Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry: A Closer Look

Psychiatric medications, science, marketing, psychiatry in general, and occasionally clinical psychology. Questioning the role of key opinion leaders and the use of "science" to promote commercial ends rather than the needs of people with mental health concerns.

Wednesday, May 30, 2007

Are We Doing Enough?

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Oh, to be a college student again... What -- c'mon, I can't post on the serious stuff all the time.
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Advertising as Education: CME Part Deux

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I had the good fortune to read the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry supplement which featured Dr. Henry Nasrallah (the author) sneaking in so...
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Friday, May 25, 2007

Convenient Honesty and Zoloft

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Recently, a study was published which cast doubt on the efficacy of sertraline (Zoloft) for PTSD, finding that the drug was no better than ...
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Thursday, May 24, 2007

Janssen Survery Part Two

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I posted a while back about Janssen doing some "research" on why people with schizophrenia stop taking their antipsychotic medica...
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Tuesday, May 22, 2007

Pimping One's Blog Or Doing One's Duty?

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I’ll open this post with some context. I really think John Mack has done great work at the Pharma Blogosphere and Pharma Marketing Blog ...
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Friday, May 18, 2007

Looking Under Rocks...

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Ben Hansen, an activist in Michigan , has been busy filing freedom of information act (FOIA) requests regarding the use of psychotropic meds...
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Rost Busts Pfizer... Again and Again and Again

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Rost continues to bring the hammer down on Pfizer. I won't even bother to summarize his work, suffice to say that it involves a combina...

Dr. Pimpington Checks In

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Pharma Giles offers his story of an entirely fictional (wink-wink) academic psychiatrist named Dr. Pimpington. Any parallel between his ch...

The Tobacco Connection

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Lilly is represented by multiple legal firms, one of which is Covington & Burling . Let's think about it -- Lilly is being sued ove...
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The Beehive State Joins the Zyprexa Party

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As pointed out by Ed at Pharmalot , Utah is now added to the list of states suing Lilly over its promotion of Zyprexa. Read some of the sta...
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Thursday, May 17, 2007

Subthreshold Bipolar Disorder: Update

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The internet is abuzz with discussion about subthreshold bipolar disorder. There seem to be two camps forming (with some slight variations ...
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Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Blumsohn is Right On Target

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Attacking the small problems whilst the larger villainy remains uninvestigated and unpunished -- that's what the British regulatory agen...
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Danger Kitty

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In the world of cat poop and schizophrenia , Stephany at Soulful Sepulcher has a post that is very interesting. Say WHA, you may be thinkin...
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Tuesday, May 15, 2007

Time for a New Name DUMBASS-$

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Philip Dawdy at Furious Seasons has started a contest where readers can throw in their bid for naming the newly christened version of bipol...
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Monday, May 14, 2007

Pfizer Girls Got Back

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The first part is okay (the bipolar Krusty is a bit too stereotypical for my liking) but then it gets really funny toward the end. Hat Tip: ...
Friday, May 11, 2007

More on the New Bipolar Disorder

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Philip Dawdy has chimed in smartly on the subthreshold bipolar diagnosis and its implications. Background here and here . Here's one ...
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Subthreshold Bipolar: Media Blitz and Lilly

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I posted in lengthy form yesterday about the newly legitimated "subthreshold" bipolar disorder (hereafter referred to as SBD ) tha...
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A History Lesson

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Aubrey Blumsohn at the Scientific Misconduct Blog has two posts to refresh memories about scientific misconduct and how running up against p...

Who Owns Congress?

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The Senate decided that direct to consumer marketing of drugs is just fine as is after being bought off by the drug industry. The game goes...
Thursday, May 10, 2007

Subthreshold Bipolar: The Giant Sucking Sound

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Just how many people have bipolar disorder AND what is the deal with “subthreshold” bipolar disorder? Research in the latest Archives of G...
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I'm an academic with a respectable amount of clinical experience and no drug industry funding. Given my lack of time, don't expect multiple daily updates. Certain things about clinical psychology, the drug industry, psychiatry, and academics drive me nuts, and you'll probably pick up on these pet peeves before long...
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