This is a video I was sent a link to by Laurie Monk (from Truth in Shredding). It’s not a guitar vid, but it is very interesting: It’s a little simplistic (shrinks are bad, mmkay?) and the commenters clearly lack even a basic understanding of the complexities of childhood behaviour and psychiatry’s role, but what...
It’s not just me. Really, it’s not. An article in the October 2010 issue of Australasian Psychiatry By Christopher Ryan, Olav Nielssen, Michael Paton, and Matthew Large has put very nicely the case against risk assessment. The authors use an analogy with the insurance industry (where the practice of risk assessment originated) to illustrate...
As a rule I’m unhappy to accept incomplete remission. I am also frustrated frequently by seeing cases where various of my professional colleagues are clearly much more ready than I to do so. This morning was a good example, as I saw 4 people for whom that has been the case. A couple of them...
Any regular readers – and possibly even casual readers – will have a fair idea of my opinions on the state of psychiatry. If not, a smattering can be found here, a blithering here, and a ranting here. Because our specialty lacks clear and objective markers or mechanisms of disease, we should have been extra...
So, what’s got my knickers in a knot? You might well ask … And I might well answer: Prof. McGorry appears* to lend his support to the Opposition’s damn fool “Mental Health Motion” for increased funding for mental health services nationwide. Hang on (you might say); isn’t that a good thing? (you might ask)....
