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Arts/Healing / Medical Culture/Politics

ADHD Medications: Good For Big Pharma, Not For Kids

We’re revisiting a past article by Dr. Allen Frances, a prominent psychiatric “insider” who now spends his time railing against the overprescribing of psychiatric medications. Here he talks about the New York Times article which connected the proliferation of “ADHD” in kids to the profiteering by the drug companies. This is a wake up call to parents and professionals alike. Frances says, “as it stands now, we are doing an uncontrolled experiment on our kids with no clue about the long term effects of the meds on their brains and behavior.”

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A Crazy Solution For Depression

Depression is not a straightforward problem; it typically doesn’t yield to straightforward solutions. Here Dave consults on a case of an elderly depressed woman. His seemingly crazy intervention brings surprising results. Enjoy.

Case Stories / Dave Keith

A Little Girl With Bipolar “Deserves” A Trial of Lithium

This is a Two-Part Post: Dave:  This illustration gives a picture of how the use of a psychiatric diagnosis and

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Dave Keith / Medical Culture/Politics

A New Understanding of Emotional Distress

Our current cultural model for conditions like anxiety and depression uses language like “chemical imbalance”, implying that suffering is related to our brain chemistry. In this post, Dave Keith offers another perspective that looks at our moods as dynamic states related to the context of our living patterns.

Case Stories / Dave Keith

Out of the Darkness: Therapy For A Depressed Young Woman

In this post, Dave shares his clinical story about a young woman with severe depression and her recovery, without the use of medications. It again reminds us about the power of relationship, and the power of creative caring.

Case Stories / Dave Keith / Medical Culture/Politics

ADHD Diagnosis Conceals the Family Story

Good physicians take a clinical history in the interest of arriving at a diagnosis. While the clinical history is a review of ‘facts’, there are in fact, few ‘facts’ about human experience. Different examiners will get different histories depending upon what they ask about. Different family members give different reports of the same set of events. In my view clinical histories are a form of fiction pretending to be ‘objective’.

Arts/Healing / Dave Keith / Medical Culture/Politics

Therapeutic Psychiatrist: What Do I Think I Am Doing?

Dave offers his reflections about what it’s like to be a psychiatrist disguised as a family therapist. Hint: The language is different, and no medications required

Arts/Healing / Dave Keith / Medical Culture/Politics

The Importance Of Conversations About Living

Dave: Our blog is set up to provide alternative ways of thinking about emotional, behavioral, mental, psychiatric problems. We are

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