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.

Monday, August 31, 2009

Key Opinion Leader Syndrome

I ran across a rather hilarious article from Medical Hypotheses , in which David Healy described "Krapelin-Fraud Syndrome", which ...

Wednesday, July 29, 2009

The Asenapine Chronicles?

I'm not sure what to make of this. A lot of documents have become available on the Shearlings Got Plowed blog, which deal with the new...

Monday, July 20, 2009

Thanks For Your Service, Now Take This Pill

According to a freshly published study, one in five depressed patients receiving services through the VA healthcare system in the United Sta...

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Will Pharma's (Tax) Free Speech Be Limited?

Dan Neil has an absolutely marvelous column in the LA Times about pharma's bitching/moaning regarding increased regulation of its adver...

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Award Winning Journalism (?)

Erroneous reporting wins prestigious award, starring Charles Nemeroff. Oy. Brought to you courtesy of Health Care Renewal . Read the full ...

Friday, June 19, 2009

New American Psychiatric Association Prez: We Want Money

In a recent speech , incoming American Psychiatric Association president Alan Schatzberg was quoted as saying: "As the recent attacks o...

Friday, June 12, 2009

Greedy and Ghostly Scientists

Story one: Zachary Stowe, psychiatrist at Emory University becomes Charles Nemeroff, Jr. Read all about it the Carlat Psychiatry Blog and...

Tuesday, June 09, 2009

Abilify for Depression: Patients Give it an Oh-For-Three

Abilify for depression: you've seen the ads. You've hopefully read this blog ( 1 , 2 ) and the excellent series in the LA Times fr...

Wednesday, June 03, 2009

Pseudoscience, Candy, and Lamar Odom: Brought to you by Daniel Amen

If you follow professional basketball, you've probably noticed that LA Lakers forward Lamar Odom has a well-deserved reputation for inco...

Friday, May 22, 2009

Open Up Yer Wallets

Yeah, I know the economy is in very bad shape and possibly getting worse. But for the kind of fantastic investigative journalism we get fro...

Thursday, May 07, 2009

Phase V, Abilify, and Vanishing Akathisia

If you've been reading about Abilify for depression on this site, you've probably noticed that I've been down on Abilify for cau...

Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Abilify Runs Amok, Runs Stealth Safety Campaign in Medical Journal

Furious Seasons has a rather distressing piece of news from a recent Bristol-Myers Squibb conference call . To sum it up quickly, BMS cla...

Friday, April 17, 2009

David Healy: Marketing, Bipolar, and Biobabble

In an interview with Chrisopher Lane on Psychology Today's blog, David Healy covers the gamut, including the marketing techniques used...

Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Abilify Marketing Blitz: Atypical Antipsychotics Gone Wild

"The results are extremely unimpressive; they just squeak by," says Massachusetts psychiatrist Daniel Carlat, editor of the respec...

Friday, April 03, 2009

Leading Psychiatrist Slammed in Leading Journal

In the latest American Journal of Psychiatry appears a review of Allison Bass's book Side Effects . As many of my readers undoubtedly ...

Wednesday, April 01, 2009

The Vioxx Hit Squad

"We may need to seek them out and destroy them where they live." The words of a Merck employee regarding people who dared to crit...

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

APA Monitor: We Don't Need No Stinking Evidence

The American Psychological Association publishes two monthly publications for members, the well-regarded journal American Psychologist , and...

Friday, March 20, 2009

Seroquel, Haldol, and The Full Court Media Press

I was very pleased to have been acknowledged in a recent story in the St. Paul Pioneer Press . The reporter, Jeremy Olson, wrote the follow...

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Abilify, Depression, and the Memory Hole

The Primary Care Companion to the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry has a piece on Abilify for depression that illustrates many of psychiatry...

Friday, March 06, 2009

Seroquel, Weight Gain, And the Pursuit of GAD and Depression Indications

Jim Edwards at BNET dug through the Seroquel documents and found many instances of AZ employees noting that Seroquel causes weight gain....

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CL Psych: 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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