Louis Menand on Depression in the New Yorker and Response by Leo Rangell

By Tamar SchwartzMarch 17, 2010 General News, Letters To Editors

Click Here To Read: Head Case: Can psychiatry be a science? by Louis Menand in the New Yorker on March 1, 2010.

Click Here To Read: Letter by Leo Rangell in response to Louis Menand’s New Yorker article.

Letter from Henry J. Friedman to the Wall Street Journal in response to Edward Shorter’s article: “Why Psychiatry Needs Therapy”

By Tamar SchwartzMarch 6, 2010 Letters To Editors

Letter from Henry J. Friedman to the Wall Street Journal on March 5, 2010 in response to Edward Shorter’s article: “Why Psychiatry Needs Therapy,” in the Wall Street Journal on Feb. 27, 2010.

As a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who has worked with a wide range of patients since 1963, I believe it is important to refute Prof. Shorter’s brutal attack on contemporary psychiatry. His views are idiosyncratic, to say the least, reflecting as they do his individual appraisal of the diagnostic manual and current treatments. Continue reading Letter from Henry J. Friedman to the Wall Street Journal in response to Edward Shorter’s article: “Why Psychiatry Needs Therapy”

Letter to the Editor: Narcissism’s Discontents By Henry J. Friedman

By Tamar SchwartzFebruary 21, 2010 Letters To Editors

Click here to Read: Letter to the Editor: Narcissism’s Discontents By Henry J. Friedman and a letter By Gregory Rabassa in the New York Times on February 19, 2010.

Patients and Text Messaging: A Boundary Issue

By Tamar SchwartzNovember 27, 2009 Letters To Editors

Click Here to Read: Patients and Text Messaging: A Boundary Issue: A Letter to The Editor by Geoff Neimark.

This article originally appeared as: Neimark, Geoff (November 2009). Patients and Text Messaging: A Boundary Issue: American Journal of Psychiatry 166:1298-1299 and appears here with all requisite rights and permissions.

For Children of the Recession, the Economy Hits Home, Letter to the Editor by Mark Smaller

By Tamar SchwartzNovember 19, 2009 Letters To Editors

Click Here To Read: For Children of the Recession, the Economy Hits Home, Letter to the Editor by Mark Smaller in the New York Times on November 18, 2009.

Mark D. Smaller

Worrying About the Safety of Beef by Howard Rudominer

By Tamar SchwartzOctober 6, 2009 Letters To Editors

Click Here To Read: Letters: Worrying About the Safety of Beef by Howard Rudominer to the New York Times on October 5, 2009.

Letter to the Editor by Zvi Lothane in response to S. Nassir Ghaemi’s article

By Tamar SchwartzAugust 17, 2009 Letters To Editors

Click Here To Read: The biopsychosocial concept: relic or reality? Letter to the Editor by Zvi Lothane, on July 29, 2009, in response to S. Nassir Ghaemi’s editorial: The rise and fall of the biopsychosocial model in The British Journal of Psychiatry 2009; 195:3-4.

Freud, Like Columbus, Opened a Whole New World

By Tamar SchwartzAugust 17, 2009 Letters To Editors

Click Here To Read: Freud, Like Columbus, Opened a Whole New World by Henry (Zvi) Lothane, M.D. Letter to the Editor of the Wall Street Journal in response to Daniel Akst’s “One Hundred Years of Freud in America” (Taste, Aug. 7). on August 14th, 2009.

Christopher Columbus