left my job in early 2018. Since leaving my job in 2018 I have held only part-time jobs (though one of these was for a very prestigious organization). Around the 2016 hospitalization my diagnosis was elevated to schizoaffective disorder and I was placed on everyday Zyprexa.
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Iatrogenic Practices in Psychiatry: Kindling
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Fioriti Editore (2018) The suspension of psychotropic drugs, a manual for prescribers, therapists, patients and their families – Mad in Italy (mad-in-italy.com) A. The Sign Factory (2024) Suspending psychotropic drugs: how and why – Building a personalized and effective path – Mad in Italy (mad-in-italy.com) P.
When HVN Ireland Meets HVN Athens
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We prefer the term ‘voice-hearers’ rather than ‘psychosis’ or ‘schizophrenia’ as the former term is less stigmatising and more human, common, and everyday.
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Society of Biological Psychiatry (SOBP). - Untitled Article
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JULY 3, 2017
Click here to continue reading 2018 Meeting Save-the-Date! Society of Biological Psychiatry 73rd Annual Scientific Meeting May 10-12, 2018 Hilton Midtown New York New York, New York To view important submission dates, please visit our website. In sum, we had another great conference!
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Antidepressants May Hasten Decline From Dementia, Study Says
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The study, published Monday in the journal BMC Medicine, analyzed medical data from 2007 to 2018 on 4,271 people with dementia enrolled in the Swedish Registry for Cognitive/Dementia Disorders, a repository on dementia research. All the participants had been on antidepressants for at least six months before the study began.
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Elder Eyes Wide Shut
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In 2018, true crime director Billie Mintz released The Guardians, an expose on a legal kidnapping business in Nevada. I had a visceral reaction. The lawyers, the courts, the nursing staff, and the victims spit lyrics verbatim of what Lilly had told me.
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New research highlights trends in ADHD diagnoses
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The study found a significant downward trends in ADHD incidence among adults from 2016 to 2020 and adolescents from 2016 to 2018. New research identifies differing trends in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) diagnoses among adolescents and adults, including an increase among adults from 2020 to 2023.
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Letter from the Newsletter Editor, October 2017
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SEPTEMBER 27, 2017
Helloeveryone, In this issue of our newsletter, we are pleased to announce the theme of our meeting in New York May 10-12, 2018: ” Biomarkers, Biomodels and Psychiatric Disorders. 12, 2018 Late Breaking Oral and Poster Abstracts Open Mar. 5, 2018 Late Breaking Oral and Poster Abstracts Due I hope to see you there!
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What Helped and What Hindered My Recovery from PSSD and Protracted Withdrawal from Antidepressants?
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In the photo on the left, I am about a month after quitting 100 mg of sertraline (early 2018). Regular physical activity proved to be a lifesaver, giving my body the right stimulus to start the healing process.
What Is Beyond a Diagnosis?
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Caspi and Moffat in their 2018 paper, “All for One and One for All; Mental Disorders in One Dimension,” published in the American Journal of Psychiatry, state that “empirical evidence has now accrued to suggest that a single dimension is able to measure a person’s liability to mental disorder.”
Deadly Prescriptions: New Study Links Antipsychotics to Life-Threatening Risks in Dementia Patients
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” To be included in the current research, service users had to receive a dementia diagnosis between January 1, 1998, and May 31, 2018, be at least 50 years old when dementia was first diagnosed, and have no prescriptions for antipsychotics in the 365 days prior to their dementia diagnosis.
Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 15: Withdrawal of Psychiatric Drugs
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By the end of 2017, psychiatrist Jan Vestergaard tried to get a two-hour symposium about drug withdrawal on the programme for the annual meeting of the Danish Psychiatric Association in 2018. Even though the meeting lasted four days, with parallel sessions, the board declared there wasn’t room for the symposium.
Not Before Time: Lived Experience Led Justice and Repair
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The project emerged in a specific geographical and historical context: between 2018-2021, a Royal Commission was convened to examine the Mental Health System in Victoria, Australia. The Not Before Time: Lived Experience Led Justice and Repair project endeavoured to address such questions.
Study: Nicotine, Tobacco Use Linked to Teens’ ADHD Symptom Levels, Treatment
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A 10-year follow-up study of young adults with ADHD. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry , 50(6), 543553. link] 3 Goldenson, N. Leventhal, A. Associations of ADHD symptoms with smoking and alternative tobacco product use initiation during adolescence. Journal of Pediatric Psychology , 43(6), 613624.
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Remembrances of Linda Andre, Leader in the Fight Against ECT
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In December 2018, Linda was evicted from her 2-bedroom affordable housing apartment, a Mitchell-Lama co-op that she owned. Linda stayed in my apartment 18 days and nights during 2018, over eight consecutive weekends, including one 4-day Memorial Day weekend. When Linda was moved to MPC TLR, she still had a court appointed guardian.
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The Psychiatric Diagnostic Evaluation: Medical Expertise or Smoke And Mirrors?
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NOVEMBER 21, 2023
Wellesley, M “A Load Of Ballokis” London Review of Books, 23 April 2018. . “The Emperor’s New Drugs: Exploding The Antidepressant Myth”, Basic Books, New York, 2010. The post The Psychiatric Diagnostic Evaluation: Medical Expertise or Smoke And Mirrors? appeared first on Mad In America.
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How Epigenetics Could Revolutionize ADHD Care
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Silveira, R. Procianoy, R. A., & Moreira-Maia, C. Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and Very Preterm/Very Low Birth Weight: A Meta-analysis. Pediatrics, 141(1), e20171645. link] 4 MacKinnon, N., Kingsbury, M., Evans, J., & Colman, I.
When One Size Doesn’t Fit All
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FEBRUARY 27, 2025
While they found some general agreement in the average results between group-level data and individual outcomes, they also found that the variability across statistical estimates derived from individuals was 2 to 4 times greater than the variability measured in the groups. Nature Human Behavior , 5 , 980989. Fisher, A. Medaglia, J. Holzmeister, F.,
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Dramatic Rise in Police Interventions on 988 Callers
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Since Vibrant and SAMHSA have for years refused to publicly release data on these interventions, it’s unclear if the rates have risen steadily across the country since 2018, or if the launch of 988 precipitated a sudden, massive increase. What’s driving it?
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F.O.M.H. by illexotic
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illexotic has been making music since 2018 and more recently began DJing in clubs and raves in San Francisco, CA and beyond. She seeks to champion peer support in the form of community and support as an alternative to psychiatry and forced treatment.
In Defense of Open Dialogue Research
Mad in America
MARCH 7, 2024
Psychiatry Research 2018; 270:168–17. . ↩ Bergström T, Seikkula J, Alakare B, Mäki P, Köngäs-Saviaro P, Taskila J, Tolvanen A, & Aaltonen J. The family-oriented open dialogue approach in the treatment of first-episode psychosis: Nineteen–year outcomes.
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Spravato Approved for Treatment-Resistant Depression
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Poster W80. 2 Babinski DE, Neely KA, Ba DM, Liu GL (2020) Depression and suicidal behavior in young adult men and women with ADHD: Evidence from claims data. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry , 81 (6) 7-13. 3 Zhang, Z., Jin, J., & Zheng, Z. BMC Psychiatry, 18. link] 4 Depression and Other Common Mental Disorders: Global Health Estimates.
Tips for Estimating Power in Complex Statistical Models
Association for Psychological Science (APS)
FEBRUARY 28, 2025
Alternatively, WebPower (Zhang & Yuan, 2018) lets you do the same, as long as you can guesstimate the underlying covariance matrix. And Muthn and Muthn (2002) have outlined Mplus methods for power estimation, as long as you can write the program to analyze your data in Mplus. Zhang, Z., & Yuan, K.-H. ISDSA Press.
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Observational Studies Confirm Trial Results That Antidepressants Double Suicides
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FEBRUARY 8, 2025
Kbenhavn: FADLs Forlag; 2018, page 119. The subjective experience of taking antipsychotic medication: a content analysis of Internet data. Acta Psychiatr Scand 2009;120:102-11. 19 Videbech P, Kjlbye M, Srensen T, Vestergaard P (red.). En lrebog om voksnes psykiske sygdomme. 20 Hengartner MP, Amendola S, Kaminski JA, et al.
My Red October – An Army Veteran’s Crucible to Recovery
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JUNE 17, 2024
But by the end of 2018, life started to become overwhelming. I began talk therapy and peer support programs, and started holistic treatments such as meditation. Through all of this, I felt the issues she raised were merited and I felt that I’d significantly improved over these four years.
Prescription Drugs Are the Leading Cause of Death
Mad in America
APRIL 16, 2024
Antidepressant use among adults: United States, 2015-2018. Psychiatrist.com 2015;Oct 21. 31 Maust DT, Lin LA, Blow FC. Benzodiazepine use and misuse among adults in the United States. Psychiatr Serv 2019;70:97-106. 32 Brody DJ, Gu Q. CDC 2020;Sept. 33 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Leading Causes of Death. 2024;Jan 17.
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