Click Here to Read: The New York Times’ Defense of Antidepressants: More misinformation in the Age of Prozac by Robert Whitaker in Mad in America blog in the Psychology Today blogs on July 10, 2011.

Click Here to Read:  Pfizer Pay Largest Fine in U.S. History  on the Monsour Law Firm  website.

Click Here to Read: AstraZeneca Pleads Guilty in Criminal Cancer Medicine Scheme in the New York Times on June 13 2003.

Click Here to Read:  Johnson & Johnson to pay $77 million in fines for bribery by Steve Tarlow on the NewsYType.com website on April 8, 2011.

Click Here to Read: Prescription for disaster: drugs, lies, and greed by By Ellen Ruppel Shell on the Boston.com website on June 8, 2008.

Click Here to Read:  Pharmaceutical Companies-Rotten to the Core
by Philip in Blogroll on May 24, 2010

Click Here to Read: Home-Cooking vs. McDonald’s: Get Yourself a Happier Meal by Todd Essig in Forbes Magazine on July 11, 2011.

Psychiatry, the DSM and the disease concept

There’s been much brouhaha in APA over the DSM 5 Workgroup product. Passionate attacks from DSM IV chair Al Frances, DSM III chair Bob Spitzer. Grumbling from others. Ardent defense from APA top leadership, the President, the Medical Director, the Board. Some accusations imply venality. Why all this? I have a different take. I feel sorry for the DSM V Workgroup and the terrible problem they face. Insoluble? I don’t believe so if we have patience and Continue reading Psychiatry, the DSM and the disease concept by Herb Peyser

Click Here to Read: Mental health experts ask: Will anyone be normal? by Kate Kelland  in the Globe and Mauk on July 27, 2010.

Click Here to Read: Where is its mind? What the battle over the ‘bible’ says about psychiatry by Ian Brown in the Globe and Mail on July 09, 2011.

Click Here to Read: Digital Domain: The Therapist Will See You Now, via the Web By Randall Stross in the New York Times on July 9, 2011.

Click here to Read: Document: The Doctors’ Apology Letter By Courtesy of HMS/MGH in the Harvard Crimson on July 02, 2011.

Click Here to Read:  Joseph Biederman in These Topics in the New York Times on March 20, 2009.

Click Here to Read: Researchers Fail to Reveal Full Drug Pay by Gardiner Harris and Benedict Carey in the New York Times on June 8, 2008.  

Click Here to Read:  1 Boring Old Man’s note on  “Say it straight. . . ”  on the Harvard/Biederman story on his blog on July 5, 2011.

 Click Here to Read: 1 Boring Old Man’s note on Bipolar Kids,  Postscript, detestable?  on the Harvard/Biederman story on his blog on July 3, 2011.

Click Here to Read: Stressed and Depressed, Koreans Avoid Therapy By Mark McDonald in the New York Times on  July 6, 2011.