From: Mike Wiliams [jmicha5...@aol.com]
Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2011 2:25 AM
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
Subject: [tips] CHRONICLE: Are Psychiatric Medications Making Us Sicker?
>There is no evidence placebos have a biological basis. They represent
>cognition working
the literature a bit more carefully you will find
numerous examples of studies that take patient expectations into account. It is
not as rare as you seem to think it is.
-Don.
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From: Mike Wiliams
Date: Wednesday, September 21, 2011 1:06 am
Subject: Re:[tips] CHRON
Hello All.
I guess I should respond to Scott's comments point by point.
Mike, I had thought your very point was because most studies of
antidepressants aren't conducted in a strictly double-blind fashion
(because of medication side effects...although you didn't address active
placebo stud
There's one additional issue I don't think anyone has yet touched on.
When we talk about efficacy of a medication, we should ask from whose
point of view.
What a patient wants to know is: will this anti-depressant medication
help me? If the alternative is no treatment, then anti-depressants
cl
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> From: Brandon, Paul K [mailto:paul.bran...@mnsu.edu]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2011 11:51 AM
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>
> Scott--
> I think t
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From: Brandon, Paul K [mailto:paul.bran...@mnsu.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2011 11:51 AM
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
Subject: Re: [tips] CHRONICLE: Are Psychiatric Medications Making Us Sicker?
Scott--
I think that Mike Williams
Scott--
I think that Mike Williams' point is (at least it should be) that we should
assume that a treatment is not effective until it has been proven to be
effective. In the case of psychiatric treatment, this is a high hurdle because
of the difficulty of carrying out a double blind (or even si
On Sep 20, 2011, at 4:20 AM, Lilienfeld, Scott O wrote:
> I had thought your very point...
By the way, I wasn't trying to re-start the conversation by sending this
article. I expected, based on my experience with previous work by Horgan, that
this article was not going to be a well-reasoned on
rom: Lilienfeld, Scott O [slil...@emory.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2011 4:20 AM
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
Subject: RE: [tips] CHRONICLE: Are Psychiatric Medications Making Us Sicker?
Mike Williams wrote that "The other medications, including all the
antidepressant
Well said, Scott. A very balanced viewpoint, supported by many of us.
Dap Louw
Dap Louw, Ph.D.(Psych.), Ph.D. (Crim.)
Head: Centre for Psychology and the Law
Senior Professor: Department of Psychology
University of the
Mike Williams wrote that "The other medications, including all the
antidepressants, have no
treatment effect." Mike later says, when describing the effecs of such
medicatiions, that "there is nothing there."
Mike, I had thought your very point was because most studies of
antidepressants ar
Sorry computer told me my first message didn't go through--not mean to
send two about Hedge's book, really.
Joan
jwarm...@oakton.edu
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I would highly recommend the recent book by Marilyn Hedge, Suffer the
Children, a family therapist who has extensive experience illustrating how
working with family dynamics is very effective at helping children with
behavioral disorders and that labeling and prescribing drugs is not. It's
a very
I highly recommend the book, _Suffer the Children_ by Marilyn Wedge. It
was one of the most disturbing as well as inspiring books I have read
this year--disturbing as I had no idea how common it has become for
psychiatrists to prescribe very strong sedatives for young children with
behavioral
I highly recommend the book, _Suffer the Children_ by Marilyn Wedge. It
was one of the most disturbing as well as inspiring books I have read
this year--disturbing as I had no idea how common it has become for
psychiatrists to prescribe very strong sedatives for young children with
behavioral
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