... I think this suggests psychoactive drug studies have more to do with marketing and propaganda than actual science. How do you evaluate an antidepressant,...
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Rob Ryley
rmr7@...
Dec 8, 1999 2:37 am
Originally published in the NY times http://www.nytimes.com Dec 6 1999 By ERICA GOODE By the time most psychiatrists encounter schizophrenia, its symptoms are...
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Rob Ryley
rmr7@...
Dec 8, 1999 2:40 am
Originally published in the NY Times http://www.nytimes.com ... January 21, 1997 Brain-Tied Gene Defect May Explain Why Schizophrenics Hear Voices By DENISE...
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Rob Ryley
rmr7@...
Dec 18, 1999 3:59 am
The Discovery Channel, on December 8 (1999), screened a program called, "The mind of a killer," about Joel Rifkin, a New York mass murderer of prostitutes. ...
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Rob Ryley
rmr7@...
Dec 18, 1999 6:58 am
Pseudoscience in Psychology Newsletter DECEMBER 1999, ISSUE 1 ... In this Issue: *REFLECTIONS: Szasz vs. Torrey Debate and "Is Abstinence the Answer to...
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rmr7@...
Dec 18, 1999 4:12 pm
A post at the request of Stanton Peele ... G. Douglas Talbott (and his partners) lost a $1.3 million civil suit for damages to a former patient (Talbott runs...
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Rob Ryley
rmr7@...
Dec 19, 1999 7:11 pm
Here is an interesting website dealing with a "psychiatric advanced directive" which claims to enable patients to have more control over their treatment. It is...
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Rob Ryley
rmr7@...
Dec 19, 1999 8:13 pm
I am quite familiar with the psychiatric will. I read a version of his Am. Psychologist article in _Lexicon of Lunacy_ While it is a briliant move toward...
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David Herman
daherman@...
Dec 20, 1999 4:19 am
I think Szasz's psychiatric will is valid. His new book FATAL FREEDOM, on suicide, is completely at odds with Kay Redfield Jamison's new book on suicide,...
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Rob Ryley
rmr7@...
Dec 20, 1999 4:42 am
... I definitely think this concept is a step in the right direction, but it would be naive to think that this would solve all of the problems of involuntary...
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David Herman
daherman@...
Dec 20, 1999 7:52 am
I agree with Dr. Szasz that involuntary mental hospitalization is an unqualified evil. But Dr. Szasz was inspired to come up with the psychiatric will after...
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Edward Brown
edwardmbrown1@...
Dec 23, 1999 11:42 pm
I think the reservations expressed about a psychiatric will are well founded. In Rhode Island we have a Mental Health Advocate, that is a lawyer, paid by the...
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Rob Ryley
rmr7@...
Dec 27, 1999 6:11 am
Here is a news item courtesy of the American Occupational Therapy Association: http://www.aota.org/nonmembers/area1/links/link58.asp I hope to post a rebuttal...
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Stanton Peele
speele@...
Dec 27, 1999 2:01 pm
TREATING THE BLUES AWAY Stanton Peele, Ph.D., Esq. The U.S. Surgeon General says we can -- and should -- treat more Americans for mental disorders. But, as in...
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Rob Ryley
rmr7@...
Dec 28, 1999 4:30 am
Earlier, I posted an article about the Surgeon General's report on mental health. As promised, here is my rebuttal. For the complete article: visit ...
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ann roche
a_roche@...
Dec 31, 1999 1:50 am
Hi. Does anyone know of any books which contain information specifically on alternative treatment of so-called manic-depression? Apart from 'Toxic ...
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David Jones-Cook
wdjc@...
Dec 31, 1999 5:46 am
Try "healing the mind the natural way by Pat Lazarus. isbn 0-87477-752-6 ortho molecular medicne ... From: "ann roche" <a_roche@...> To:...
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David H. Chasey
dhchasey@...
Jan 2, 2000 12:36 am
... How about info on depression without the manic? _Spontaneous Healing_, Andrew Weil, MD, page 261. "For depression the best single treatment is vigorous,...
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Rob Ryley
rmr7@...
Jan 3, 2000 4:56 am
Dr. Gutheil, a Harvard University psychiatrist, compares the practice of managed care to the behavior of a pschyopath. Is this true, or is it another example...
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Rob Ryley
rmr7@...
Jan 8, 2000 4:32 pm
Here is the full text of a NY Times article regarding the placebo effect. Remember this when you hear about the next psychiatric wonder drug! I have some...
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Rob Ryley
rmr7@...
Jan 9, 2000 2:54 am
The complete title of the article is: The Placebo Prescription by Margaret Talbot published in the NY Times Sunday Magazine. ...
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Rob Ryley
rmr7@...
Jan 9, 2000 5:22 pm
January 9, 2000 Mental Illness Drives Bodybuilders? Filed at 12:02 p.m. EST By The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- What drives some bodybuilders is a form...
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David H. Chasey
dhchasey@...
Jan 9, 2000 5:39 pm
Rob, You do recognize the condition as legit, right? If so, and if M/H Pros are called in to intervene, what type of "treatment" ought to be developed for such...
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Rob Ryley
rmr7@...
Jan 13, 2000 12:50 am
... Hi David, Sorry for the time lag. To be brief: 1) I don't dispute that people behave in the way the article described. I do, however, question whether it...
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David Jones-Cook
wdjc@...
Jan 13, 2000 2:47 am
OK two many Davids. I had forwarded you an article on some thing from France. your answer matches not the post David Jones-Cook (me) sent ... Send me a million...
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David H. Chasey
dhchasey@...
Jan 13, 2000 3:10 am
Rob, Right, I basically agree with you. It is an odd "condition" -- but actually, you know, all this stuff is individual. Even the concept of a given...
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David H. Chasey
dhchasey@...
Jan 13, 2000 5:04 am
Too many Davids!!! Well, we could take medication for it. :--)) David...
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David Jones-Cook
wdjc@...
Jan 13, 2000 6:13 am
And the one in the article cold just be it, ... Send me a million dollars, now! http://www.gohip.com/bigmoney/ ... From: "David H. Chasey" <dhchasey@...>...
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David Jones-Cook
wdjc@...
Jan 13, 2000 6:20 am
David H the world, in my humble opinion, suffers a severe lack of Davids. Keeping that in mind , the prescrition is medical Marijuana, Daves not home ,man ......
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David H. Chasey
dhchasey@...
Jan 13, 2000 2:45 pm
I could use some input on this self-diagnostic point I have been raising with the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center about the oral facial physiological...
