Tue.Mar 26, 2024

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Time machine by Hussein Hammoud

Mad in America

One day I got so smart that I built my own time machine. Right away I went back and un-kissed the girl who broke my heart, I made friends who did not get into so much trouble, and I saved myself the embarrassment of fighting through all the battles I never won. When I came back I realized that though it takes a smart man to build a time machine, a wise man knows very well that the best thing such a machine can offer anyone is the opportunity to go back and make more mistakes, not fewer.

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Increased Risk for Suicide Attempts Among Children Who Use Tobacco Products

Psychiatry Advisor

Researchers evaluated whether tobacco product use was associated with an increased risk for suicidality among children, using Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development data. The post Increased Risk for Suicide Attempts Among Children Who Use Tobacco Products appeared first on Psychiatry Advisor.

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STAR*D: It is time to atone and retract

Mad in America

From Psychiatric Times: Two psychiatrists write in the Psychiatric Times that the response of the STAR*D investigators to a reanalysis of STAR*D data by Ed Pigott and colleagues, which told of how the STAR*D investigators violated the protocol in various ways to inflate the reported remission rate, “remain entirely insufficient.” They write: It is our opinion that the importance of STAR*D and its ramifications for the field of psychiatry are too serious to be dismissed.

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Szasz and the Liberation of the “Mental Patient”

Mad in America

O ne of the most important elements of the Szaszian worldview is that liberty and responsibility are two sides of the same coin. His writings are clear that with the liberation of the mental “patient” should come responsibility for his or her actions, reactions, productivity, failings, and crimes. This manifested most clearly in Szasz’s opposition not only to civil commitment, but to the insanity defense as well.