Medicine and Society
Notes on the interface of medicine, society, psychiatry and public health
Monday, May 13, 2013
Does DSM-5 Matter? Yes, but not to Psychiatrists.
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It is an open secret that most psychiatrists do not use the DSM. Read the news and you ...
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Wednesday, February 6, 2013
Prescribing Masturbation: An Idea Whose Time Has Come (Again)
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Should vibrators be available on prescription and covered by healthcare plans? Masturbatio...
Thursday, January 17, 2013
The Problem with PTSD
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By wedding traumatic experiences to PTSD we have de-emphasized the role of trauma in other for...
Monday, December 3, 2012
The Denial of Pain and Mortality: Or, the Art of Self-Prescribing and the Philosopher’s Stone
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I couldn’t help but feel that as a physician I had been trained to be an archetypal overreacher l...
Thursday, November 29, 2012
Suckling Pigs, Stray Dogs, and Psychiatric Diagnoses
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By defining the unknown, and classifying psychopathology, we bring an element of knowability t...
Sunday, June 24, 2012
Chemical Imbalances and Other Black Unicorns
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Like a black unicorn we have created a dangerous mythology in promoting the idea mental il...
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Sunday, June 10, 2012
Let's Get This Straight: Homosexuality as a Modern Invention, A Western Disease
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I picked up a copy of the Christian Examiner whilst sitting in a cafe in Pasadena. Photo ...
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