Real Psychiatry

  I had this letter published today with my co-author Ron Pies, MD. It is basically a rebuttal to a more elaborate article (linked at the t...

This was an actual headline from a local news channel .  Of course the first question is where have they been for the last 30 years?  ...

Hearing “medical model” being used used pejoratively is quite tiresome.  I have heard it used that way for the past thirty years,...

I don't know if you noticed, but it appears that the post cold war era is over.  The Putin appointed head of a Russian news agency  Dmit...

David Healy has what I consider to be inconsistent viewpoints.  I have previously critiqued his viewpoint on the "addictive" quali...

In the 1960's a condition called Quebec beer drinker's cardiomyopathy was described in the medical literature.  Between August 1965...

The latest editorial in the Lancet has an illogical digression.  The brief note starts out by stating that there will soon be a revolution ...

Just when you think that Allen Frances has run out of editorial venues for his anti DSM5 critiques another one pops up.  This time it is i...

Just when you think you have seen it all, you run into an article like this one in The Atlantic .  A psychotherapist with a long antipsychia...