- About
- Blogosphere Buzz
- Archived Posts 2007-2008
- Register for Email Alerts
- The Book: Before You Take That Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad For Your Health
- Follow me on twitter @dougbremner
- Subscribe to my podcasts
- Rave Reviews for “The Goose That Laid the Golden Egg: Accutane, the truth that had to be told”
- Follow me on goodreads
- Catania! The movie
Currently viewing the category:
"Psychiatry"
On June 3, 2010, my sister Anne Bremner, an attorney from Seattle, WA, who is a frequent commenter on legal matters on FOX, CNN, and other channels, was side swiped by a car, driven off the road, crashed, and hit her head and suffered a concussion. She was coming from a party where she’d had a [...]
Rebecca Riley is a 4-year-old from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts who was found dead at the foot of her parents bed, covered by only a blanket, in 2007. Rebecca had been “diagnosed” with ADHD and bipolar disorder since the age of 2 and treated with Seroquel (quetiapine), Depakote (valproic acid), and clonidine, none of which [...]
Dan Carlat MD has just come out with a book on American psychiatry that has got a lot of people talking. In Unhinged: The Trouble With Psychiatry – A Doctor’s Revelations About a Profession in Crisis Dr. Carlat describes the practices of the typical psychiatrist. In order to generate the most income, most [...]
That’s right, The Snake Pit. It’s not the freaky mental hospital in the movie “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.” It is the modern American jail, which now holds more mentally ill people than psychiatric hospitals.
I listened to a lecture by Judge Steve Leifman of the Miami-Dade County Court system, who realized [...]
I have written before about the DSM-5 process, including criticisms that the process is not transparent and that it is dominated by psychiatrists with histories of consulting to pharmaceutical companies, and that the process of revising DSM is driven by the royalties that the American Psychiatric Association depends on selling new copies to pay for [...]
Back in 1999 I was asked to write an editorial for the American Journal of Psychiatry about a group of articles in the journal on Acute Stress Disorder (ASD). Prior versions of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) had a PTSD, acute (less than one month) and chronic types. The DSM-IV dropped the acute [...]
We have been following the process of writing the DSM, which will establish the new diagnostic criteria for psychiatric disorders, through the DSM-5 Shadow Team. One of the diagnoses that has been proposed is internet addiction disorder. This is apparently an addition to disorders for addictions to sex, food, gambling, whatever you name it, but we don’t have time to cover everything. Fact is it is pretty hard to know what they are doing as the head of DSM-5, David Kupfer MD, has required all members to sign a nondisclosure agreement and not take any notes. He runs a pretty tight ship.
The behavior of the committee members has gotten pretty mean and nasty, and the DSM Anxiety Disorders, OCD, PTSD and Dissociative Disorders committee retaliated against me for writing about the DSM here. I mean, those dudes are pretty thin skinned. And what would you think about a bunch of guys that signs a confidentiality agreement before they even know what they are getting into?
The work on DSM-5 has, so far, displayed an unhappy combination of soaring ambition and remarkably weak methodology.
More lunacy at the APA meeting this week. Now there is discussion of whether Bipolar Disorder should be re-categorized as a Psychotic Disoder. Well, long term readers of the Drug Safety and Health News will remember my views on Bi-polar Disorder…
20% of Americans found to have inner feelings of emptiness……according to a recent study. Well, maybe not. But if I said that there was a study to show that, you’d probably believe me, right? The fact is that I don’t have any idea how many Americans have an internal feeling of emptiness, but whatever the true number is, it sure as hell is not going to make the front page of the papers, unlike an article like “Bacon Found to Increase Risk of Colon Cancer by 30%”…
Recent Posts
- Only 7 days to go on Kickstarter! campaign for our film Catania! Please help!
- Soldiers, Families, take part in Callaway Homecoming Initiative
- Think Talk Radio: Interview
- Video: Women, Stress & Health Conference at Karolinska Inst.- Heart Disease in Women
- Book Review: Under the House
- Book Review: Falling Women, and Other Stories
- Please Help Our Kickstarter Campaign to Make Our Independent Film Catania!
- Catania! Launches!
- Video: Pilot Program to Help Returning War Veterans Launches at Callaway Gardens
- Callaway Homecoming Initiative (CHI) Launch!
Recent Comments
- Steven Alper on Callaway Homecoming Initiative (CHI) Launch!
- Video: Women, Stress & Health Conference at Karolinska Inst.- Heart - Coronary Heart Disease on Video: Women, Stress & Health Conference at Karolinska Inst.- Heart Disease in Women
- cristeen on More Bullshit Research About a Pill That Will Erase Bad Memories
- Nancy on Accutane and Depression: A Depressing Tale
- lee phillips on Please Help Our Kickstarter Campaign to Make Our Independent Film Catania!
Categories
- academic freedom
- Acne
- ADHD
- Alternative Medicine
- Antibiotics
- Antidepressants
- Antihypertensives
- Antipsychotics
- Anxiety
- Arthritis
- Bipolar Disorder
- Book Reviews
- BPH
- cancer
- Chamber of Horrors
- Childhood mental disorders
- Cholesterol
- CNN, TrueTV, & YouTube
- Continuing Medical Education
- Dementia
- Diabetes
- Diet Pills
- Doctors
- Drug & Alcohol Abuse
- DSM Shadow Team
- Healthcare Politics
- Heart Disease
- Hormone Replacement
- Medications in Children
- Osteoporosis
- pharmaceutical industry
- Podcasts by Doug Bremner MD
- Psychiatry
- PTSD
- Quackery
- Screening & Prevention
- Sexual Dysfunction
- Side Effects
- Social Networking
- Statins
- Substance Abuse
- Supplements
- True Crime
- Uncategorized
- Vaccines
- Video segments of Doug Bremner
- Vitamins
- Women's health
Media Blogs
Archives
