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The Editorial Demise of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics Is Bad News For Us All

Mad in America

However, I knew from my research for my first book, Mad in America, which was published in 2002, that the chemical imbalance story, while being actively told to the public, was belied by the science. In 2006, it published perhaps the first report of patients suffering from post-SSRI-sexual-dysfunction (PSSD.)

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Self Stolen: How ECT Fried My Brain

Mad in America

A traumatic brain injury in 2002 didn’t help anything. I attended the University of Colorado and studied Aerospace Engineering, and most importantly at the time, I ski raced. I struggled despite all my efforts, struggled greatly.

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Tips for Estimating Power in Complex Statistical Models

Association for Psychological Science (APS)

And Muthn and Muthn (2002) have outlined Mplus methods for power estimation, as long as you can write the program to analyze your data in Mplus. Alternatively, WebPower (Zhang & Yuan, 2018) lets you do the same, as long as you can guesstimate the underlying covariance matrix. These are valuable tools that we should learn to use.

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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 16: Is There Any Future for Psychiatry? (Part Three)

Mad in America

209,640 Lundbeck patented the active half of citalopram (Celexa or Cipramil) before the patent ran out and called the rejuvenated drug escitalopram (Cipralex or Lexapro), which it launched in 2002. 639 Psychiatrists are also “educated” with industry’s hospitality more often than any other specialty.

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Bad Science Revisited: “The Bell Curve” Turns 30

Mad in America

Blacks of 2002 would have outscored U.S. Moral philosopher and IQ researcher James Flynn called the world’s attention to the fact that, due to these gains, IQ test creators periodically revise their tests to make them more difficult. They do so to maintain a mean score of 100 and a bell-shaped score distribution. Whites of 1947-48 by 4.3

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Dr. Tom Insel scorns traditional psychotherapy

Reidbord's Reflections

Dr. Tom Insel directed the National Institute for Mental Health (NIMH) from 2002 to 2015. When one of Americas most prominent psychiatrists expresses deep disdain for depth psychotherapy, especially when that criticism is misinformed and hopelessly outdated, it should concern all of us.

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Depression: Psychiatry’s Discredited Theories and Drugs Versus a Sane Model and Approach

Mad in America

In 2002, the Journal of the American Medical Association ( JAMA ) published a study comparing depression remission outcomes of a placebo to the herb St. Later in 2002, a leading researcher of the placebo effect, Irving Kirsch, examined 47 drug company studies on various antidepressants. John’s wort and to Zoloft.