Real Psychiatry

I finished reading a paper last night about estimating the prevalence of depression using the PHQ-9 (1). The paper had 76 authors inc...

I am a long time opponent to the expansion of the collaborative care model and have explained why in earlier posts on this blog.   ...

I was just thinking about the PHQ-9 and it widespread use in managed care as a metric for depression.  The idea that 9 questions are a...

"The bad news - we don't know how to make this diagnosis". I woke up on Monday morning with a 2 inch diameter bright red...

A recent article in the New England Journal of Medicine adds some more epidemiological data to the issue of the treatment of geriatric depre...

There was an opinion piece in the New York Times a few days ago entitled "Psychotherapy's Image Problem" .  The author goes on...

I was inspired by a post by Massimo Pugliucci on his excellent philosophy blog Rationally Speaking , to start using concept mapping software...

I wrote a previous post about the APA backing the so-called collaborative care model and provided a link to the actual diagram about how th...

I caught the link to this fact sheet from President Obama a couple of days ago on the APA's Facebook feed.  In the post immediately be...

I don't know when it happened exactly but if I had to guess it was somewhere in the mid-1990's.  That was the time when quality ch...