To the Editor:
In NYTimes (2/3/13), you wrote of Richard Fee’s Adderall addiction, the improper prescription of stimulants, and inadequate psychiatric care leading to his substance abuse and death. This tragic story could have been about any psychoactive drug, psychiatric disorder, prescriber or patient. The delivery of psychiatric treatment today has become one of superficial and
Richard Gottlieb
Josephine Wright Continue reading Letter to the Editor by Josephine Wright and Richard Gottlieb
Click Here to Read: Violence and Mental Illness, 2 Letters to the Editor of The New York Times on December 24, 2012.
Psychoanalysis: Letter to Times Literary Supplement by Arnold Goldberg
on December 14, 2012.
Sir, – Andrew Scull’s review of After Freud Left: A century of psychoanalysis in America, edited by John Burnham (November 23), begins with a reference to Freud’s “suicide” and ends with the statement that psychoanalysis has “essentially collapsed”. Most students of the history of psychoanalysis learn Continue reading Letter to Times Literary Supplement by Arnold Goldberg
Click Here to Read: By Jonathan Alpert in The New York Times on April 21, 2012.
Click Here to Read: “We Have Nothing to Fear, But . . . “We have nothing to fear, but…”; Makari on the Anxieties in Today’s NYTimes on this website.
Click Here to Read: Jonathan Alpert’s Mis-Statements, And Possible Misconduct by Todd Essig on the Forbes Magazine website on April 23 2012.
Click Here to Read: Is Quick Therapy the Best Therapy? Letters to the Editor in the New York Times on on April 23, 2012.
Response to “In Therapy Forever: Enough Already,” (NYT 4-22-12)
Nathan Szajnberg MD Managing Editor
Imagine retitling Alpert’s OP-Ed “In Therapy Forever? Enough Already”: into “In Medical Treatment Forever? Enough Already.”
This is not entirely wrong; it simply doesn’t make sense. If medical treatment is for a runny nose, of course medical treatment shouldn’t be forever; any Doc-in-the-box can handle this. If it is for a diplococcal pneumonia, of course Continue reading In Therapy Forever? Enough Already
Click Here to Read: Does psychoanalysis have a valuable place in modern mental health services? no letters by Adrian Salter, Ronald S Doctor, William J. Lang, Francis Dunne, Anuradha Menon, Andrew F Clark, Peter J. Gordon, T.David Simpson and Raymond F Travers on the BMJ website on March 2, 2012.
Adrian Salter
Click Here to Read: ‘Goldilocks’: Balancing learning and self-esteem, Letter to the Editor of the Washington Post by Herbert Gross on January 21, 2012.
Click Here to Read: The article Herbert Gross was respondidng to: In schools, self-esteem boosting is losing favor to rigor, finer-tuned praise By Michael Alison Chandler in the Washington Post on January 15, 2012.
